Baking is science for hungry people
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nenya_kanadkaAt least according to this Questionable Content apron which I want for Christmas. Mucca has an extremely cute Captain America apron, but sometimes we are in the kitchen at the same time doing floury things. (It also comes as a t-shirt.)
Monday was our first half-anniversary, and she baked (half) a cake and I made dinner. The first time in a while I've attempted Real Food For Several People As A Meal. I tried a really easy but extremely tasty recipe from the Ottolenghi cookbook, involving fennel baked in a dish with crumble and cheese and cherry tomatoes on top. It turned out super well and I would totally make it again. The crumble is actually a sweet topping--the cookbook warns that if you mix it too long it turns into cookie dough, lol--and the combination of sweet and savoury was a kitchen accident that they decided to keep. I think next time I might do it with less sugar and more cheese, but it was really delicious.
Then we both lost at Settlers of Catan to Mucca's mother. (Damn you, Longest Road!)
Have finally gotten into Martha Wells's Raksura books, which Mucca has been trying to hook me on for a year or two. The first one (The Cloud Roads) started out a bit slow but then I devoured the last two-thirds of it and now ship Jade/Moon and Moon/Chime and Indigo Cloud/stability. I'm partway through the second (The Serpent Sea) right now, but have taken a break to go read Zero Sum Game by SL Huang. Which is all about a girl with superpowers in the criminal underworld--but her superpower is math, and there's someone out to get her whose power is mind control! Dun dun dunnnn.
Oh and I finally got around to reading Isabel Kunkle's Hickey of the Beast, a YA novel where the boarding school head's daughter fights vampires (or possibly incubuses). I know the author from Slacktivist in days of yore, and could hear some passages in her patented snark. Highly entertaining.
To-read list includes:
*The Best of Both Worlds by Karen Lord
*a biography of Sally Ride
*A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (first Benjamin January book)
*ever so many Eighth Doctor Adventures novels (still working my way through that long, long list)
*August Moon by Diana Thung, a super cute graphic novel I bought this summer and forgot I had
*the last Bunnicula! book from the library
Oh, and Ancillary Sword! I tore through Ancillary Sword in about 48 hours, and then passed it on to Mucca's dad, who of course had to borrow Ancillary Justice as well to read first. I have a lot of feelings about this one (especially about Lieutenant Tisarwat, and Breq/Mercy of Kalr) and am looking forward to it as a Yuletide fandom.
Classic Who watch is currently up to the first episode of The Curse of Peladon serial. Oh, Jo Grant, you can be queen of Earth any time. <3
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Monday was our first half-anniversary, and she baked (half) a cake and I made dinner. The first time in a while I've attempted Real Food For Several People As A Meal. I tried a really easy but extremely tasty recipe from the Ottolenghi cookbook, involving fennel baked in a dish with crumble and cheese and cherry tomatoes on top. It turned out super well and I would totally make it again. The crumble is actually a sweet topping--the cookbook warns that if you mix it too long it turns into cookie dough, lol--and the combination of sweet and savoury was a kitchen accident that they decided to keep. I think next time I might do it with less sugar and more cheese, but it was really delicious.
Then we both lost at Settlers of Catan to Mucca's mother. (Damn you, Longest Road!)
Have finally gotten into Martha Wells's Raksura books, which Mucca has been trying to hook me on for a year or two. The first one (The Cloud Roads) started out a bit slow but then I devoured the last two-thirds of it and now ship Jade/Moon and Moon/Chime and Indigo Cloud/stability. I'm partway through the second (The Serpent Sea) right now, but have taken a break to go read Zero Sum Game by SL Huang. Which is all about a girl with superpowers in the criminal underworld--but her superpower is math, and there's someone out to get her whose power is mind control! Dun dun dunnnn.
Oh and I finally got around to reading Isabel Kunkle's Hickey of the Beast, a YA novel where the boarding school head's daughter fights vampires (or possibly incubuses). I know the author from Slacktivist in days of yore, and could hear some passages in her patented snark. Highly entertaining.
To-read list includes:
*The Best of Both Worlds by Karen Lord
*a biography of Sally Ride
*A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (first Benjamin January book)
*ever so many Eighth Doctor Adventures novels (still working my way through that long, long list)
*August Moon by Diana Thung, a super cute graphic novel I bought this summer and forgot I had
*the last Bunnicula! book from the library
Oh, and Ancillary Sword! I tore through Ancillary Sword in about 48 hours, and then passed it on to Mucca's dad, who of course had to borrow Ancillary Justice as well to read first. I have a lot of feelings about this one (especially about Lieutenant Tisarwat, and Breq/Mercy of Kalr) and am looking forward to it as a Yuletide fandom.
Classic Who watch is currently up to the first episode of The Curse of Peladon serial. Oh, Jo Grant, you can be queen of Earth any time. <3
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