We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud
August recs update:
unfitforsociety has been updated for August 2014 with 34 recs in 2 fandoms:
* 30 Avengers
* 4 Guardians of the Galaxy
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I recently read on the internet that there is going to be a fifth Tiffany Aching novel. I am mostly excited but also slightly trepidatious, if only because of how awesome the first four are and why mess with that?
Speaking of books, I'm about a third of the way through The Black Count (thumbs up so far!), and am now hoping someone can recommend a good non-fiction overview of the French Revolution/Terror/Napoleon (or one book for each?), since clearly this is yet another era I know only the broadest outlines of. (and much of what I do know is via fiction, at least re: Napoleon.)
Also, I am totally picturing Howard Charles as Alex Dumas in the (hopefully) inevitable miniseries of The Black Count.
I really do need a Musketeers icon or three.
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In my ongoing search for how to make that dream pistachio cake, I found a recipe in the Smitten Kitchen cookbook (reproduced here) that is the same general idea with hazelnut and crepes, except I would just make a regular yellow cake and also substitute pistachio paste for hazelnut paste in the pastry cream. I think it's definitely workable.
Probably not this weekend, though, as I still have to purchase the pistachio paste. I've been thinking a lot about these mini orange & chocolate cheesecakes (mostly because I have four ounces of cream cheese and half a container of ricotta to use up in my fridge), though these raspberry-lemonade bars are also very tempting.
I guess we'll see.
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people have commented there.
unfitforsociety has been updated for August 2014 with 34 recs in 2 fandoms:
* 30 Avengers
* 4 Guardians of the Galaxy
***
I recently read on the internet that there is going to be a fifth Tiffany Aching novel. I am mostly excited but also slightly trepidatious, if only because of how awesome the first four are and why mess with that?
Speaking of books, I'm about a third of the way through The Black Count (thumbs up so far!), and am now hoping someone can recommend a good non-fiction overview of the French Revolution/Terror/Napoleon (or one book for each?), since clearly this is yet another era I know only the broadest outlines of. (and much of what I do know is via fiction, at least re: Napoleon.)
Also, I am totally picturing Howard Charles as Alex Dumas in the (hopefully) inevitable miniseries of The Black Count.
I really do need a Musketeers icon or three.
***
In my ongoing search for how to make that dream pistachio cake, I found a recipe in the Smitten Kitchen cookbook (reproduced here) that is the same general idea with hazelnut and crepes, except I would just make a regular yellow cake and also substitute pistachio paste for hazelnut paste in the pastry cream. I think it's definitely workable.
Probably not this weekend, though, as I still have to purchase the pistachio paste. I've been thinking a lot about these mini orange & chocolate cheesecakes (mostly because I have four ounces of cream cheese and half a container of ricotta to use up in my fridge), though these raspberry-lemonade bars are also very tempting.
I guess we'll see.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/687859.html.
people have commented there.