Sweet Omelets and Such

[mark_asphodel]

So, I'm trying to get a quota of interesting cooking in before I get sent to Vegas.  Yesterday, I harvested some daylily buds and made a stir-fry with lamb, daylily, and fresh mushrooms from the farmers market.  If I'd been feeling more ambitious I'd have made a real nice dish with a ginger-black bean sauce, but bottled sauce did work in a pinch and it was pretty good except for the soggy brown rice.  I am SO switching back to jasmine rice... the brown rice turns out better when I don't follow the directions.

This morning, I decided to offload some of the excess strawberries I bought on Friday (also at the farmers market) in the form of a sweet omelet.  No, not one of those super-fancy fallen-souffle deals; this was more like a flourless crepe, not too sweet and pretty darned tasty.  Warmed, sliced, fresh strawberries are so much nicer than gloppy pie-filling stuff, which I've come to loathe.  

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Yesterday I completed two more must-see goals in the Metro Detroit experience-- a tour of the legendary Rouge Factory and a trip to the top of the Renaissance Center.  Seeing the First Wonder of the Industrialized World gave a huge boost to my inner technology geek (though the official presentations on the tour are whitewashed beyond credibility), while being at the top of the tallest building in Michigan was pretty amazing.  I could see the spoke-like outlay of the city, with the main arteries of Michigan, Jefferson, Woodward, Gratiot, and Grand River spreading out for miles and miles and miles... I swear I could see the city lights of Mount Clemens off in the distance.  We were above helicopters.

Also, while Coach Insignia is a place I'm absolutely going back to for dinner, I'd sure hate to be a paying guest on the night of a wedding reception.  There's nowhere to run from the music.  I'm sure we annoyed people.

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Maybe I'll use the FE big bang as an excuse to finally do steampunk!Archanea, but I'd want a collaborator because I am not doing that on my own.

But that way I can finally get a picture of Merric with goggles.  And Linde.  Steampunk Linde.  Mmm.

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"The Art of Manufacturing" (a short film shown at the Rouge tour) is like Koyaanisqatsi as filmed by Disney.  Makes you wonder what might've happened had Henry Ford and Walt Disney joined forces to create one empire of fantasy Americana.  

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night remains awesome beyond comparison. 

Comments

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Steampunk Archanea sounds ...fun. Goggles!Merric? Linde? Yes pl0x. Does Frey get to be in there, too? :P /shot

Also, that stir fry sounds pretty neat. I'm not a fan of stir-frys but it is intriguing.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Sure, Frey can be in there.

I need to come up with a plot that doesn't rip off Laputa: Castle in the Sky, though.

[raphiael]

Oh snap, that reminds me. I have a rough sketch of goggles!Merric that needs inking and possibly coloring.

Steampunk Archanea. Do want.

SotN is fantastic. As much as I love Soma and the Sorrow games, it really is the best Castlevania I've played. By far.

Brown rice is. . . tricky. I'm sure there's a problem when the Minute stuff tastes better than cooking it traditionally. >>

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Yay, Goggles!Merric.

Steampunk Archanea. Do want.

Maybe I ought to lay out all my thoughts on this one again.

[raphiael]

You should! :3

I'm quite interested, mainly because I feel like you'd give more attention to the details and world, rather than just slapping together FE and sky pirates or somesuch with no care.

Not that there's anything wrong with just chucking gears and airships and things into something, but it's refreshing to see where it all comes from every once in a while.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks.

Well, Macedonian sky pirates is an awfully tempting scenario. :)

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

That omelet sounds fantastic. Or maybe it's jusat my bias for strawberries showing.

Rice is just really, really tricky in general, I've noticed, even if you're really familiar with it. Especially if you're using brown rice--the husks tend to mess things up even if you follow the instructions. (But from what I've seen, sometimes mixing different types of rice together can help; mixing brown and normal white or jasmine rice together usually has great results.)

Steampunk anything, man. Do want.

(Also, your location as "beanbag chair"? That made me smile, not going to lie. :3)

[myaru.livejournal.com]

Macedonian sky pirates?!

;_;

I would offer to collaborate, but I don't know if I'm savvy enough about Archanea OR steampunk. This is nicely topical, though, considering my recent "research" in the genre.

That omelet sounds lovely.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Macedonian sky pirates really would fit.

I actually don't know jack about steampunk beyond the Analytical Machine thing and the fact that I really, really liked Laputa. The fetish side of the genre, like the people I saw walking around after the Expo last month, really kind of alarms me.

But I'm insanely fascinated with 19th century emergent technology, including the electric side of things. Maybe especially the electric side of things.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

I would naturally be interested in reading Steampunk Archanea. :-)

... and I seem to have acquired a SOTN prompt from somewhere ...