Month: January 2021

12×9 Sheet Pan Cookie Cake

Posted on by rchapin

This is for a 12×9 inch sheet pan cookie cake.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 TBSP cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 1/4 cups unsalted butter
  • 1 cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 TBSP vanilla extract

If you have a stand mixer this is much easier, but if all you have is a hand mixer that will work too.

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F
  2. Line the sheet pan with parchment paper
  3. Cream the butter
  4. Mix the sugar into the creamed butter
  5. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well
  6. Mix the flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt
  7. Add the flour slowly, mixing it into the butter/sugar mix
  8. Mix n the chocolate chips
  9. Press the dough into the pan, but don’t pack it too tightly. Ensure that you make it an even layer.
  10. Bake it on the center rack for about 15 minutes. Rotate it about one half way through so that it will cook evenly.
  11. Turn on the broiler and watch it very carefully. You’ll want to take it out as soon as you start to see it browning on the surface. Leave it too long and you can easily burn it. Most likely, less than 1 minute.
  12. Let cool to room temp and then decorate.
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[SOLVED] Unable to Sign-In to Gmail with Thunderbird with OAuth2, Keeps Asking for Email or Phone Over and Over

Posted on by rchapin

If you are setting up Thunderbird to use your Gmail account you may find that when Thunderbird opens a new window to a Google web portal into which you are to provide your email address and password that it will keep asking you over and over again for your email and never enable to you to enter the password.

This occurs when Thunderbird’s privacy settings do not allow it to store cookies.

First, ensure that your gmail account has Allow insecure apps off. Unfortunately, it may take some time for this setting to propagate to your account.

Than, go to Preferences > Privacy and under Web Content check the Accept cookies from sites checkbox.

Return to your account settings when when prompted you should now be able to enter your credentials to grant Thunderbird access to your account.

How to Find Ingested Foreign Objects in Poop

Posted on by rchapin

Admittedly, not the most savory subject. But, for those of us with pets and/or children it is sometimes a necessity to try to find a previously ingested foreign object in feces to make sure that it does not cause medical problems in the person or animal that has accidentally eaten it.

Recently, we thought our dog had eaten a relatively small magnet and figured that we would have to be checking his feces over the next few days to ensure that he passed it. I’ve not had to do this before and off the top of my head I didn’t know the best way to go about it. Turning to the Internet, all of the searches with the exact same title as this blog article turned up other articles about how long things take to move through the digestive tract. That you should call your Dr. or Vet. But nothing that specifically said how to actually search for the object in the offending matter.

Eventually, I found a blog posting on some dog owner site with a very good suggestion and here is what I did.

  1. Collect the feces as you normally would in a poop bag and bring it home.
  2. Cut open the bag and dump it in a quart sized or bigger ziplock freezer bag. The bigger the bag (to a point) the better.
  3. Shake the feces to the bottom of the bag and lay it flat on your driveway, sidewalk, or similarly hard surface outside. Doing it outside makes clean-up much easier if the bag develops a rip.
  4. Squeeze as much air out of the bag as possible while smooshing the feces out such that it is transformed into a thin layer inside the bag.
  5. While doing so, you will easily find all but the smallest of objects just by feeling it through the bag without getting your hands dirty.
  6. Once you identify it, you can either retrieve it from the bag and clean it off, or just toss it knowing that your child/pet has passed the item safely.
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