The Rabbit Speaks!

[katepufftail]

Tonight I made coq au vin, and it was delicious. It's amazing how tender chicken can become when you cook it in a whole bottle of red wine, but it's the other bits that make the dish: browned pearl onions sauteed in butter, then baked with parsley and thyme; baby mudrooms stir-fried with green onions; bacon that you blanch, and then saute in butter

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[tuftears]

The coq au vin sounds tasty! Way complicated to cook though. -_-

As for a journal... Well, do you have a different persona in mind? Or maybe just go by real name or a nickname?

I'd aim for employability, I figure there's no point in paying a university to get a Master's in English when you can study the classics directly any time you want. You're paying for a certificate that you are edjumacated, essentially, so you can increase your employability.

[katepufftail]

The coq au vin wasn't really that complicated to cook, just time consuming. You make the onions and mushrooms separate and add them to the chicken at the last instance, to keep the flavors distinct.

I do have a different persona in mind for the new journal (it would actually just be a renaming of this one, is all) - well, persona isn't really the right word. Just a different nom de plume. Something more easily associated with 'me'. Not my real name, but a nick name that I go by elsewhere on these interwebs.

As for further education, it's something that I have a love hate relationship with. I like the idea of going learning and getting multiple perspectives on a given topic, but so much of the added baggage that comes along with academic work - most the posing and the BSing - drives me up a wall. So, we'll see what happens. I might give it a miss and become a baker, or something useful. I don't know.

Waugh!

[tuftears]

Yea, I guess I just don't have that many pots and pans and usable kitchen space, so I prefer one-pot meals. ^_^ If I want to sautee things separately, I have to do it ahead of time, then set them to the side, which adds to the total time needed.

So you're going to be a wuf? Nom de (bird's) plume!

I'll argue that night classes and learning just for the sake of learning may be what you want to do.

[ff00ff]

Good to hear from you!

[katepufftail]

It's good to know someone thinks so!