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

[raphiael]

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

d-do you really want to spread that package of sad further? I've already made at least one person cry ;^;
On the plus side, I just died of happy over that Knoll & Natasha fic. Especially after the sheer number of terrible Knoll fics posted on the "best of the worst" emblanon thread.

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

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

If you like, I can make you hate him instead. ;-)

[myaru.livejournal.com]

The french toast story is discouraging. That's the first thing I'd thought of to do with that bread besides eating it straight, but I guess warming it in the oven and nomming is what it's best suited for.

Milk and barley gruel sounds awful. I'll take rice gruel over that any day.

Cooking fic for FE has attracted me for ages, and I'm not sure why. For me it was Oscar (FE9) that had the clearest potential, but since we're talking FE8, a feast in Jehanna could be a lot of fun to describe.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Joshua in a chef hat?

[raphiael]

pfff I think I can do that on my own XD

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

Depression and angst? I am so there. 8D

Homework? What homework?

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

I should've just pan-toasted it in butter. We don't have a toaster oven and my husband objects to putting it in a vertical toaster because of the chocolate. But, yeah-- oven-warmed and nommable is the best way to go.

Cooking fic for FE has attracted me for ages, and I'm not sure why.

Well, I was looking up Tana's supports to mine info on Frelia, and her supports with Syrene are all about learning to cook. Of course they don't give any concrete details re: the cuisine, but the idea grabbed me.

[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 =__=