posts are like omnibuses
1) Baked some biscotti yesterday. They turned out well, but it has made me realize that I just don't like biscotti enough to want to go to the effort--and it isn't even that much effort--of baking them. Ah, well, that leaves several thousand other kinds of cookies/biscuits to bake.
2) Also yesterday, used my new soup pot for the first time. I made some chili, because for about two weeks I've been craving it. And not proper Tex-Mex chili, which is made with just meat and chiles and absolutely NOT beans. No, I wanted midwestern chili, made with ground beef and kidney beans and tomatoes, mildly spiced. Like my mom used to make, only better, because my mom wasn't much of a cook really. In the end I did a few slightly fussy things--I used ancho chile powder (because I couldn't find whole dried anchos) and a couple of whole, toasted, soaked, chopped up guajillo chiles, and freshly-ground cumin seed and Mexican oregano, and I added a bit of espresso powder and cocoa powder for depth, and some worcestershire sauce because it needed a certain something, and beans I'd previously cooked and frozen instead of beans from a can--but I got the result I wanted. And now I have lots of leftover chili in the freezer. I like having food in the freezer. Convenient + anxiety-easing.
3) Have finished watching Rejseholdet. Am pleased with highly slash-friendly ending. Am wondering if slashiness was deliberate on writers' part, because WOW. Am amused that around the middle of S3, the cinematographer discovered the blue filter and the whole look of the show changed, and also all the characters started wearing all black all the time. Still recommend it to those who like police drama, strong m/m slashiness, nuanced female characters, and strong female friendship with slashy potential; all previous caveats apply, however.
Definitely requesting it for Yuletide.
4) Two of my Yuletide nominations (Grantchester and The Thrilling Adventure Hour) have been approved. Still waiting on approval of the Bake Off.
5) Speaking of the Bake Off, I'm very happy with the finalist line-up of Ian, Nadiya and Tamal. No matter what happens, an excellent baker will win. I can't help supporting Ian, especially since he's gotten a fair amount of undeserved hate. But now Tamal has come out, and my heart is torn between the guy I have the slashy daydreams about and the guy who is actually gay. Then again it would also be nice if Nadiya won. Can't they all win, please?
I think I'm going to end up requesting gen in this fandom for Yuletide, because I know it would be bad form to ask for Paul/Ian. Not so much because someone might not want to write it--I always give gen options in my request anyway--but because Yuletide is so public and RPS about someone who isn't a professional entertainer or other public figure is so sketchy. I do have several gen ideas I'd be happy with, fortunately.
(I still might write some Paul/Ian myself, locked to protected the innocent. But the idea has transformed in my head from a cracky PWP into this long involved thing about internalized homophobia and coming out and divorce and tabloid media and how baking is actually Serious and Meaningful, and I'm scared of it now.)
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2) Also yesterday, used my new soup pot for the first time. I made some chili, because for about two weeks I've been craving it. And not proper Tex-Mex chili, which is made with just meat and chiles and absolutely NOT beans. No, I wanted midwestern chili, made with ground beef and kidney beans and tomatoes, mildly spiced. Like my mom used to make, only better, because my mom wasn't much of a cook really. In the end I did a few slightly fussy things--I used ancho chile powder (because I couldn't find whole dried anchos) and a couple of whole, toasted, soaked, chopped up guajillo chiles, and freshly-ground cumin seed and Mexican oregano, and I added a bit of espresso powder and cocoa powder for depth, and some worcestershire sauce because it needed a certain something, and beans I'd previously cooked and frozen instead of beans from a can--but I got the result I wanted. And now I have lots of leftover chili in the freezer. I like having food in the freezer. Convenient + anxiety-easing.
3) Have finished watching Rejseholdet. Am pleased with highly slash-friendly ending. Am wondering if slashiness was deliberate on writers' part, because WOW. Am amused that around the middle of S3, the cinematographer discovered the blue filter and the whole look of the show changed, and also all the characters started wearing all black all the time. Still recommend it to those who like police drama, strong m/m slashiness, nuanced female characters, and strong female friendship with slashy potential; all previous caveats apply, however.
Definitely requesting it for Yuletide.
4) Two of my Yuletide nominations (Grantchester and The Thrilling Adventure Hour) have been approved. Still waiting on approval of the Bake Off.
5) Speaking of the Bake Off, I'm very happy with the finalist line-up of Ian, Nadiya and Tamal. No matter what happens, an excellent baker will win. I can't help supporting Ian, especially since he's gotten a fair amount of undeserved hate. But now Tamal has come out, and my heart is torn between the guy I have the slashy daydreams about and the guy who is actually gay. Then again it would also be nice if Nadiya won. Can't they all win, please?
I think I'm going to end up requesting gen in this fandom for Yuletide, because I know it would be bad form to ask for Paul/Ian. Not so much because someone might not want to write it--I always give gen options in my request anyway--but because Yuletide is so public and RPS about someone who isn't a professional entertainer or other public figure is so sketchy. I do have several gen ideas I'd be happy with, fortunately.
(I still might write some Paul/Ian myself, locked to protected the innocent. But the idea has transformed in my head from a cracky PWP into this long involved thing about internalized homophobia and coming out and divorce and tabloid media and how baking is actually Serious and Meaningful, and I'm scared of it now.)
Crossposted at Dreamwidth (
comments); you can comment here or there.