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Miranda
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Queer Filipinx writer and community arts person based in Western Sydney, Australia. 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈
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5/20: Just a sourdough loaf after a short hiatus. I totally over-proofed it after the cold ferment (hence the shape), but the flavour is good and the crumb wasn't super dense or full of big pockets.
A round, freshly baked sourdough loaf cooling in its baking paper on a baking rack. It's nicely browned, but shaped like a cake.
April 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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4/20: Sourdough dinner rolls. I've made this recipe before, but my digital theremometer made me realise my oven takes way longer than I think to get to temp, so these baked at the wrong temperature.
9 freshly baked dinner rolls in a glass baking dish on a strawberry table cloth. The square rolls are all evenly browned but different sizes.
February 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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3/20: Roasted garlic, parmesan and basil focaccia. I covered it with foil about 20 minutes in because I was worried about burning, and it came out beautifully.
A thin focaccia loaf on a wire rack, dotted with roasted garlic, whole basil leaves and sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
February 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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2/20: This vampiric looking walnut + olive loaf. I turned down the oven temp because it was in a loaf pan instead of a Dutch oven and I think I went too far.
Wrinkly looking olive and walnut sourdough loaf in a black loaf pan. The bread is pale with a few toasted marks from the grill and scary looking Kalamata olive bites peeking out. Slice cross section of the olive and walnut loaf. The balsamic brined Kalamata olives stained some of the bread grey, and you can see walnut chunks in the dough.
January 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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My sourdough starter is named Jeremy. Last year, he spent most of his time languishing in the fridge; I've since moved him to the counter and am trying to treat him better. My goal is to bake at least 20 things with him in 2025. Here's 1/20: sourdough sandwich loaf. 🍞
Photo of a sourdough sandwich bread loaf on a cooking rack. It is lightly browned with a darker domed top. Photo of the interior crumb of a sourdough sandwich loaf. One hand is holding a slice next to the loaf. The crumb is light with small pockets, not too dense.
January 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I don't often have luck with claw machines, but today I was able to bring my boys home.
Two plush toys from a claw machine chilling on a black leather couch. On the left is a larger Hangyadon (Sanrio's fish monster character) plush toy wearing a fish mask and a wide-eyed shocked expression. Besides him is a small purple keychain plush of Badtz-Maru (Sanrio's bad boy penguin character) looking fed up, as usual.
January 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I finally succumbed and subscribed to NYT Cooking so I could make Eric Kim's Cookie Week recipe: lemon and turmeric crinkles. I'm always a sucker for a not-too-sweet baking treat.
Close up of freshly baked lemon turmeric crinkles on two cooling racks. You can see the dark tan of the cookie through the cracks where it's not covered in powdered sugar; that's what makes it a 'crinkle.'
December 14, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Honestly, most of my baking learning could be boiled down to 'be patient, [X] takes more time than you think.'
Anyway my latest attempt at choux pastry. I think I could have whipped it longer + let it bake a little longer.
#mybakinglearning
Homemade gougeres (savoury cheese cream puffs) with a goat cheese filling on a blue plate.
November 17, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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It's wrong, but it tastes fine.
Interior of failed Japanese milk bread that has been ripped in half. It looks similar to a bread roll. You can see a swirl indicating how the dough was initially rolled.
June 7, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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I AM A DUMBASS.

This has been a lesson in dough shaping. #MyBakingLearning
Screenshot from ChainBaker's video How to make Tangzhong Milk Bread without Kneading. On the video four short rolls of dough are nestled in the pan, For comparison: my baked milk bread which looks like two rolled up hotdog buns.
June 7, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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It did not rise enough. It is almost certainly still edible, but I'll have to see when it cools. I knew I should have kept kneading until it passed the window pane test, and this is what I get for laziness. #MyBakingLearning
Baked milk bread, except it didn't rise enough so it is just two... Rolls of pale baked dough next to each other. Welp.
June 7, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Good mail day, courtesy of @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social!
Two plastic packaged comic anthologies, fresh from the mailbox: Smut Peddler Presents My Monster Girlfriend and Smut Peddler X.
May 22, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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Saffron milkcap season is the best. I made a pretty good mushroom and goat cheese tart, but my pie crust shaping continues to need work. #mybakinglearning 🍽️
A photo of a sliced homemade mushroom and goat cheese tart made with foraged saffron milkcaps. You can see the other dishes from lunch (chicken, caramelised onions, bread) in the background.
April 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Anyway, sour cream coffee cake with coconut sugar and latik in the crumb. Modified recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction. #mybakinglearning
A slice of sour cream coffee cake on a small gold and floral tea saucer and a spoon.
April 13, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Made a good chicken pot pie and a decent pie crust for Pi Day! Pretty pleased with how my pie crust has improved over the week. 🍽️ #mybakinglearning
March 14, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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I realised Pi Day is this week, so I gotta do better than my previous pie failure. Got the timing and evenness of the dough correct, and I did a better job making sure the dough didn't get too warm! My crimping still leaves a lot to be desired, but it's a clear improvement. #mybakinglearning
Homemade goat cheese handpie on a dirty baking tray with goat cheese oozing out of the fork-crimped edge.
March 12, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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I have had many pie crust failures, and today my failure is a handpie. My crust is too thick, and I always underestimate how long it takes to bake. The obscene spillage from an unsealed corner is the least of my problems. #mybakinglearning
A homemade hand pie on a dirty baking tray. It's lightly golden with everything but the bagel seasoning on top and melted goat cheese spilling out of an unsealed corner.
March 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Sometimes you dream about a sandwich and you just have to make it. Chicken parmigiana with kimchi on fresh bread.

