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I had a roommate who summed up his detest for liver by saying, "I don't eat anything that secretes"... lol
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I have had enough burgers that secrete sauce not to agree with that sentiment.
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Mmmmm....secretions *Slurp*
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I had to eat a lot of liver because of my persistent anaemia (bleeding for eight days each month is not good) and I didn't like it a lot at first but now I like it.
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Someone just left a Nestle Coffee Crisp bar in the "Free Food" basket in the office break room!
SCORE!!!
I find it hard to believe that anyone would want to discard British chocolate, but I guess there's no accounting for taste!
No, I'm good. :-)
This sounds like an adventure time song... Oh, wait... It could be...
This sounds like an adventure time song... Oh, wait... It could be...
No, I'm good. :-)
That's my jam, dogg!
Bacon pancakes, so epic!
That song (the spanish version, actually) gets stuck into my head from time to time.
Beware! Kileanna's stupid gaming rants coming! I had to write this down just to be able to think it aloud and because it has been concerning me for the whole campaign. I just had to write it down and share.
My character doesn't fit the standard of human male with a title of nobility so she's completely out of it.
They have had her issues but they make a beautiful couple and I really hoped to find a way to make their relationship work, even if I know that the other character would never choose mine over her duty.
What really sucks is that my character (who has always been an outcast and not because she wants to be) really thinks she has found her place at her side and is completely commited to her.
Both are enjoying being lovers until she finds someone to marry, so I know everything is going to end soon.
In the last adventure the GM (Dalindra) has brought into the game another character, male, handsome, an inquisitor from the organisation my PC's couple belongs to (and that would never accept my character because she's not human and not a martial). He is continuously praising her and she seems pleased about it. She also has said a few times that she thinks he is handsome and proficient in combat.
I know Dalindra (the GM) too much not to realize where this is going. He has already told me a few times that if a miracle doesn't happen her fate is set. I might be wrong and he might not be trying to get the two characters together (though it seems pretty obvious) but if it's not him it would be another person (he told me it's going to be a couple of years at best). So I don't think there's a lot I can do, as he's not going to bend the story to give me a happy ending and I don't want him to do it.
He has been telling me: «it's going to happen, so be prepared for it» since the very beginning so I always have known. It's just that I hoped there was a way to make it work. Being how my character is, she's going to just put herself aside and let her live a happy life.
The campaign is ending so I guess I shouldn't care a lot as I'm probably not roleplaying my character further than that but I still care.
I had many characters that didn't end good and I never cared as much, but this time I wanted it to be different. All her motivation from the very beginning was finding a place on the world so she'll be failing on her main goal, after other things ending awfully bad in the campaign. No happy ending this time.
I never was in this kind of situation in a game. I had a lot of relationships ending bad, but my characters have always just got over it and carried on. This is different because it's the first time I have a character who has so blindly commited herself into a relationship and who is going to really be broken after that. I don't even know how to roleplay it without overreacting or making Dalindra think that I am trying to press him into giving my character a different ending because that's not what I want to.
Please, let me know your opinions.
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Rant over. Back to food. Today is finally liver time, liver haters! XD
Edit: good morning John! Hadn't seen your message.
This is pork. Just because it was on sale and I have 50 euros for the whole month. But I like beef liver better.
I never had an issue with cholesterol but I do have anaemia, so liver is good for me.
I'm doing a traditional recipe for liver and onions. It's simple and as I am feeling depressed today (hormonal stuff, I'll be fine) I don't want to cook nothing too complicated.
It's almost 2:30 AM here. I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. Have a Great Day, Kileanna.
Good night and sweet dreams!
Working ill tonight.
So, went with my go-to when I feel lousy: Chicken noodle soup.
I prefer making my own, but as I wasn't feeling good, and I would have need to shop I went the lazy route and grabbed a can out of the cupboard.
Pair that with some cheap peanut-butter crackers, a bagel, and a bag of my seed/nut/fruit assortment and I am ready to feast
Precooked food! That is a sin! You must be punished!
Actually I have my own collection of processed stuff for emergencies and days that I have to work until late and I get home with no will to cook.
I bought an american style frozen pizza with very natural and good ingredients that demands to be eaten soon. It looks so good! But as it has spinach I am waiting for a day that I feel hungry enough to eat the whole pizza. Dalindra hates spinach.
I love spinach. Raw or cooked. I just found This recipe the other day. I'm tempted, it almost looks like individual spanakopitas.
Mm. Spanakopita...
I love spanakopita.
