Fic Update and Food Experiments

[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 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.

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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.

Comments

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Chocolate chunk. . . sourdough? This seems like an odd combination to begin with.

Nah, it's good. I dunno if you've ever had San Francisco sourdough, which is way sour (and excellent), but most sourdough breads are mild in comparison. I love non-SF sourdough with strawberry jam. This bakery claims they can make "real" SF sourdough (nope!), but the Chocolate Sourdough is just about perfect. For chocolate-filled bread, anyway.

A-and, stop making me like Marth, man.

I am to Marth as you are to Ephraim, heh. Totally obsessed and biased. ;)

[raphiael]

I haven't had it, no -- hardly popular in middle-of-nowhere, Massachusetts XD But the regular stuff. . hm, maybe I could see that. I think it might just be the chocolate+bread thing that throws me off, despite effectively living on Nutella these days.

I'd probably like him better on my own if playing the game wasn't comparable to taking a cheese grater to my face, at the moment =__=