Fic Update and Food Experiments
Jan. 23rd, 2011 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodel French toast made with leftover chocolate-chunk sourdough is not nearly as nice as it sounds. I mean, it was OK... I used a basic French toast batter recipe and added vanilla, so it tasted all right, but the texture wasn't great. I used the remaining batter to make a sweet omelet, and that was also OK but was definitely a "not waste food" kind of thing instead of "mmm, yummy."
Just in case anyone thinks the stuff that comes out of my kitchen doesn't misfire on a regular basis...
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Yo. Got some tearjerker fic-recs.
A Myrrh & Ephraim piece by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raphien .
An FE6-era Eliwood story featuring Kent/Lyn bysacae .
And, fresh this morning, a Natasha & Knoll story by someone whose nom de web looks trollish but whose reviews have been insightful in the past.
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Since the overall 'fic mood of this weekend appears to be ZOMG depressing, have a side order of this with your angst.
I was researching Scottish and other Celtic recipes in preparation for writing a Tana-centric 'fic called "The Basics of Frelian Cooking, " and I came across one of the most woe-inducing recipes ever, a skimmed-milk and barley-flour concoction known as "Sky Blue and Sinkers"-- a staple for starving Cornish miners and their equally hungry families. Yeah, I'll take Confederate-era wallpaper paste and fried rats over diluted barley gruel.
It was not appropriate at all for the Tana 'fic, but the recipe stuck with me, and I did have a use for it in the end. Horribly depressing things can always find a home in Archanea-fic. At least Caeda's not a total downer on her own.
Just in case anyone thinks the stuff that comes out of my kitchen doesn't misfire on a regular basis...
-x-
Yo. Got some tearjerker fic-recs.
A Myrrh & Ephraim piece by
raphien .An FE6-era Eliwood story featuring Kent/Lyn by
sacae .And, fresh this morning, a Natasha & Knoll story by someone whose nom de web looks trollish but whose reviews have been insightful in the past.
-x-
Since the overall 'fic mood of this weekend appears to be ZOMG depressing, have a side order of this with your angst.
I was researching Scottish and other Celtic recipes in preparation for writing a Tana-centric 'fic called "The Basics of Frelian Cooking, " and I came across one of the most woe-inducing recipes ever, a skimmed-milk and barley-flour concoction known as "Sky Blue and Sinkers"-- a staple for starving Cornish miners and their equally hungry families. Yeah, I'll take Confederate-era wallpaper paste and fried rats over diluted barley gruel.
It was not appropriate at all for the Tana 'fic, but the recipe stuck with me, and I did have a use for it in the end. Horribly depressing things can always find a home in Archanea-fic. At least Caeda's not a total downer on her own.
