food log and storm of words

[extrapenguin]

Tangerine horse was good, but also sort of ... y'know, when you aren't sure how to feel about a taste? It was also interesting and a bit sweet for me. 4 portions as advertised. Afterwards, I used up my 3/4 of a red onion, single red paprika, and half my broccoli to make a stirfry with black beans. Cooked it with doubanjiang and a bit of oyster sauce. It's decent enough, I guess, though I think it was missing something that'd make my brain go "Ok, that's enough" – maybe not enough oil?

I defrosted 550g of ground lamb. I'll make some kimchi meatball soup (some of my kimchi has overfermented to the point where it's bloated up its packaging) with a hodgepodge of this recipe for the kimchi and soup broth, and this recipe for the meatball cooking method. (I'll probably toss in some frozen peas and corn as well, and maybe some canned bamboo shoots.) I'll also try making my own noodles, because why the hell not. Then it's sweet and sour meatballs with bok choy napa cabbage and mushroom stirfry or garlicky broccoli stirfry for actual vegetable content. If there's cause for concern re: the meat going off, I'll make lamb baozi again.

Further recipe sites discovered: Omnivore's Cookbook (mostly Chinese) and Seonkyoung Longest (mostly Korean).

Otherwise, while Hell is other people, it is also what is for dinner. Meal planning is the bastard child of an optimization problem and decision fatigue, and, argh. In a way I'm glad I can use the extra time I have now to feed myself and give meaning to my life by eating nice-tasting things; in another, I will be glad to return to my "make stir fry from pre-chopped frozen vegetables, eat it for a week" way of life when this is over.

CoNZealand e-mailed with a revised programme scheduling thing. The main program will be from 3am to 9am for me; I told them I'd be able to wake up at 7 (and then continue through the lighter load of late items). I am still :/ that it happened this year with NZ, since I really wanted to go, dammit. (I haven't cancelled the plane tickets, but I don't believe the borders will be open in July yet.) Mostly I'm just sad about all of reality being cancelled.

For the other sense of the word "fandom", I've written 8.9k of fic for We Die Like Fen, reveals of which will certainly happen someday soon. Maybe. Hopefully. I've also finished one assignment more, and have decided to place a moratorium on further sign-ups until I finish the final assignment I have.

I went and read some fic in search of Li Qian recs! I found some gems, including one that I won't be reccing on the Li Qian post because it's a Lin Jing fic: Turn Your Watch Back, 9.5k of funny time travel goodness!

Writing-wise, I published chapter 3 of Every Door a Death. Here is an index of Path of Exile unique item quotes for each chapter:
"What is fear but a snuffed torch and death in the wind?"
"The greatest mistakes cause suffering long after they've been made."
"Knowledge brings power, and with power you can grab truth by the throat and shape it as you wish."
(4-7 forthcoming)

Comments

[maggie33]

I found some gems, including one that I won't be reccing on the Li Qian post because it's a Lin Jing fic: Turn Your Watch Back, 9.5k of funny time travel goodness!

Thank you so much for that rec. I've just read the fic and it's wonderful and funny. I love Guardian time travel fics, but somehow I completely missed this one.

[extrapenguin]

The time travel themed fic exchange it was part of, Past Imperfect Future Unknown, produced 4 Guardian fics, all of which were released onto AO3 at the same time, so if you missed the other three as well, here's your chance for moar fic.