Baking Brad Episode 30

This is episode thirty - 50% of scottish shortbread.

Recipe

• From Homestyle Cookies Muffins & Cakes

Good

• Haven't made many biscuits before
• The recipe didn't fail using 50% of everything

Bad

• A little more crumbly than I hoped
• The recipe could have been a bit sweeter

Ratings

• The Cook - 8/10
• The Taste - 7/10

Ingredients (includes two flours and sugar).

Scottish shortbread.

Baking Brad Episode 29

This is episode twenty nine - chocolate truffle macaroon slice.

Recipe

• From Homestyle Cookies Muffins & Cakes

Good

• Heaps of chocolate
• Heaps of coconut

Bad

• Used light cream instead of whipping cream, probably would have been better whipped
• The top layer was pretty messy

Ratings

• The Cook - 7/10
• The Taste - 10/10

Ingredients.

Chocolate truffle macaroon slice.

Baking Brad Episode 28

This is episode twenty eight - passionfruit marshallow slice (without passionfruit).

Recipe

• From Homestyle Cookies Muffins & Cakes

Good

• A bit more challenging to make
• Haven't cooked with marshmallow before

Bad

• The supermarket didn't sell white marshmallows only
• The top layer was probably too soft without the passionfruit

Ratings

• The Cook - 7/10
• The Taste - 8/10

Base ingredients.

Base layer.

Top ingredients.

Top ingredients again.

Marshmallow slice.

Baking Brad Episode 27

This is episode twenty seven - 75% of a chocolate mousse cake.

Recipe

• Link

Good

• Not too dry
• The cake tin base didn't fall off
• The cake tin didn't overflow

Bad

• Should have made the whole 100%

Ratings

• The Cook - 8/10
• The Taste - 10/10

Base ingredients.

Icing ingredients.

Chocolate mousse cake.

Baking Brad Episode 26

This is episode twenty six - coconut macaroons.

Recipe

• Link

Good

• Couldn't be easier to make
• Great taste

Bad

• The mixture was super sticky

Ratings

• The Cook - 9/10
• The Taste - 9/10

Ingredients.

Coconut macaroons.

Baking Brad Episode 25

This is episode twenty five - mini coconut cupcakes (without the mini).

Recipe

• Link

Good

• As good as the cupcake mix I purchased previously
• Tasty icing

Bad

• Coconut taste could have been stronger
• Only made eight

Ratings

• The Cook - 8/10
• The Taste - 8/10

Cupcake ingredients.

Cupcakes out of the oven.

Icing ingredients.

Coconut cupcakes.

Re-Video Games

This is just another post about the video games I have been playing over the years. I wrote a previous article like this during June 2010. A few observations before the list:

• I again used the xbox achievements to determine which games I was playing and when
• I only went down to the month level - I may have only played games for a few days in a specific month
• There are a lot of gaps between games. I don't really know why the gaps are so small or large in each case, a lot of them do match up with preparing to go on holidays or returning from holidays though. These are the times when I did not play any games at all:
• Most of 2008
• July 2009 to November 2009
• November 2009 to March 2010
• July 2011 to October 2011
• April 2012 to November 2012
• February 2013 to September 2013
• These are the times I went on holiday:
• October-November 2009
• July 2010
• September 2010
• August-September 2011
• October 2012
• August 2013

And here is the list:

2007

• August

• Forza Motorsport 2

• September

• Forza Motorsport 2

• October

• Forza Motorsport 2

• November

• Forza Motorsport 2

• December

• Saints Row (briefly)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (briefly)

2008

• January

• Project Gotham Racing 3

• May

• Grand Theft Auto IV

• August

• Project Gotham Racing 4 (briefly)

• September

• Gears Of War (briefly)

• November

• Saints Row

• December

• Saints Row 2

2009

• January

• Saints Row 2

• Burnout Paradise

• March

• Half-Life 2

• April

• Half-Life 2

• Mass Effect (briefly)

• July

• Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost And Damned (briefly)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 (XBLA) (briefly)

• November

• Forza Motorsport 3

2010

• March

• Mass Effect

• April

• Mass Effect

• May

• Mass Effect (briefly)
• Final Fantasy XIII (briefly)

• June

• Red Dead Redemption
• Bioshock
• Forza Motorsport 3

• July

• Project Gotham Racing 4
• Bioshock 2

• August

• Left 4 Dead
• Gears Of War
• Rockstar Table Tennis
• Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost And Damned
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 (XBLA) (briefly)
• Call Of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare

• September

• Call Of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare
• FIFA 10 (briefly)

• October

• Forza Motorsport 2

• November

• Call Of Duty - World At War
• Viva Pinata
• Lego Batman

• December

• Fallout 3

2011

• January

• Fallout 3

• February

• Gears Of War (briefly)
• Mafia 2

• March

• Mafia 2
• Crackdown
• Project Gotham Racing 4 (briefly)
• Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 2 (briefly)

• April

• Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
• Alan Wake

• May

• Alan Wake
• Portal 2
• Final Fantasy XIII (briefly)

• June

• Final Fantasy XIII

• July

• Final Fantasy XIII

• August

• LA Noire (briefly)

• October

• LA Noire
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 (XBLA)
• NBA JAM - On Fire Arcade (XBLA)
• Forza Motorsport 4

• November

• Forza Motorsport 3
• Forza Motorsport 4
• Forza Motorsport 2 (briefly)
• Saints Row - The Third

• December

• Saints Row - The Third
• Saints Row
• Saints Row 2
• FIFA 10 (briefly)

2012

• January

• Gears Of War
• Fallout - New Vegas

• February

• Fallout - New Vegas (briefly)

• March

• Fallout - New Vegas

• April

• Fallout - New Vegas
• Dead Space (briefly)

• November

• Mass Effect 2

• December

• Mass Effect 2
• Call Of Duty - Black Ops
• Forza Horizon (briefly)

2013

• January

• Forza Horizon
• Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 3 (briefly)

• February

• Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 3

• June

• NBA 2011 (briefly)
• Deux Ex - Human Revolution (briefly)

• September

• Grand Theft Auto IV - The Ballad Of Gay Tony
• Grand Theft Auto V (briefly)

• October

• Grand Theft Auto V

• November

• Grand Theft Auto V (briefly)

• December

• Grand Theft Auto V (briefly)