First of all, if you like the Avengers at ALL, and you need a good laugh, you need to read this fic, by scifigirl47:

Phil Coulson Does Not Bake (and The Avengers Do Not Shop At IKEA Anymore)Summary ( Read more... )

Or, more accurately, summer food prep, as I tried to use the stove as little as possible. Because it's going to be beastly hot all week, and I don't want to cook at all, and I suspect I will barely want to eat. Having cold food around already prepared should counter that somewhat. I already had some homemade hummus in the fridge. But that wasn't ( Read more... )

  Being A Research Project In Period Foodstuffs, And Totally Not A Way To Avoid Writing

Currently, in my WIP, Archie is introducing Horatio to Lady Clarke, his Aunt Sophia, his mother's sister, who raised him from the time he was orphaned at the age of five. It's not long after The Frogs and the Lobsters, so call it 1798. This was several decades ( Read more... )

A recipe ( Read more... )

Out of all the eight nights of Hanukkah, there were only two this year when all three of us would be in the house: last Thursday, and tonight. I didn't have the energy on Thursday, so I made our annual latke feast tonight ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner:

1 blob pizza dough, stretched and covered with
Two large spoonfuls of onion marmalade and
A whole bunch of feta cheese crumbles

baked for 20 minutes at 450F.

eternaleponine was doubtful, even though it's pretty much the same construct as the Trader Joe's onion and feta hors d'oeuvres puffs she adores, only pizza instead of phyllo. ( Read more... )

I figured I'd write this down, in case someone else needs to make gravy suitable for vegetarians ( Read more... )

I only worked one day this week. It was kind of harrowing, because the kitchen was down three people, and I'd never been there before, and three different people telling me (conflicting) things to do, but the highlight was that I got to invent a tofu salad ( Read more... )