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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Buttermilk Biscuits


These homemade Buttermilk Biscuits are made from scratch and they are absolutely delicious.
This recipe serves 24

INGREDIENTS
* 2 cups flour
* 2 tablespoons baking powder
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon shortening
* 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk
* ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
* ½ cup melted butter 
* butter or jam, for serving 


INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees and grease a 2 inch deep 9x13-inch baking pan.
2. In a medium bowl whisk flour, baking powder, and salt. 
    Add shortening and mix well.
3. Add baking soda to buttermilk. Pour into flour mixture and blend well.
4. Transfer dough to a well-floured surface. Sprinkle dough with flour and knead a few times but do not over work the dough.
5. Roll dough out ½ inch thick. Use a 2-inch round cookie cutter to cut dough into as many circles as possible. (You could also use a jar lid or drinking glass to cut circles).
6. Dip the biscuits in the melted butter, being sure to coat all sides, and place side by side in baking pan. 
    (They should be touching each other).
7. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot with butter and jam.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024

An Event Called Vibration


Kenichi Kanazawa ′′ an event called vibration ′′



Kawagoe City Museum of art

Kawagoe City Art Museum 


KANAZAWA Kenichi


He reates works connect to the sense of sight, hearing, and touch.

His geometrically configured constitutive works are formed by using metals such as iron, stainless steel and aluminum.

He carries exhibitions, performances, workshops in museums and galleries and these include "Fragments of Sound," which discovers new sounds from iron plate that has been melted into an irregular shape and "State of Vibration," using Chladni figures, a physical phenomenon resulting from vibration.


The theme is ′′ Vibration ′′

The physical phenomenon of vibration, ′′ Kula ′′ is the shape of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration of the vibration, and the German scientist about 200 years ago. It is a phenomenon discovered by Max Ernst Chladni.

This time, I want to capture the variation of the kula shape that appears on the symmetric and infinitive iron plate, and the video that applied it, and the mysterious phenomenon of vibration from both sides of science and art.