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12 really :eek:
Ok I think we will get a food empire build up by mosen's family. There is already a sushi restaurant and there will be a confectionery very soon (TM). :D

I think we can call this uplifting. So my vote goes to mosen, matching the theme perfectly. And while the photo isn't something special, the cake looks fabulous!

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My vote goes to #7 mosen

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#5 nonsuch

Blue, but happy blue!

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Oh s**t! I am too late!

Never mind, I show you anyway, this would have been it!

N900 Fcam
Edited with Darktable. Blues pulled down (!), custom curve, separated exposition on the flowers/central part.

https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...1&d=1588222956

My vote would have gone to catbus btw...

BR

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#9 ste-phan
#7 mosen, the cake is delicious

Some photographs from Fxtec Pro1, flying blind, attached ;-) I do not go outdoors much, though.

Thank you. Best wishes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Per aspera ad astra...

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#6 robthebold

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Maybe too late to enter, but you can vote without posting -- or vice-versa, I suppose.

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Hope not too late time to vote? #5 nonsuch

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Next round coming in after we got following votes:

Nitpicky count considering timeframes:
(Wikiwide voted ste-phan who was a tad too late and second option mosen, catbus voted nonsuch this morning)

4 mosen (pichlo, Fellfrosch, Pentona, Wikiwide )
2 nonsuch (mosen, robthebold)
1 pichlo (chenliangchen)
1 catbus (ric9k)
1 robthebold (kinggo)

And omitting the timeframes we would have:
3 mosen (pichlo, Fellfrosch, Pentona)
3 nonsuch (mosen, robthebold, catbus)
1 pichlo (chenliangchen)
1 catbus (ric9k)
1 robthebold (kinggo)
1 ste-phan (Wikiwide)

I would like to go for 2nd open-count method since i messed the timeframes and now ask nonsuch to find the May theme in the next 2 days.
Only if that does not happen, i am going to ask my daughter to select next month theme :D

Thank you all for participating!

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I m late to the party this month. I would have voted n4 fellfrosch chair and special honor mention to mosen daugther cake.
Now i want to eat a piece of that, care to share the recipe :D ? Im a complete noob at cooking cakes but may try it with my wife help if your daugther share the recipe :)

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Pheeww, that was kind of a bit translation work :D

This month theme is coming in some minutes since nonsuch has not taken the initiative until now.

Line the springform pan with baking paper. For the dough, chop the chocolate coating, cut the butter into pieces and melt both together in a metal bowl over a warm water bath. Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and crumble them finely in it. Mix them with the chocolate butter and spread them with a tablespoon on the bottom of the mould and press them firmly. Spread 150 g raspberries (pat dry well!) on the cake base.

For the topping, soak gelatine in cold water. Puree 100 g raspberries with 25 g icing sugar and pass through a fine sieve. Mix cream cheese and quark with the remaining icing sugar and vanilla until smooth. Heat 1 tbsp. lemon juice in a small pot. Squeeze 2 gelatine leaves dripping wet and dissolve them in it. Stir the raspberry puree into the gelatine.

Heat the rest of the lemon juice in another pot, squeeze out the remaining gelatine soaking wet and dissolve in it. Stir in a little cheese-quark cream, then stir this mixture into the rest of the mixture. Whip the cream until stiff and fold in.

Spread the cheese-quark-cream on the base and smooth it down, spread the liquid raspberry puree in a circle with a spoon and swirl it gently with the cheese mixture with a fork. Chill the cake in the mould for at least 5 hours.

Remove the cheesecake from the mould and decorate with raspberries.

TIP: Passing fruit can be annoying, but the fine fruit pulp is a real treat. It's fun with a Flotte Lotte - just crank it a few times, then annoying pips and the like are a thing of the past.

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Hey thanks for the cake recipe :)

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The great part of TMO is... You can learn how to make a cake here! :D

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Thanks for the votes, folks! Makes me happy.
Thanks for mosen for stepping in, too!
I never thought I'd win, maybe I'd've logged in earlier.
Was very busy with my other computers recently, still am.

And sadly I missed the Koronakatu/kuja mention - according to my filesystem, I took this photo on March 31st already:
https://dt.iki.fi/stuff/forums/bunsen/koronakuja19.jpg
Yes, couldn't resist spicing it up a little :D

So, some of you are just around the corner...?

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I can tell, that an 8 year old can do some cooking as well. Mostly by a cooking book for children, but he's already doing more than just pancakes and crêpes. And my 6yr old is doing muffins and cookies under supervision of me or my wife. They can work with the stove well and need only some help with oven.