I also make some fusion cooking and use galician empanada dough with a spanakopita filling, or just bake a spinach and ricotta empanada. Or spinach, ricotta and raisins empanada. Or spinach, ricotta and mushroom empanada. Spinach and ricotta match just too well.
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Galician empanada dough (it's very simple and quick):
500g wheat flour
1 cup of milk (250mL)
Half a cup of olive oil (125mL)
1 egg
Salt
20g fresh yeast (about 6 of dried yeast) or no yeast, depending of what you want.
You just have to knead until the dough is elastic and doesn't stick and let it grow until it doubles its volume (if you are using yeast). If not, let it repose for about an hour.
Then you just extend it on a thin layer, put the filling inside, cover with another layer of dough, cut the excess in the borders and bend them so the empanada doesn't open (cannot explain the technique but I'm sure you'll find it online), make a small hole on the upper layer of dough (so the filling can «breathe»), paint the upper layer with egg, and bake for about 35 minutes until it is golden upside and down.
That sounds delicious!
The usual filling is just pepper and onion cooked until soft on olive oil as a base (could also be just onion) plus whatever you want: tuna and meat are two of the most usual choices. But you can toy with the filling so it is whatever you want: mushroom and chicken, seafood, cheese and spinach, etc. With or without the onion and pepper base depending on what you want. Even a pizzalike filling works to do some sort of empanada-calzone
Also you can bake it as a dessert with an apple or pear filling. The traditional filling of an american pie works perfectly as it is very similar to the one that we use for our apple empanada. Adding some raisins soaked in rum works great too. When I do this variation I add sugar to the egg I use for painting so it adds some sweet flavor to the dough. You can also add some sugar to the dough for this version but it's not necessary.
This one was one that I did as an apetizer for Crhistmas. I don't usually take pictures of my empanadas because they don't look pretty xD. I'll never get them to look like this. Now I get mine to look better than the one I posted but they still look uglier than professional ones.
Beware! Kileanna's stupid gaming rants coming! I had to write this down just to be able to think it aloud and because it has been concerning me for the whole campaign. I just had to write it down and share.
Spoiler:
I never was in this kind of situation in a game. I had a lot of relationships ending bad, but my characters have always just got over it and carried on. This is different because it's the first time I have a character who has so blindly commited herself into a relationship and who is going to really be broken after that. I don't even know how to roleplay it without overreacting or making Dalindra think that I am trying to press him into giving my character a different ending because that's not what I want to.
Please, let me know your opinions.
I do know however, that there probably won't be any changing Dal's mind, if he has made his mind up about how story should progress (I'm don't think I would either), so the question in my opinion becomes, how your character would react when the end inevitably comes.
Could your character in someway accept it? Would she try to stay a secret lover on the side (with all the consequences that would entail)? How desperate would she be if she got rejected?
Maybe the best way I can draw some parallels, would be the campaign, where Kjeldorn was "born", ended with our group leading a revolution in a city-state, but it was an incredibly bloody affair. So the revolutionaries were approached by the nobility (who we where fighting) and offered a settlement, where we would get a lot of the things we wanted, but the nobility would survive and could later maybe regain power - further more they demanded, kjeldorns and one other players, exile for crimes committed.
In the end, Kjeldorn agreed, because he was burned out on all the violence, the women he had courted had turn out to be a spy (which got her killed) and he felt he had lost all control of the very point of the revolution in the first place (justice for all). So he went into self-exile, now sitting in a small fort, teaching those who can find him, how to continue the fight for justice (and vengeance).
Now, I not saying that is what you should do, but you should think about how, what, where and to who your character will now turn. Just make it so, that one gets any sore feelings out of the matter, because there is nothing worse, then ending a really good campaign on a sour note.
Those pies (empanada?) look really interesting by the way. I'm might try making both a sweet and a calzone type.
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They are easy to do if you are used to work with dough. And you can put the filling you want unless you are a purist, which I am not xD
Regarding to my story, it's not as much as Dal has made his mind than he is going to be consistent with the character to the limits and I'm OK with that.
My character was a nomad with no place to go at the beginning of the campaign so she has no real attachments (well, she has her older sister, but she thinks she deserves to live her own life after having lost her childhood caring for her) and she has decided to go to live near her lover so they can use the time they have left to the max. After that she's undecided about whether to stay with her as just a friend or leave not to make it more difficult for her. Both will be probably against being lovers after her compromise because they want no lies.
My PC daydreams about making it public and everybody be OK about it but she knows it's not an option. Her lover is human, from a society who mistrusts arcane spellcasters and doesn't contemplate same sex relationships, so making it public would ruin her reputation.
