Three kinds of three kinds of awesome

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Three kinds of excellent soup (that makes a meal in itself) I have made this winter:

• Lamb and Bean Soup with Spinach and Feta
  • Amaze-balls - so rich from such a relatively painless method. I just stirred the spinach into the soup at the last minute. Feta is lovely but optional - it's already very flavourful.
• Nigella Lawson Yellow Split Pea and Frankfurter Soup
  
  • Fabulous. Had to stop self devouring painful amounts. Used skinless franks as I find the red skins too strong-flavoured - but I think they would have blended in enough here to be okay. I didn't bother with the food-processor business, just chopped by hand.
• Pumpkin soup (improvised recipe by me)
  
  • See notes in the source. Toast probably required to make this a meal.

Three kinds of self-saucing pudding I have made this winter:

• Lemon self-saucing pudding
  • Prone to a certain lumpiness, but quite delightful anyway. If you blend cornflour and custard powder into a slurry first with a little lemon juice, then blend in all sauce liquid, then pour over, then the sauce will be smoother. Prone to be sharp, so does need cream/ice cream/custard.
• Butterscotch self-saucing pudding
  
  • Also excellent with chopped dates and pecans in batter. Mild/complex enough to eat without other condiments.
• Elaine's Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
  • Old favourite as previously posted. See notes in the source.

NB these are all Australian recipes, so 1 TB = 4 tsp instead of US or UK 3 tsp

Three items of enjoyable porn I found while surfing the Pon Farr tag on AO3:

• Emergency Sex Pollen Contact
  • Spock/Kirk and others. Pon Farr plus sex pollen. Oh la la.
• You Lied
  • Spock/Kirk. Indulgent possibly dubcon soul-bonding romantic Pon Farr.
• To Want Another
  • Spock/Uhura. Het Pon Farr with D/S overtones.

For the lost: Fanlore page on Pon Farr.

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