"I'm an excellent cook. Well, in theory. I've done a lot of eating."

[cesario]

This week I've made a bride and groom doll set, two tea cozies, two batches of soup and two batches of gingerbread. I kind of love domestic. Except when I don't. Mostly I like it for impressing people, and having really good food to eat, and making money. I think I might do a food thing some time this year before the holidays are over wherein I

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[cesario]

It's in the air! Darkness and judgement and...soup.

You know, I have never had curry anything in my whole life.

[tudorpot]

If you like curry soups, try this one- I used pumpkin, but any squash would do. http://tudorpot.livejournal.com/64181.html I like to use the separate curry spice ingredients, rather than curry powder, but it would work with curry powder, just not have the same intensity.
I love Harrods - when I had a chance I used to go there and buy goodies. Chimney pot pie- yum
The hamper idea is good.

[darchildre]

i also suck with a rolling pin but i have discovered something fairly exciting that works pretty well for me. if you put the dough between two sheets of wax or parchment paper and then use the rolling pin on top of the paper, the dough doesn't stick and you don't need the flour.

if you do make gingerbread cybermen, there will have to be pictures.

[cesario]

This is a useful suggestion! I will attempt it in that manner!

If the Cybergingers happen, I will absolutely take pictures.

[darchildre]

good luck!

[hamalkah]

Damn it, you took my awesome rolling pin suggestion!

(I can also attest to its brilliance...sigh...)

[rj_anderson]

I fail at being a good Christian, plainly, because my favorite kind of gingerbread is the really thick cakey kind with hot lemon sauce drizzled all over it mmmmmmm *slavers* I have this awesome recipe for Orient Hotel Gingerbread and nobody in the house loves it except me, wah.

Next best are chewy molasses cookies. Crisp, hard gingerbread is blech, as far as I'm concerned.

I like the hamper idea.

[cesario]

No, not crispy gingerbread---flat, chewy gingerbread, a la a molasses cookie is the thing. Crispy gingerbread is only good if it's a Moravian Ginger Cookie.

And obviously I have never had proper cakey gingerbread because GYAAAHHHH. Lemon sauce? SOLD.

The hamper idea should totally happen.

Um, also, the sharing of this gingerbread recipe should happen? Plz?

(Incidentally, the recipe I gave you yesterday is the one that FAILED.)

[rj_anderson]

ORIENT HOTEL GINGERBREAD (makes 10-12 servings)

This is one of the easiest yet most gingery gingerbreads either. It's also a favorite of guests at the Orient Hotel.

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup fancy molasses
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup softened butter
2 eggs
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp baking soda
icing sugar (for dusting)

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Stir together flour, sugar, molasses, water, butter, eggs, cinnamon and ginger in a large bowl until smooth. Dissolve baking soda in a little hot water and stir into batter. Spoon into pan. Bake for 45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Let cool slightly in pan, then dust with icing sugar and cut into squares.

Warm lemon sauce also a good option -- I don't have a special recipe for this, but it should be readily available online or in most cookbooks.

YUMMY.

[infiniteviking]

*smiling at your good mood* A parsnip is a root vegetable, and looks like a carrot, except that it's bone white. (Unless I'm mixing it up with the turnip family. *resists urge to Google*)

Coincidentally, my dad just brought home three redcup squash! HOW DID YOU KNOW? :D

[cesario]

All is revealed!

I don't actually know what a redcup squash is, but given the nature of the soup I imagine it would work equally well with any squash-family vegetable. I've been wondering about pumpkin.

[infiniteviking]

Well, that's what he called it. It's, um, squash-like. And orange, And an oblate spheroid *coff coff* er, a somewhat squashed spherical shape. You know, I always thought there was something alien about this type of vegetable....

*saves your recipe to try later*

[cesario]

Actually, it probably would, especially as I prefer the soup a bit sweeter than plain potatoes make it. Plus, the color would be gorgeous. :-D If you try it, do tell me how it comes out.