My thought here is that my PC will probably just try to remain on her side trying to help her in whatever she is able as just a counselor and friend.
By the way, Kjeldorn's story really looks interesting from what I've read until now. I love hearing from other's people character backgrounds.
And don't worry, there won't be any sore feelings about this. Dalindra is Dalindra and a game is just a game. I know what I value more of the two xD
And he's also the greatest GM that I have because he's always consistent with the story. Even if some decissions seem difficult at times they are always the best for the characters and the story on the long term. In the end, nobody likes stories where everything is always perfect and bitter ends sometimes make further interesting stories.
This is pork. Just because it was on sale and I have 50 euros for the whole month. But I like beef liver better.
I never had an issue with cholesterol but I do have anaemia, so liver is good for me.
I'm doing a traditional recipe for liver and onions. It's simple and as I am feeling depressed today (hormonal stuff, I'll be fine) I don't want to cook nothing too complicated.
If you have access to a type of syrup made from cane called molasses, it's supposed to be good for anemia, too. It's got a pretty high iron content, is dark, and very sweet. It's almost a staple here in the southern USA.
Molasses which is called melaza here is not very frequent. I tasted some sauces made with it and I love its texture, similar to honey.
Now I am under treatment that consists on basically trying to control my excessive bleeding with an anticonceptive pill. But I still have to eat food which is rich in iron so I don't have anaemia again.
It's very similar to honey in texture, though often even thicker. I have a jar of home made molasses in my pantry now, and I love it on biscuits (not the British biscuit, which we call cookies), but the fluffy little round bread ones (in case you were wondering. I doubt you were though, you know everything about cooking!). :)
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Not true, I get very confused with many culinary terms in english.
And I call them cookies too.
In Spanish we use the same for sponge cakes, biscuits, plum cakes, pound cakes and all fluffy cakes. Everything is «bizcocho».
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One of the bakeries I worked at (Great Harvest Bread Co in Seattle) used molasses as the sweetener for Pumpkin pie. It was pretty good, made the pies look super dark, but I personally prefer sugar. :-)
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I've just remembered that I wanted to share another tradicional recipe from Galicia because it's a delicious almond cake with no gluten because it doesn't use flour and it's so easy to do.
You use the same weight of eggs, ground almond and sugar (I usually add only 3/4 of sugar because this cake is already very sweet), you mix everything, adding the eggs 1 by 1 and mixing well, add a small quantity of melted butter (I use about 40 grams for 250 grams of almond).
You can add some lemon, brandy or rum to add some flavor as you want.
You bake it at 200°C for about 35 minutes (or until dry) in a mold. It doesn't have to be a very tall cake, but 2-3 fingers tall. Then you cover in icing sugar and it's done.
By the way, sorry for using metric system again. I'm on the street right now and I don't know the equivalences by heart.
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That's what the internet is for! Converting recipes from European to American is a blast. :-)
Good morning John!
It's been done with brandy and it's good. I'd go with Amaretto. I love Amaretto.
I'm far from a connoisseur of liquors. I just know I drank a HELL of a lot of it when I was younger. I'd go with a sweet brandy, but not one of the flavored ones like peach or pear. Cherry would make it overwhelmingly cherry flavored and smother the chocolate taste. But you'll have to look up the different brands of brandy and choose the one you like, because I never paid attention to what I was drinking, as long as it wasn't Drano.
I'd definitely go with amaretto for cherries. Maybe some variation of a sacher cake with cherries?
*Yawn* 'Morning, everyone.
Sorry for the late Good 'morning John.
Edit:
Mmmmmm Rum and or Brandy.
It's okay. It's still before noon, right now. Good Evening to you, also. I figure that it's somewhere between 7 or 8 PM where you are.
Its 6 pm over here in norse land. You guys and gals, will have to excuse me a bit, as I'm at a family gettogether tonight, so I won't be on here as much.
Yes, have fun!
I've found a kinda nice recipe for a Sacher Cake here.
The original recipe uses apricot jam as a filling but you could cook your cherries with some rum/amaretto/whatever, some butter and sugar until you got some sort of cherry sauce and use it instead of the jam.
Amaretto has an almond flavor, which goes well with cherries
Kirsch is cherry brandy, which is another good choice
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Thanks everyone. Well Its fun enough, just got mauled in a game of Saga (miniature tabletop game), against my brother and now we are taking gaming over Irish coffees.
Sounds like a good time!
Did you make the burger, btw?