This is my third baguette + my first time using Practical Kitchen's mini baguette recipe - will definitely be using this recipe again. #mybakinglearning 🍽️
Homemade mini baguette cooling on a rack A chicken parmigiana fresh out of the oven on a baking tray. A kimchi.and chicken parmigiana on a homemade baguette, wrapped in baking paper.
March 1, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Bluesky, I'm using you exclusively to document #mybakinglearning. Second attempt at gougeres. Not great height, but it did produce a decent pocket for filling.

The real victory is that my guests devoured almost all of them before I could take a decent photo. 🍽️
A half-eaten homemade gougere in front of a blue plate. The inside of a homemade gougere with a cream cheese filling held in front of a blue plate.
February 25, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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2024 is going to be my laminated dough year. Hopefully my next batch of biscuits is a little more uniform. 🍽️
Tray of freshly baked laminated biscuits on a baking tray. They are a touch too golden brown and dusted with flaky salt. Some of them have risen beautifully, some of the corner pieces are wonky shapes.
February 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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The end. I did a not terrible job on that Snorlax.
Last page for Hourly Comic Day 2024. One giant panel in black ink. You can see a drawing of my first two guesses in Wordle and a sleeping Snorlax a la Pokemon Sleep. Text: 23:00 - 0:00 - 1:00? Got home v. late and did our word puzzles instead of sleeping right away. My partner & I always so this, and even if we sleep a little too late, it's worth it. I'm finishing this on Feb 2, which is maybe cheating, but this was fun! Maybe my drawings will be better next year lol.
February 2, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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We went to our friend's place for dinner to watch Red Cliff and challenge my knowledge of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I was also introduced to Marry My Husband, and all I want to do today is binge it.
Four panels from my 2024 Hourly Comic Day. Everything is scribbled relatively neatly but poorly. 1.) Just a bug-eyed face of what is meant to be a pretty woman. She is saying: "I'm clumsy and seel REVENGE" and "This is how big my eyes are." Text: 20:00 Everyone at dinner is discussinf Viet and Chinese pronunciation. I'm thinking about Marry My Husband. 2.) A bunch of text bubbles saying Who's that? Over and over again. Text: 21:00 We're watching Red Cliff l, and I clearly know not much about Three Kingdoms. 3.) Side profile of Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) eyeing each other, surrounded by metaphorical feathers. Text; 22:00 Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are IN LOVE & cannot stop eye-fucking each other. 4.) 23:00 A screen with a John Wuu dove and the text: Red Cliff: to be continued. There are two text bubbles: "WHAT?" "I thought you knew?"
February 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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I was out of the house for the rest of the evening yesterday, so I didn't get around to photographing my comics till today. Here is a photo of Mumu and Soybean so you can better appreciate how awful my drawing is.
Four panels from my 2024 Hourly Comic Day. Everything is scribbled relatively neatly but poorly. 1.) A picture of a Nintendo Switch with the words SOON on the screen. Text: 16:00 I'm buying a switch off of FB marketplace, so getting ready for a long drive to pick it up. 2.) A little car on a winding striped road indicating pockets of traffic. A shining M is at the end. Text: 17:00 It's a lot of stop-start traffic. We're meeting @ Maccas. 3.) Two hilariously scribbled cats. One is lying on its side, the other is sitting and staring into your soul. Text: 18:00 Switch secured. Time to pet T&G's cats while waiting for food. Mumu (lying down) has a squished face. Soybean is pretty. 4.) A lumpy mantou bun vs. a shiny perfectly shaped one. I am crying underneath them. Text: 19:00 my mantou are edible and soft, but not as soft & fluffy as the store *bought one. Soybean and Mumu, two beautiful cats on a cat tree. Soybean (left, sitting on a taller part of the tree) is a multi-coloured cat who's named after the different colours of soy products. Mumu is a great striped cat with a squished face looking sad.
February 2, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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It's been a day.

The day continues.
Four panels from my 2024 Hourly Comic Day. Everything is scribbled relatively neatly but poorly. In the back is my water bottle with a sticker with a watermelon that says Free Palestine. 1.) A photo of a coffee cup with a cute Animal Crossing design that says Daily Routine. There's an arrow indicating there's dirty chai in the cup. Text: 12:00 I blinked and an hour went past . 2.) A photo of envelopes surrounded by tears. Text: 13:00 Taking the time to write out personalised emails to Wong and my MP. Are they listening? Or just auto-responding? 3.) A large scribbly thought cloud surrounded by little anxiety demons with angry eyes and horns. I'm typing in front of a computer that says AAAAAAAAHHHH. Text: 14:00 A normal time in my head. 4.) A bowl with liquid and flour mid-pour. Four circles in a rectangle and a sheet over it (it's proofing buns). Text: 15:00 making mantou feeling... Not confident. But they're proofing
February 1, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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Can I draw? No. But I remembered Hourly Comic Day so I'm finally doing it this year.
Four panels from my 2024 Hourly Comic Day. Everything is scribbled relatively neatly but poorly. 1: Drawing of my reflection from bed: Me in bed, holding a square that's the notebook I'm drawing these on, next to an oversized bedside lamp. Text: 12:00AM/0:00 Waiting in bed looking @ myself in the mirror. 2. A split image: one of me in bed saying 'I can sleep in more!". The second me I'm bed staring at my phone, anxiety lines emitting. "Nope." 9:00 3.) A little saucepan with a question mark on it. Text: 10:00. Made tangzhong for mantou today for the first time, but the thermometer needs a battery. No idea if it's right. 4: Drawing of an anxious little blob. Text: 11:00. I've got a lot to do today, but it's also *vitally* important I faff around for an hour. V. important I blob around while trying to figure out what to wear. Time for coffee.
February 1, 2024 at 2:19 AM