Portuguese Cookies

Portuguese Cookies
by Hugo Dos Santos

Portuguese cuisine it’s prosperous…very rich…you are going to eat a lot.

One of the ingredients that we use the most is eggs, and you probably are asking “Why eggs?’.

Between the 18th and 19th centuries, Portugal was the main egg producer in Europe (possibly in the world). Most of its production had a certain destination: to supply egg whites for use in the manufacturing activity. Egg whites were used as a purifying element in the manufacture of white wine and, mainly, to iron the clothes of the rich and elegant of the western world.

With so many whites to be exported, Portugal had to use yolks that exceeded by large tons every year. In the farms and creations maintained by the Church, in the monasteries, and, mainly, in the convents that spread by the hundreds in the interior of the country, the gem was the main source of food for the creations of pigs and other animals, which in turn were the main source of food. source of food for monks, nuns, and villagers in the vicinity.

So these cookies you will find everywhere, bakeries, markets, supermarkets.

Ingredients:

1+1/2 cups of flour
1 cup of White Sugar
60 g butter at room temperature
1 cup of milk
4 tsp of yeast
2 eggs
Zest of 1 lemon
1 pinch of salt
1 tsp of cinnamon

Combine all ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon.

Let the dough rest for about 1 hour covered with a cloth.

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Line the tray with parchment paper.
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Spread small amounts of dough (1 dessert spoon) away from each other.

Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes(starting being gold) at 390°F.
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Let cool and serve.
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Marion says:

Soooo, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one! A dear family friend is playing chess with Dad 3 times a week. They often wear hats, and always have a great time. My Dad has the board set up hours before Peter gets there. I tried this on Wed but I had some issues with my camera, and although it came out ok I wanted to try again. Peter is a great sport and brought props including the fake mustache. Dad's hats are handmade felted hats that a friend makes. I removed a sky light and a light fixture that were annoying. I couldn't decide whether to submit the unfiltered version or this one. Dad looked at them both and said this was a much better photo! Lol!

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Beckie says:

Pitchfork S'mores. I rarely compose setup photos. But this week, I decided to give it a try. I placed large marshmallows on the tines on a pitchfork and burned them. Then, I inserted matches into each marshmallow and lit them as fast as I could. I took the photo at night in my garage and tried to just use the light from the matches, but ended up using a small flashlight off the side. The background is graham crackers that I shot as a texture. Before I blended the two photos, I used a radial blur filter on the crackcers (PS). I used the Overlay blending mode for the composite montage (PS).. No significant edits in LRC. My inital plan was to have a background/texture of fire, but couldn't figure out how to safely do that.

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Helen says:

Such a perfectly timed theme, the local Ginger Factory has installed this art project, by Sophy Blake, which is so photogenic. I think business is booming as a result. I drove there for the photo and left with a bag of candied ginger and a jar of ginger marmalade! Edits in phone.

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Ricky says:

I'm working on a quilt that has a multitude of these primary colors. So I took my fabrics and fanned them for the first picture. I tried to overlay several various pictures to overlay and I ended up using a photo of a little quilt that I did years ago as and tribute to my dad. I turned that image to black-and-white so it wouldn’t affect the color when blending. Then I used Image Blender and superimpose both photos together. I wish that the violet was stronger but alas this is the best I could make it happen on my phone

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Ricky says:

Thanks to Hugo for once again being a good sport. I sure wish I could have set this up in our historical fort saloon, but my bedroom had to suffice. Ignore the level or blinds, please. Since I decided to have overlapping elements, the editing was a bit more challenging, but it turned out okay I think. I think this is "Read 'em and Weep, Fellas"

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Love is Love by Ricky Tims
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Love is Love is the most unexpected quilt and pattern I’ve ever created. It happened when two significant events collided. June is the month for LGBTQ awareness and the perfect time for sharing this quilt and the story behind it. Many of you will remember the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre that occurred on June 12, 2016 where a gunman took the lives of 49 souls and wounded 53 others. For me, that day married triumph and tragedy. You see, I had become a huge fan of Hamilton (the musical). I was so inspired by the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda that I wanted to go to NYC and see him and the original cast before they left the show. On June 6, 2016, I did. Six days later I was back in Colorado and I was excited about the Tony awards which were to take place on the evening of June 12, 2016. Hamilton was the projected favorite to win Best Musical. I woke up that morning to the news of the shooting in Orlando. It was such a shock—numbing. I wondered how it might affect the Tony awards, which would surely proceed as planned, but the mood would, no doubt, be somber.

Lin Manuel’s acceptance speech for Best Musical was poignant. It ended with this…

"This show is proof that history remembers. We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers. Remembrances that hope and love live longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside."

I was so moved by the words that night that I immediately designed Love is Love fabric and made it available for sale on Spoonflower.com. I ordered my own yardage, and when it arrived, I felt strongly that I needed to use it somehow in a quilt. I had little time, so I decided on big chucks. The diamonds of a Lone Star seemed reasonable. As I moved forward, it (the quilt) was begging for another round of diamonds to become a Broken Star. The quilt then pleaded for appliqué with the words, LOVE IS LOVE - and those became the feathery appliqué. The pattern is available. The Love is Love fabric is only available from www.spoonflower.com.

The fabric sales allowed me to contribute to the LGBTQ community and to help raise awareness... that love is love is love is love is love and cannot be killed or swept aside.

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Bruce says:

Last years spring crop in the background that is just about ripe and small bud of a winter variety that has just come up. They should do well this spring if we can keep them watered and the grasshoppers don't get them like they did two years ago. All the Harleys were killed in the late frost we had 3 weeks ago. But, like the Denver Broncos always say... "Wait till next year!"

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Janice says:

I thought I would like using the dreamscape technique with flowers – and I do – but I found that I especially like it applied to structures like nest boxes and buildings. Softening the texture while keeping the lines of the shape is really appealing to me. This nest box is one of several used every year by Tree Swallows. Later in the summer, the fields are filled with lovely pink Joe Pye Weed but right now there is only a hint of the beauty to come.

Basic edits in LR, no cropping. In PS, used a Gaussian blur layer of 110 pixels, multiply blending, followed by adjusting the levels of the flattened image.

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Victoria says:

In the Forest, looking up…

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Ricky says:

I first took a photo of Hugo posed similar to this - then I found a clip art photo of a lumberjack. In photoshop, I brought both photos in on separate layers, and scaled/distorted the clip art lumberjack layer to "fit" over Hugo (because their bodies had to be the same proportions). Then I printed the cartoon lumberjack and cut out the white part of the paper leaving only the part I'm holding (and cutting off the head and arms.) Then I could hold the paper in front of Hugo and they would "fit" in the forced perspective image

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Featured Quilt: Viva Violetta

Viva Violetta by Ricky Tims

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This Rhapsody-style quilt celebrates the color purple - or rather, violet. It features whimsical flowers and flowing curves. It’s also one of the few Rhapsody quilt patterns that I have. These quilts feature soft curved pieced units that have appliqué motifs exploding in a somewhat kaleidoscopic way. This quilt measures 58” x 58” so it is a great quilt to cut your teeth on if you want to try exploring Ricky’s Rhapsody-style quilts. Although they don’t use straight seams, squares, or triangles (which are common in quilting), they are actually easier to put together than most traditional quilting methods.

There are no longer kits available for this quilt, but you have the flexibility to choose your own colors and fabrics. The pattern is available here:

https://www.rickytims.com/online-store/patterns/viva-violetta-pattern

Due to the large size of the Rhapsody quilt patterns, they are printed on-demand and do cost more than typical quilt patterns. The result is well worth the investment.

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