And I am late for both, an entry and voting :o

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On the risk of sounding negative towards this touching story, do they learn how to cook real foods apart from the USA culture sweets?
At 6 yrs old I was "forced" to do more kitchen help involving touching (washing single raw ingredients) beyond entertainment cooking.
Appreciate raw single ingredients vs processed and industry packaged is a means of surviving...and an obligation to every parent that has the means.
"Research" shows that early growth years are very important - no surprise here.. ("Missing Microbes" book for example reference for interesting perspectives on why "kids" grow bigger , not better)
That said I liked the Covid cake showing up for its touch of defiance: both of the Covid thing & the need to all over sudden start to think about boosting our immunity after years of neglect and dependence on medicine to fix the problem.. :rolleyes:

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^^^ THIS!

I spent many a summer at my grandparent's place. I grew up in an apartment block in a small town, but my grandparents lived in a house with a huge garden. They had chickens and rabbits and, when I was just a wee squirt, pigs. I picked fresh eggs every morning. I learned how to kill, skin and gut a rabbit. I still have fond memories of those days.

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I saw someone asking on another forum, re covid19 stockpiling: how is it that people buy so much flour? Are they planning to bake cakes all day? :eek:
Some people do not see the ability to cook food from simple, basic ingredients as a basic ("survival") skill anymore.

Then, I'm not sure you meant this, but when I cook with kids I always give them unwashed ingredients. To do it from zero so to speak, washing them first, then cutting etc.

BTW, pancakes are not a "USA culture sweet". Very common all over Europe, and they can be salty, too.
That said, making the batter is only part of the work. Making an actual good pancake from it is a solid achievement for an 8-year-old!

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Since the hoarding topic came up quite often here (at least in small talk), i would like to offer a sane explanation that does not involve stupid selfish fellows as the root cause of things missing in the supermarket.

A well known fact is that people usually spend 1/4 to 1/3 of their time at workplace where they use the sanitary.
During lockdown people s**t at home and even a 1/5 or 1/6 increase of demand in toilet paper made it disappear from the shelfs since it is the single largest item in stores and had a very sophisticated size to demand ratio to not cost too much storage space compared to the low cost/big size.
Granted, at some point when it got obvious there will be a shortage in supply, some people overreacted, but those where not the root cause but a symptom of temporary shortage.

An estimated 40% of meals had been consumed either in restaurants or at workplace offerings.
People still continue to eat for some reason but now have to cook for themselves and get much more stuff per person from supermarkets etc.

Since what you see in shelves is only a small part of "food logistics", i would like to remind that most of our food is on the road in "Just-in-time" Trucks always filled to the brim.
It is just not possible to suddenly have more items in store from one week to the other since there is no additional capacity available to deliver it.

So from my estimate, the missing products where either the most popular (everyone can cook noodles, right) or those with the longest time to replace like flour and yeast. Those have long shelf life and are usually not requested that often.
Now everyone is at home doing cakes :D

And yes, the few idiots with carts filled up with a late giant prepper assortments exist.
But real preppers did help the system because they never had to go out for TP or noodles since even government advice is to have them in stock for 2-4 weeks supply...

Sorry for the long post, but i got especially triggert by my local mayor stating "If anything is missing in the supermarket, it is due to someone having bought more than he/she needed" :mad:
Nooo, it is a systematic effect that no buyer or supplier has a fault in, but politicians not understanding they are not steering a speed boat but a literal oil tank(er).

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a277954b_o.jpg

Since we're on the subject . . . speaking of kids and pasta, here's the kids' creation from today's Cooking with Grandma on Zoom. Yes, I did have to help them drop the spaghetti in the pot and drain the boiling pot afterwards, because I'm not totally sure they're gonna be ready for adulthood. But they mostly handled the dying process themselves. And obnoxiously artificial it is! A rainbow of probably -- but not absolutely certainly -- safe food additives!

Ultimately, the bowl was a melange of melted butter, a few herbs, Parmesan cheese, and a round of microwave reheating for dinner.

And BTW, re: toilet paper . . .

I saw a reporter -- Washington Post, I think -- interviewed about TP shortages in the US. It turns out problems here aren't consumer panic either, but actual circumstances. The institutional market -- businesses, schools, government, etc. -- has a completely separate supply chain from the residential market. Totally separate factories, distributors, etc. Even the packaging is so different that you can't just slipstream product from one chain into another. My wife was shopping at Costco warehouse store (using healthcare worker privilege for fast(er) entry) and found the giant institutional rolls available, but of course not really useful for the home except for respooling on residential sized cores.

