Your favorite type of cake is:
Happy Cake Day! Good luck with guitar lessons! Thank you for train!
P.S.: vanilla cake
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Vanilla cake? Is that like a proto-cake, before they add the chocolate? ;)
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Not quite. Vanilla cake have butter cream with vanilla (extract for example) instead chocolate cream. Cake layers have no chocolate but have vanilla too (it could be extract of vanilla or original vanilla or something else). Cake should have lot of cream juicy (I mean not dry). Some receipts include mascarpone or whipped mix of sour cream+cottage cheese (lol, I didn't know how that translate on English before) or apples or little count of nutts. Vanilla cakes are light and could be less sweet than chocolate ones.
Here are some pictures. But it seems those cakes need to have some more cream than they have already.
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I was mostly making a joke - denying the existence of any kind of cake but chocolate - but your description of a cake with lots of butter cream and/or mascarpone filling actually sounds pretty good. Though I bet it would be even better with chocolate cake between those layers of cream. ;)
But light and less sweet sounds ideal. Any cake that I would actually eat would have to be only slightly sweet. I can't stand really sweet stuff, and cakes with sugar cream icing are just gross. Likewise, dark chocolate is the only chocolate I'll eat. I can't even do sweet beverages anymore - I've gotten so used to just drinking water that drinking anything sweet just feels weird. I'll make an exception for orange juice in the mornings, but that's about the only sweet beverage I'll drink on any kind of regular basis. I tried drinking soda recently, and I had to water it down with ice and add bitters to make it palatable. :)
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Oh... lol...
Try check cake based on cottage cheese or cottage cheese+sour cream they are less sweet =3
What's about milk for a morning drink?
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I've never heard of a cottage cheese or cottage cheese / sour cream cake. Unless you're referring to cheesecake made with cottage cheese and sour cream?
And I don't really like milk - except for chocolate milk. :)
I do like orange juice, and I feel it's pretty healthy for me with the vitamin C and D and Calcium (I usually drink OJ fortified with vitamin D and calcium), so it kind of takes the place of milk. I just use milk to eat with cereal - plain Cheerios, in my case. :)
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I just open whole universe in my mind - I understand why cheese cake named this way! Lol. Cottage cheese have different mean in my language (we have special words for each phase of milk products).
Do u make juice from oranges?
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I used to make fresh squeezed orange juice when I lived with my parents and they had a juicer. But now I just buy orange juice at the store - my favorite is the Tropicana Homestyle version with lots of pulp, but I'm okay with medium pulp versions too. Pulp-free tastes / feels weird to me, a little like I'm drinking orange falvored water. But the important part is that it's juice straight from oranges, and not from concentrate - that stuff is terrible, and really is like drinking orange flavored water.
So, cottage cheese in your language isn't this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_cheese ?
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It is. I mean we use for cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream words that aren't close to each other. So, I thought cheese cake based on "cheese" that's why I didn't understand link between "cheese" cake and original "cheese".
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Oh, now I'm confused. Cheesecake is a dessert that mostly consists of a soft cheese, such as cream cheese or ricotta or mascarpone, combined with eggs and sugar and placed in a pie crust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake It's not really a cake at all, but it is delicious.
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Sorry. Yes, but not exactly. It's possible to change classic cream to vanilla cream (that I described early) - we will get vanilla cake in this way. it's main option of vanilla cake.
Other options change or edit filling by something else like mix of sour cream+cottage cheese (like cheese cakes contain) OR mascarpone OR etc...
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Cake-covered trains are the best. Happy ๐day, Timo!
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Nice! Happy cake day! I've been play acoustic guitar myself and I know how much time it consumes if you plan to study music theory.
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Nice!
And yeah, I'm very much a beginner when it comes to theory, so I'm learning to read sheet music while also practicing scales and arpeggios, and it often feels like the accumulation of an overwhelming amount of knowledge. Learning the notes on the fretboard, and learning chords, and learning to read sheet music, and learning to play while looking at the music and not down at my hands? And as if that wasn't enough, now you're giving me chords as sheet music? Like I'm supposed to be able to instantly identify several notes at once and remember where they are on the fretboard, all while looking at the music? What madness is this?! ;)
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My favourite cake is delizia al limone.
I wish you could try it out, it tastes like heaven.
Thank you and happy cakeday to you!
I've studied classical guitar for 3-4 years, before giving up for university reasons :C
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Ooh, that sounds awesome. I wish I could try it too. :)
Is there a good recipe, such that I could try making it myself?
And I would suggest maybe picking up guitar again. I stopped playing too, years ago, because life just got too busy. I just picked it up again a few months ago, and I love it even more than I did before. It's like, "OMG, why have I not been doing this all these years?"
It's like when I went back to my Fallout 3 save, that was 1/3 of the way through the game, after several months off, and I was thinking, "This is so much fun! Why did I ever stop playing this?" ;)
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This is pretty accurate:
https://www.summerinitaly.com/guide/delizie-al-limone
As I'm a little bit lazy, if I don't have time to bake the sponge cake, I buy empty puffs from the bakery and I home make only the two creams to fill and cover them.
I should.
Maybe after my graduation I'll be a little less busy. Yeah, I know that feeling. I play a little bit of "modern songs" right now, but I wish I could go Bach (pun intented) to classical stuff also.
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Cool, thanks for the recipe. I may follow your example and just buy spongecake - it seems like one of those things that's really easy and cheap to buy and comes pretty good from the store, while a pain and relatively expensive to make yourself.
And it's never too late. I find it's a nice way to relax and unwind, while being active and creative. Is Bach your favorite composer?
And happy cake day yourself! :)
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Go for it! I want to know what do you think about it when you try it!
