Vienna Photos May 28, 2020

These Photos are from my trip to Vienna way back in 2016.

Museum of History

Museum of Nature

These two buildings are the museums of history (above) and nature (below). I caught them at a particularly picturesque moment.

Statue in a Park

Plaza Statue

Various Pies and Cakes

Museum of Nature Closeup

Capitol Building

Plaza Statue

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Chocolate Chip Cookies May 25, 2020
This site doesn't make money, so let's go straight to the recipe.

Instructions

  • Take 2 sticks of butter out of the fridge
  • Chop up 1 cup of walnuts
  • In a bowl outside of the mixer, mix:
    • 2 cups flour
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • 1 tsp salt
  • In a stand mixer mix:
    • 2 sticks of butter
    • ¾ cup white sugar
    • ¾ cup brown sugar
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • Add 2 eggs, 1 at a time to stand mixer
  • Add in flour mixture
  • Add morsels:
    • 1 cup chopped walnuts
    • 2 cups chocolate chips
  • Optional: Refrigerate for 20 minutes
  • Pre-heat oven on bake to 375°F
  • For tablespoon sized cookies, bake 9 to 11 minutes

Cookie Closeup

I believe I’m obligated to include a story with this:

This recipe was recommended to us by a friend, but it’s essentially the Nestle Toll House recipe with some very small modifications and notes that we’ve come up with after making it numerous times. We’ve also found it to be way easier use a miniature ice cream scoop to make the balls of cookie dough.

These cookies come out a little crunchier than the standard, if you want a slightly more cakey version, add an extra ¼ cup flour.

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Wyoming Photos May 23, 2020

Photos taken from our trip to Wyoming and Colorado

Rock Collection

Old Fashioned Espresso Machine

Cafe Hanging Lamp

Disused Wagon

Barn Window

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Toronto Photos Jan 27, 2020

Photos from around Toronto that I took in 2019.

The Toronto Skyline

Turtle

Clocktower at Old City Hall

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Chromecast Photos 2019 Sep 23, 2019

These photos of mine were featured in the 2019 set of Chromecast photos, you may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver.

CN Tower

This is CN Tower, it’s in Toronto, and is easily the most iconic feature of that city’s skyline.

Arithmatica

This is a sort of mechanical calulator at the Museum of Art in Vienna.

The Wine Barrel below is from Picchetti Winery in Northern California.

Wine Cask

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