Feeding the Muses

[emilybored]

Okay, do your writing muses (fandom or original fic) have their own eating habits? Because mine do, sometimes get obsessed with very specific food things, which then wind up part of my diet in order to write (currently, blood orange sorbet is figuring heavily

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[emilybored]

Fucking fantastic.
The steak has to be really really rare or it doesn't work (for me anyway) -- but if you do it right, it's a really good combination of crunchy and soft and spicey and mellow.

[neo_nym]

[emilybored]

I just wrote it, in the story (you'll see, it's DA chapter 15), like out of my head and was like, "hrmmm, I think that would be very good". It's based vaguely on a thai salad I once had which is seared beef, over crunchy sprouts, with lime and hot pepper, but it was just like one of those things, and then I went to the grocery store so I could be sure it worked in RL.

[neo_nym]

[emilybored]

I don't really cook with recipes, so I'm not sure I can make this precise enough to be useful.

Steak:
Get a very thin one -- like a shoulder round sandwhich steak cut. Put about a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan, drop the steak in, sear it quickly, so that that outside is cooked, but the inside should still be plenty rare. Take it out -- pat off the excess oil, add a bit of sea salt if you're like that, and let it find room temperature.

Salad:
Mesclun greens I think are best.
You could probably add bean sprouts and hearts of palm and keep the texture the same if it suited you.

Dressing:
Probably a couple of table spoons of olive oil (extra virgin, the green stuff), the juice of one lemon, and hot pepper oil (tabasco would probably work too) to taste.

Put meat on top of greens.
Drizzle dressing over the whole thing.
Add pomegranate seeds and walnuts over top (they have to go on after the dressing or the dressing just totally overwhelms their taste).
Chill the whole thing.

Should be cold, crisp, tangy and spicey.

[neo_nym]