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inlovewithnight asked for
Top five cookies
Top five pieces of Bandom canon
Gabe/William scenarios
True Pairings
Okay, I don't really have OTPs? Because I am an equal opportunity person who will let people have sex with whomever they wish and it doesn't bother me. I will give you five pairings that I love
sionnain asked for Top five Trucker Songs
live_laugh_love asked for top five cooking instruments
Bonus:
I don't have five top food experiences, but I do have a funny one to tell: One day I was visiting my BFF Lisa in Texas. We went to this fancy breakfast buffet thing and it was delicious. I had a bunch of those little sausage links on my plate, and I went to cut one of them, and part of it flew off. I looked in the direction it went, and there was a guy sitting there, and his pocket was pouched a little, and I couldn't see the sausage anywhere, so I was *convinced* it had gone in his pocket, and he was going to reach for his keys or something and pull out my sausage and I about died laughing. I couldn't even explain to anyone why I was laughing so hard I was crying and not making any noise, because I couldn't breathe. Sadly, in the end, I found my sausage on the floor.
musesfool asked for top five dessert recipes
Cream cheese pound cake
1 ½ cups unsalted butter, room temp
1 pkg cream cheese, room temp
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 - Preheat oven to 350. With electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla. With mixer on low, add flour and salt in two additions, beating until just combined.
2 - Generously coat two loaf pans (or one bundt pan) with cooking spray. Immediately pour batter. Tap pan on work surface to eliminate any large air bubbles
3 - Bake until golden, 60-75 minutes (add 5 minutes for bundt pan).
4 - Cool 10 minutes in pan. Turn out cake/s. Cool completely.
Toffee Blondies
½ cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 cup toffee bits
1 - Preheat oven to 350. Line bottom and sides of 8 inch square pan with aluminum foil with bit of overhang on two sides.
2 - Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, add flour and beat until combined. Stir in toffee bits by hand
3 - Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until golden, 30-35 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely in pan.
Creamy Lemon Squares
20 reduced fat nilla wafers, finely crushed
½ cup flour
¼ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup cold margarine
1 pkg Neufchatel cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp flour
3 tbsp lemon zest
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ tsp baking powder
2 tsp powdered sugar
1 - Heat oven to 350. Line 8 inch square pan with foil, ends folded over sides. Mix wafter crumbs, ½ cup flour and brown sugar in bowl. Cut in margarine with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press onto bottom of prepared pan, bake 15 minutes.
2 - Beat Neufchatel cheese and sugar with mixer until blended. Add eggs and 2 tbsp flour, mix well. Blend in 1 tbsp lemon zest, lemon juice and baking powder. Pour over crust.
3 - Bake 25-28 minutes until center is set. Cool. Refrigerate 2 hours. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and remaining lemon zest.
Caramel pecan cheesecake pie
1 pkg cream cheese softened
½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 unbaked pastry shell (9 in)
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
1 cup caramel ice cream topping
1 - In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, one egg and vanilla until smooth. Spread into pastry shell, sprinkle with pecans.
2 - in a small bowl, whisk remaining eggs. Gradually whisk in caramel topping until blended. Pour over pecans
3 - Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes or until browned. (loosely cover with foil after 20 minutes if pie browns too quickly. Cool on wire rack for one hour. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before slicing
Chocolate Meringue Pie
9 inch pie crust
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp plus 1 tsp cornstarch
1 can evaporated whole milk
3 large eggs separated
3 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 tsp vanilla
1 - Preheat oven to 375. Place pie crust on rimmed baking sheet. Bake until crust is golden, about 20 minutes. Cool completely. Set aside.
2 - Put a fine mesh sieve over a medium bowl, set aside. In medium saucepan, off heat, whisk together 2/3 cup sugar, cocoa powder, flour, and 1 tbsp cornstarch. Gradually whisk in evaporated milk. Whisk in egg yolks.
3 - Place pan over medium heat; whisking constantly. Cook until the first large bubble forms, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low; whisking constantly, cook 1 minute
4 - Immediately pour mixture through prepared sieve into bowl. Stir in butter and vanilla. Pour warm filling into baked crust; cover surface directly with plastic wrap. Chill at least 2 hours and up to 1 day.
5 - Preheat oven to 450. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites, remaining 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tsp cornstarch until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue on top of filling, right up to the edge of the crust. Bake until meringue is lightly browned, 5-7 minutes. Serve immediately.
amberlynne asked for top five times Nate surprised Brad
maurheti asked for top five favorite places
(I love traveling and I want to go lots of places, but I'm always in my own head, so I try to like it there a lot)
merle_p asked for top five pairings that no one else seems to ship
(for varying values of "no one else")
mourning_night asked for
Mikey and/or Gabe fanon
Sadly, I don't know much of bandom's fanon. I have lots of my own though. Heee.
