Pancake Balls and Path of Radiance
Jun. 6th, 2010 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelI got suckered into the current aebelskiver/apfelskifer trend a while back, when Williams-Sonoma first began carrying a 'skiver pan and touting "cherry-filled ricotta pancakes" in their recipes section. The combination of cherries and ricotta is something I can't resist, so I bought the pan... and stuck it in a closet for a couple of years. Well, now we're in business; I made savory aebelskivers filled with cubes of high-quality imported Gouda cheese this morning, and once I ran out of cheese I put dollops of lemon curd in the final batch. The pancake balls turn out beautifully shaped if NOT filled; filling them with sweet stuff results in leakage and caramelization of the filling about 50% of the time. Clearly I need to improve my technique... and my speed. These little suckers cook fast-- you'd better know what you want to put in them and have the filling ready to dole out before you start cooking.
Also, I can't find my DS charger right now, so the urge to get deeper into FE7 will not be satisfied at present (I never did have a GBA, though my excellent spouse has three or four of them... somewhere). So I finally popped in Path of Radiance to tide me over; my spouse actually decided to make a communal event of it and took up the controller himself to find out what this Fire Emblem mania of mine is about. He managed to kill Boyd in the first chapter. :)
We played through the second chapter without Boyd and decided not to save, so now I get to go back and play those chapters again. First reactions? 3D battle is kind of weird and distracting-- the bad dudes in the first two levels looked awfully close to ethnic caricatures. I'm used to the mooks being dark-skinned, disfigured, and ugly, but these mooks made me pretty uncomfortable. Also, the way the horses move is just plain ungainly. As far as characters go, Titania seems pretty cool, and Oscar and Rhys are likable. Ike is about what I expected based on his overexposure via certain other games, and Boyd-Mist-and-Rolf are irritating as hell. Seriously, I was half inclined to let Boyd just stay dead. Looks like I get Shinon and Gatrie next, and I expect that'll be painful.
Ike levels up like crazy, though. @_@
Also, I can't find my DS charger right now, so the urge to get deeper into FE7 will not be satisfied at present (I never did have a GBA, though my excellent spouse has three or four of them... somewhere). So I finally popped in Path of Radiance to tide me over; my spouse actually decided to make a communal event of it and took up the controller himself to find out what this Fire Emblem mania of mine is about. He managed to kill Boyd in the first chapter. :)
We played through the second chapter without Boyd and decided not to save, so now I get to go back and play those chapters again. First reactions? 3D battle is kind of weird and distracting-- the bad dudes in the first two levels looked awfully close to ethnic caricatures. I'm used to the mooks being dark-skinned, disfigured, and ugly, but these mooks made me pretty uncomfortable. Also, the way the horses move is just plain ungainly. As far as characters go, Titania seems pretty cool, and Oscar and Rhys are likable. Ike is about what I expected based on his overexposure via certain other games, and Boyd-Mist-and-Rolf are irritating as hell. Seriously, I was half inclined to let Boyd just stay dead. Looks like I get Shinon and Gatrie next, and I expect that'll be painful.
Ike levels up like crazy, though. @_@