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Wow!
Looks like the insides of one of these telekom boxes that used to be on street corners... https://media04.meinbezirk.at/articl...0/350330_L.jpg combined with https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/netw...d-41576740.jpg
:D

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Making an actual good pancake from scratch is a solid achievement for this 50+ years old too! :D

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With these instructions I have made the best pancake I have tasted. https://www.kotikokki.net/reseptit/nayta/574/Maailman paras pannukakku/

Over 9 000 000 views for a finnish page tells something.

For translation:
Vehnäjauho= flower
Leivinjauhe= baking flower
Kananmuna= egg
Suola= salt
Sokeri= sugar
Vaniljasokeri= Vanille sugar
Margariini= butter
Maito= milk

Mix dry stuff, add milk and eggs and soft butter and mix. Spread on baking plate and 1/2h in 200-225 celsius.

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I have heard that some people add flowers to cakes, and it might actually make a great pancake https://previews.123rf.com/images/sh...background.jpg
But for your recipe, I'd translate vehnäjauho to flour, and leivinjauhe to baking powder.

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I see what you did there . . . Homophones are fun!

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My bad. But no point to correct it cause next posts would be pointless.

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I had to google what is a homophone (not a gay phone obviously). But yes, homophones seem to be quite common particularly among native English speaking people, who seem to be less aware of how the words should be written. Finnish language is different because most word are pronounced the same way they are written, and English language feels much different (and more difficult) because of the difference between pronouncing and writing. And as we mostly learn foreign languages in schools by reading and writing them (speaking aloud is too scary), we mostly learn first how to write a word and then try to find out how it should be pronounced. I believe native English speakers learn their language mostly by listening their parents at home instead. But for some reason I find homophones extremely annoying, at least when they are not used just for fun. On biking forums/social media channels so many people talk about brakes as 'breaks', argh it hurts my eyes :D I believe my English is probably much more annoying to read, but somehow this is too important to me :D

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@robtehbold, that was badass mindtrickery. I literally read "I did what you see there" :D

And since language is such a fun, i just discovered a life long misbelief i had.
The main dish paired with Sauerkraut in Germany usually is Kassler meat and i assumed it is called either after the city of Kassel, some butcher who invented the smoking/salting technique or it being derived from the french Cassarol.

But behold, finnish friends, is it korrekt that kassler means pork neck of any type in finnish?

That would be kind of crazy word traveling.

Edit, wow, seems so. The Cassel Butcher was first and it traveled to finnland.

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Now, that sounds weird to any non-native Finnish speaker :D

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The main point is that letters are always pronounced the same way (hmmm. almost always). Finnish O is always o, not like in English O (cow, gold for example, a and o, like we Finns say) :-)

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Good clarification.

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Yes but they are sorted and added one after the other in a manner like (all non-finnish try to pronounce :)):
Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliups eerioppilas
or maybe:
lyijytäytekynä

:D

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Not really. Most (all?) Slavic languages are like that too. Write as you speak.

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And you (the one calling a trout with 4 consonants in a row, pstruh) are right.
But did you ever ask any non-slovak guy to pronounce that right? :p

I did not want to start a language war. And I love to hear Finnish. Just that I have no idea how to speak out any of those words.

Latin and (old) Greek are the same or even the purest ones. And as well German (Hannoveraner) is pretty close to speak-as-you-write.

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I am impressed!

It gets even better. The word for "finger" is only consonants. Not only that, but 4 consecutive consonants in the alphabet: "prst" (there is no Q in the Slovak alphabet) :p

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OK ok, Swedish is also official language in Finland. So many names of streets come from Swedish family names.

I could go and take an official photo with my F(x)tec Pro of this "uplifting" sign to participate this competition :-)

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Oh! My slovak is very rudimentary (counting and understanding menu :p). I did not know that.
But looking up I found that :D

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In my signature the last line is written how a finn would write english the finnish pronunciation way:

"I can code this much: 'Hello world!'".

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Yup, that's a whole sentence made up entirely of consonants ;)

(R and L are special, so-called "syllable-forming" consonants in Slovak. Another example is "vlk" = "a wolf".)

I like how the Cyrillic using languages transliterate English words.
Phonetically. Often to the nearest approximation, if the direct equivalent does not exist.

(Probably Chinese and other non-Latin languages too, but I cannot read those.)

Mind you, English does the same with Russian words. "Soyuz" and "perestroika" are good approximations, but "Gorbachev", and "Kazakhstan" are only so-so.

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Czech is even better. The longest Czech word I can think of that is made entirely of consonants is "scvrnkls". It means, "you shrank".