Characters to write
(apparently I am emotionally a teenage boy)
AUs
sparky77 asked for the top five things to do with Jell-O
redheadaholic asked for top five things that most people think are true about you that aren't
sansets asked for top five crossover pairings
I'm not a crossover person, but here's some wacky fun ones!
Top five cookies
- Snickerdoodles
- Ginger snaps (especially iced ones)
- Chocolate chip
- Peanut Butter
- Butterscotch chip
Top five pieces of Bandom canon
- Pete and Gabe are BFF
- Gabe got a 4.0 GPA majoring in philosophy while putting himself through school playing back room poker
- Pete started a label for TAI and GCH - his frieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeends
- Travie is Bronx's godfather
- The Ways LOVE each other SO MUCH
Gabe/William scenarios
- bb!William/Gabe with Gabe as pursuer
- bb!William/Gabe with William as pursuer
- Gabe domming William the *bitchiest* bottom ever
- Gabe as a teacher, William as a student (or vice versa)
- Gabe as a cop, William as a runaway.
True Pairings
Okay, I don't really have OTPs? Because I am an equal opportunity person who will let people have sex with whomever they wish and it doesn't bother me. I will give you five pairings that I love
- Gabe/William
- Pete/Mikey
- Ioan/Matthew
- John/Kevin
- Willow/Xander
sionnain asked for Top five Trucker Songs
- Heathens
- The Company I Keep
- Shut Your Mouth and Get Your Ass on the Plane
- Gravity's Gone
- The Wig He Made Her Wear
live_laugh_love asked for top five cooking instruments
- Bundt cake pan
- Backyard Bug cake pan
- Veggie/etc chopper
- Bendy cutting board of bendyness
- Crockpot
Bonus:
I don't have five top food experiences, but I do have a funny one to tell: One day I was visiting my BFF Lisa in Texas. We went to this fancy breakfast buffet thing and it was delicious. I had a bunch of those little sausage links on my plate, and I went to cut one of them, and part of it flew off. I looked in the direction it went, and there was a guy sitting there, and his pocket was pouched a little, and I couldn't see the sausage anywhere, so I was *convinced* it had gone in his pocket, and he was going to reach for his keys or something and pull out my sausage and I about died laughing. I couldn't even explain to anyone why I was laughing so hard I was crying and not making any noise, because I couldn't breathe. Sadly, in the end, I found my sausage on the floor.
musesfool asked for top five dessert recipes
Cream cheese pound cake
1 ½ cups unsalted butter, room temp
1 pkg cream cheese, room temp
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 - Preheat oven to 350. With electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla. With mixer on low, add flour and salt in two additions, beating until just combined.
2 - Generously coat two loaf pans (or one bundt pan) with cooking spray. Immediately pour batter. Tap pan on work surface to eliminate any large air bubbles
3 - Bake until golden, 60-75 minutes (add 5 minutes for bundt pan).
4 - Cool 10 minutes in pan. Turn out cake/s. Cool completely.
Toffee Blondies
½ cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 cup toffee bits
1 - Preheat oven to 350. Line bottom and sides of 8 inch square pan with aluminum foil with bit of overhang on two sides.
2 - Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, add flour and beat until combined. Stir in toffee bits by hand
3 - Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until golden, 30-35 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely in pan.
Creamy Lemon Squares
20 reduced fat nilla wafers, finely crushed
½ cup flour
¼ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup cold margarine
1 pkg Neufchatel cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp flour
3 tbsp lemon zest
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ tsp baking powder
2 tsp powdered sugar
1 - Heat oven to 350. Line 8 inch square pan with foil, ends folded over sides. Mix wafter crumbs, ½ cup flour and brown sugar in bowl. Cut in margarine with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press onto bottom of prepared pan, bake 15 minutes.
2 - Beat Neufchatel cheese and sugar with mixer until blended. Add eggs and 2 tbsp flour, mix well. Blend in 1 tbsp lemon zest, lemon juice and baking powder. Pour over crust.
3 - Bake 25-28 minutes until center is set. Cool. Refrigerate 2 hours. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and remaining lemon zest.
Caramel pecan cheesecake pie
1 pkg cream cheese softened
½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 unbaked pastry shell (9 in)
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
1 cup caramel ice cream topping
1 - In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, one egg and vanilla until smooth. Spread into pastry shell, sprinkle with pecans.
2 - in a small bowl, whisk remaining eggs. Gradually whisk in caramel topping until blended. Pour over pecans
3 - Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes or until browned. (loosely cover with foil after 20 minutes if pie browns too quickly. Cool on wire rack for one hour. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before slicing
Chocolate Meringue Pie
9 inch pie crust
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp plus 1 tsp cornstarch
1 can evaporated whole milk
3 large eggs separated
3 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 tsp vanilla
1 - Preheat oven to 375. Place pie crust on rimmed baking sheet. Bake until crust is golden, about 20 minutes. Cool completely. Set aside.