Yesterday I tried with something simple. It was awful, I could even remember where to find the notes on the guitar neck -.-"
Mhhh, I don't think I have a favourite composer (maybe Chopin?) but for guitar I'm madly in love with Barrios and Albeniz.
Thank you ^^
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Haha, I too felt that I had forgotten so much when I picked up my guitar again after years away. Except that I still knew how to play the beginning of Stash purely through muscle memory. But after sticking with it, I found that I had forgotten some bad habits I had years ago and was actually able to play and learn things better than I had in the past.
I haven't heard anything by Barrios or Albeniz, I'll given them a listen.
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Dark chocolate cake. Delicious. Happy cake day timobkg!
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Bump. Thanks for the giveaways and happy cake day!
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Happy cake day! Guitar seems like a fun instrument to pick up, acoustic?
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Electric for me.
My step-father actually got me an acoustic when he heard that I wanted to learn guitar (I think he was of the "you should learn on an acoustic" mindset camp), and I tried to learn on it, but it quickly ended up gathering dust. Partly because it was a cheap acoustic that was really hard to play, and partly because it just didn't sound like how I wanted it to sound.
My mother later got me an electric, and I loved it. Learning guitar actually made me much better at my school instrument, even though I was just teaching myself and not following a course or anything. I'm not sure why I stopped playing years ago - I think life just got too busy - but I dusted it off and picked it up again a few months ago and still love it. This time I'm doing it right and actually taking lessons and following a course. But it often feels like the steady accumulation of a ridiculous amount of knowledge. :)
The only downside is that with limited free time, I now have even less time to play games. ;) Well, that, and electric guitar can get expensive quickly - especially if you start getting into effects. I was fortunate in that I found someone local selling a used modeling amp which has a lot of effects built in, so I can just use the amp instead of having to buy pedals, and very fortunate in that I found my guitar online for 60% off. I've somehow been able to find everything I needed to buy at ridiculous clearance prices, which I'll gladly take. :)
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looks at my own dusty acoustic guitar case A family friend gave it to us but I never picked it up even though I was somewhat interested, I think I was too busy learning a bunch of other instruments at that time.
Oh I didn't know that the amps were so complex, thought that they were just speakers when I saw schoolmates plug them in. A nice instrument definitely makes a difference in sound and how much you enjoy it! Instruments are expensive...
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Haha, so what instruments do you know how to play?
And amplifiers used to be just speakers with tubes or circuits designed to mimic tubes. But now amps are much more versatile, with modeling amps being able to recreate a variety of sounds. I have a Boss Katana which has 4 amp models (plus acoustic), on top of which you can add a variety of effects such as distortion, chorus, flanger, phaser, EQ, etc. You can, for example, with the push of a button go from the clean with lots of chorus sound of the beginning of Metalica's Enter Sandman, straight into the heavy distortion with scooped mids sound of the rest of Enter Sandman that Metallica's known for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384 (Wow, that video is so old, and such a seizure trigger.)
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Proficient in piano, baritone sax, flute, bassoon, guqin( chinese string piano). A tiny bit of trombone and trumpet I learned from friends. After you know how to read scores, then memorize the keys to an instrument, you can practically play any music haha. This was all during school. I haven't touched an instrument for decades.
Convenient technological advances for the electric guitar!
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Wow, that's very impressive! Did you have a favorite instrument?
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I enjoyed playing the baritone saxophone the most, the sounds were fun and it was a refreshing change at the time to play the countermelodies and bass rhythm parts instead of the main melodies all the time. The hardest part of it was lugging it around, it's heavy in the case! (there were wheels on the case but it was a school instrument and the wheels weren't in the best shape so I avoided using them)
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That's pretty cool. And I totally get what you mean about the refreshing change and bass rhythm. One year in school band I was chosen to play the bass drum - we didn't have enough drummers, and I volunteered - and it was really fun. A huge change from playing the flute, but I think that was part of the appeal.
Do you think you might want to get a sax at some point, try playing it again?
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A lot of the appeal for me was playing together in a band to create music, my favourite music is Orchestral music, I have good ears luckily, and love harmonizing sound so I was good at matching tunes around me, playing solo sounds kind of hollow and lonely when practicing so if I were to invest in a barisax which are ~$2k+ I'd also have to look for a group to play with to enjoy it most. I don't have this problem with the piano, and I do have a piano but I haven't touched it in a long time.
Ohh, haha, me too, my band teacher was the one who asked if I wanted to try out the baritone sax to take over someone who graduated, and then the exact same thing the year after that for the bassoon lol.
When you play electric guitar, do you think it would go nicer with some drums accompaniment?
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Oh, wow, I didn't realize they were so expensive.
It's awesome that you have such good ears, and I totally understand wanting to play with others. On the one hand, I'd be slightly nervous about playing with others because I don't think I'm that good. On the other, a drum or bass guitar accompaniment would be awesome. Ten years ago, before I stopped playing guitar, I had a couple friends with whom I would get together every week to play Rock Band (I would usually play drums). When they discovered that I had and played an actual guitar, it inspired one of my friends to get a guitar himself and the other friend to buy a drum set, so I would invite them over so we could jam in my basement. And thus we went from playing toy instruments together in Rock Band to playing real instruments together. It was certainly fun, even if we weren't very good. :)
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Is it my cake day already? Wow, this one really snuck up on me. Time sure does fly.
As I was caught completely by surprise, I am totally not prepared. So please accept this very humble train. In my haste I seem to have gotten cake all over the train and link, but I trust you guys won't mind too much.
Anyway, in the past year I've been really busy, but very fortunate. I've won and played some great games, picked up guitar again and recently started actually taking lessons (which are great, but really make me work), tried to enjoy time with family as much as I can, and try to find time to play games in what little free time I have.
Hope you all have a great weekend. :)
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