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Fic, Food, Miscellany
May. 18th, 2010 09:52 pmI love evenings so quiet I can hear the water circulating in the koi pond two houses down.
Once upon a time, there was a lady who made floral and herbal jelly. Really excellent jelly, actually, with a jewel-like clarity and intense flavor. The lady no longer makes the jelly, but her recipes are still available, and I made her Lavender-Glazed Meatballs for dinner tonight. I put in about 25% too much meat, which made for very crumbly balls, but the flavor was perfect. I used to use English lavender from Norfolk exclusively in my cooking, but this time I used some Maui-grown lavender and it turned out fine. That rose-flavored cheesecake is also well worth the effort.
[I hope this doesn't turn into a food blog. That's all I use my Twitter account for as it is.]
So, I finished Chapter Two of "Dark Sun of Desire," aka the Nyna story, and will sit on it for a couple of days. I think I'm getting some idea of where to ultimately go with the story, thank goodness. But the direction it's taking is pretty darned dark; this version of Archanea is clearly a crapsack world, even more so than usual. And that spills over even after the setting shifts to Valencia.
More negotiations tomorrow; the next two days will be long ones, actually, but then I might get out of town for the weekend.
Once upon a time, there was a lady who made floral and herbal jelly. Really excellent jelly, actually, with a jewel-like clarity and intense flavor. The lady no longer makes the jelly, but her recipes are still available, and I made her Lavender-Glazed Meatballs for dinner tonight. I put in about 25% too much meat, which made for very crumbly balls, but the flavor was perfect. I used to use English lavender from Norfolk exclusively in my cooking, but this time I used some Maui-grown lavender and it turned out fine. That rose-flavored cheesecake is also well worth the effort.
[I hope this doesn't turn into a food blog. That's all I use my Twitter account for as it is.]
So, I finished Chapter Two of "Dark Sun of Desire," aka the Nyna story, and will sit on it for a couple of days. I think I'm getting some idea of where to ultimately go with the story, thank goodness. But the direction it's taking is pretty darned dark; this version of Archanea is clearly a crapsack world, even more so than usual. And that spills over even after the setting shifts to Valencia.
More negotiations tomorrow; the next two days will be long ones, actually, but then I might get out of town for the weekend.