2 - Put a fine mesh sieve over a medium bowl, set aside. In medium saucepan, off heat, whisk together 2/3 cup sugar, cocoa powder, flour, and 1 tbsp cornstarch. Gradually whisk in evaporated milk. Whisk in egg yolks.
3 - Place pan over medium heat; whisking constantly. Cook until the first large bubble forms, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low; whisking constantly, cook 1 minute
4 - Immediately pour mixture through prepared sieve into bowl. Stir in butter and vanilla. Pour warm filling into baked crust; cover surface directly with plastic wrap. Chill at least 2 hours and up to 1 day.
5 - Preheat oven to 450. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites, remaining 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tsp cornstarch until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue on top of filling, right up to the edge of the crust. Bake until meringue is lightly browned, 5-7 minutes. Serve immediately.
amberlynne asked for top five times Nate surprised Brad
- When the box showed up in the UK on the first day of Hanukkah, and then a box showed up every day for the next seven days...even when there wasn't delivery service.
- When he opts to stay with CNAS instead of running for office, but only until Brad realizes he's trying to be in a position to actually get stuff done
- When Brad gets home from a mission to North Korea that no one knew about and Nate meets him at the airport
- The night one of his guys pulls Brad's ass out of the shit and he doesn't wake up until Germany and Nate's sitting there in a secret, secured location wearing his pajamas and a fucking preppy Yale sweatshirt.
- Every time Brad wakes up and Nate's really there
maurheti asked for top five favorite places
- Seattle - my city is awesome. You go a half hour east and you're in the mountains, a half hour west and you're at the water. There are tons of things to do and places to see and the weather is usually agreeable and the people are awesome.
- Disneyland - I am the world's biggest kid and love all things magical and Disneyesque. Well, not all things, but most. Disneyland is fun and full of silliness and I get to be a dork without reservation.
- By the water - this is vague, but it's also true. I love water and even being by a stream or a creek or a pond or something is kind of soothing. I've almost always lived near water (given that my dad was in the Navy, this is not shocking) except for when we lived in Texas and in the middle of the Mojave desert. Extremes, don'tcha know.
- Alone - I'm an extrovert by nature, but I have extreme moments of needing to be OMGBYMYSELF. This does not jive well with having children, nor working in an office of 50+ women. Usually I use the internet for this. ::pets it::
- Lost - in a good book or in writing
(I love traveling and I want to go lots of places, but I'm always in my own head, so I try to like it there a lot)
merle_p asked for top five pairings that no one else seems to ship
(for varying values of "no one else")
- Kevin/Robert - Brothers & Sisters
- Horatio/Maria - Horatio Hornblower
- Mikey/William - Bandom
- Doug/Jen - Dawson's Creek
- Laura/Murphy - Remington Steele
mourning_night asked for
Mikey and/or Gabe fanon
Sadly, I don't know much of bandom's fanon. I have lots of my own though. Heee.
Characters to write
- Pete
- Pacey
- Horatio
- Brad
- Kevin
(apparently I am emotionally a teenage boy)
AUs
- SPIES
- Gangsters (OMG GUNS)
- Cops (OMG shoulder holsters for GUNS)
- High school
- The one where girl!Mikey and Gabe are a couple since they were bb!scenesters and maybe have this whole domestic thing. What? DON'T JUDGE ME
sparky77 asked for the top five things to do with Jell-O
- Ice cream Jell-O salad that my mother-in-law makes
- Jell-O shots
- Add tonic water instead of regular water so there are tiny baby bubbles in it
- Hot naked tattooed boys wrestling
- Being afraid to eat it because it is still moving and therefore not dead
redheadaholic asked for top five things that most people think are true about you that aren't
- I'm the nice one (once you get to know me, I will often start conversations with "Can I be a bitch for a minute?")
- I'm very smart (this is actually a myth perpetuated by the fact that I retain a lot of stupid and useless shit in my head, but people sometimes find it impressive)
- I'm very knowledgeable about the sex thing (I'm actually terribly bland and innocent. No. Really. Shut up)
- I look like Angelina Jolie (No, it's only the icon and the name we share) (No, I really do look like her)
- I am very talented (I know I am talented as a writer - I'm not saying I'm not - but I know there are people out there - some of whom are my dear friends - who are WAY more talented than I.)
sansets asked for top five crossover pairings
I'm not a crossover person, but here's some wacky fun ones!
- Faith from Buffy/Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship (via inlovewithnight
- Reporter from Generation Kill/Bailey Quarters from WKRP in Cincinnati
- Xander from Buffy/Jen from Dawson's Creek
- Tim Bayliss from Homicide/Kevin Walker from Brothers & Sisters
- Mary Poppins/The Middleman