All-dressed chips and honey butter chips.

Thanks!

If John Roskopf would be so kind as to share that rosemary shortbread recipe too, I’d be much obliged. :)

Yes, please! I love some pfeffernusse and unfortunately lost my little church recipe book with the good recipe in to a house flood.

All-dressed chips. If only Aldi hadn’t stopped selling them.

Thank you very much for the suggestion! Most of my friends and family are big fans of pumpkin (not just pumpkin spice) so I think this’ll go over really well.

Any suggestions on the best way to make a non-alcoholic version? 

My vote goes to Allison because apple butter is basically the perfect condiment, but shout out to Dennis because I need to try two of the three things on his list. 

Stress cooking.

I’m stress-cooking. I won’t be able to function if I’m not DOING something, and cooking is something I can do without having to interact with the rest of the world. I am, however, focusing on recipes that have a lot of downtime and a lot of flexibility so I’m not losing my shit at a pan of burned cookies at 4 am…

I think it’s cool that they’re trying to branch out from Western European baking; I just wish that they’d actually approach it with more thoughtfulness than they did here. Ultimately it’s just so much wasted potential, a celebration of Japanese baking and confectionary sidelined for stereotypes and complaining about…

Crepe cake isn’t Japanese in and of itself (though crepes are popular there), and making something Japanese by adding matcha when that’s just going to spawn a bunch of complaints about ew having to use this gross foreign ingredient no one likes is what’s really striking me as distasteful.

There’s not a lot of actual Japanese about this week, which is frankly disappointing. GBBO hasn’t always been the best about dealing with non-European foreign cuisine but, uh, kawaii cake? Matcha crepe cake? Really? There’s plenty of traditional and semi-traditional Japanese sweets that could have been explored -…

I found myself once again making fruit butter (pear this time) today, so I’ll probably end up having comfort English muffins for the next few days.

I love Sayonara Wild Hearts. It’s my favorite game that I’ll never play because doing so makes me feel violently ill (and I am not someone who is generally given to photosensitivity). 

I usually end up making soup with any big fall squashes that I get, because it’s easy (my go to recipe is basically chicken stock, roasted squash flesh, and seasonings, heated through until the squash falls apart completely and then blended with a bit of cream until it’s the consistency I like) and it freezes up very…

Welcome, Lillian and Dennis! I’ve really enjoyed both of your writing in the past, and it’ll be lovely to see more of it in the future!

I am a soft horror baby but if you are a) okay with something more bizarre and dreamlike than all out horror and b) don’t mind anime, Satoshi Kon’s Paprika is an excellent movie with an excellent soundtrack. 

I really liked the Sleepy Princess manga so I’ll probably be checking that out. Beyond that... man, I’m sick of idol anime and isekai. 

If they’ve got the consistency of flakes of crayons and taste like fake vanilla, yes.