Class or Challenge Title: Arithmancy
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Gnocchi
Brief Description: I’ve wanted to try out home made gnocchi for a few years, it was finally time so when I boiled some potatoes I made extra. It might be a little hard to see but I made groves and ridges in the gnocchi using a fork. Once they were boiled I added them in a pan with garlic and thyme browned butter. Now that I know I like gnocchi, and my son loves them, I’m going to look into a gnocchi board.
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Class or Challenge Title: Charms
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Fake frosted window
Brief Description: I like townhouses, except that on my street I feel there are too many who walk past my house, and the neighbours are too close. I don’t want to have the curtains closed all the time, or blinds, and I certainly don’t want to waste my time on silicone things that are attached with water, or even the tape kind. I remembered my mother-in-law linking me an article about using sour milk (not milk that has gone bad), and after some googling I found out that people have also used yogurt.
Anyway, I had some paint rollers, and some yogurt, and decided to try it. I wanted to make it a little more fun and so used tape to make the pattern, before I painted with the yogurt. Once it was dry I removed the tape, and now I’m left with a really cool pattern on the window.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention, stash
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link:Cheesy mashed sweet potato cakes andenglish muffin
Brief Description: After making the sweet potato kibbeh I still had a lot of potatoes left, and decided then to make cheesy mashed sweet cakes. My cakes was half kibbeh leftovers and half plain mashed sweet potatoes, and I added cheeses and panko and fried them.
I’ve also wanted to try making English muffins, because I’ve never tried them, neither have I seen them, and I thought it would go well with the cakes, which for me it did. I added a picture of the English breakfast muffin with sweet potato cake, which sadly is buried under the egg and beans (I didn’t realise this until I looked at the picture).
All ingredients are from my stash.
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Class or Challenge Title: Hagrid’s 12 Christmas Angel Challenge
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Sweet potato kibbeh
Brief Description:: My mom has always been there for me, and I doubt it will change anytime soon. She’s coming around to help me organise stuff in my house some more, so I can get it back into shape, and doesn’t want anything in return, ok, she won’t say no to dinner and dessert. I found a recipe for some Sweet potato kibbeh, because I needed to use the sweet potatoes I had, and decided to try making it. I love this dish, it’s so going into my recipe box. I didn’t have bulgur so I used cucscus, other than that it’s pretty similar to the original recipe. So I prepared this for her visit that will go as a side with some other food I haven’t decided on yet.
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Class or Challenge Title: Hagrid’s 12 Christmas Star Challenge
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Miniature potion books
Brief Description: I love working with miniatures, it’s one of my better skills I think, and while these are a little too large for my dollhouse bookshelf I had fun binding these cute books together.
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Class or Challenge Title: Hagrid’s 12 Christmas ribbon Challenge
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Homemade coffee liqeur
Brief Description: I came across some recipes that use coffee liqueur, but looking at the price of coffee liqueur was enough to put me off the thought of making those recipes. Then I wondered if it’s possible to make your own, and it is. I used this recipe as the base (https://www.thespruceeats.com/homemade-coffee-liqueur-766126), but having seen other recipes I decided to tweak it slightly. I swapped half the sugar with brown sugar, and about half of the rum was vodka (because I didn’t have enough rum as I’ve used most of the bottle to make vanilla essence). Because I don’t drink alcohol I decided to add the alcohol to the mixture as soon as the sugar had melted, hoping it would reduce the amount of alcohol. I loved the end result, it’s quite like a syrup, but sadly there is little coffee taste, so I would have added more had I known that.
The first recipe I saw with coffee liqueur was a Marengue and ice cream cake with chocolate sauce, the recipe I found is in Norwegian, luckily for me they added the source and so I found out that it’s a Nigella recipe, who actually have it from someone else! While this project is only for the sauce it will tie the ice cake and sauce together.
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Class or Challenge Title: Hagrid’s 12 Christmas Tinsel Challenge
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Gold striped earrings
Brief Description: I was having some fun with paint, and decided to make a few earrings as well, but only the paper was a little boring so I added some fake gold stripes which I think works well with the colours, and when the light hits them right they glisten really pretty.
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Class or Challenge Title: Hagrid’s 12 Christmas Trees Baubles Challenge
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: "Overhaul of drawer chest
Brief Description: While I was married most of the furniture were dark, I was never a fan of that, being single shouldn’t stop me from switching them out, but I’m also out of a job so that won’t happen anytime soon. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean I can’t spend a little money and upgrade it, so I found some copper contact paper that matches the stripes in my living room and I think the drawers look great, it lightens the corner far more. Copper is a favourite colour for me, and the striped fronts are so me, it fits the room well as one of the walls in the room have huge painted copper stripes on it.
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And I hope you let us know how it works out! And if you decide to make a pattern or not 
End of Term Feast 
Slytherin: 4 students, 1560 points , for an average of 390 points per student.
I am new to the HPC and haven’t been on craftster (as it was called) for a very long time either (I’ve forgotten my username on craftster now). As you can see - I forgot all about this challenge too 