food, fic, ???
29 Apr 2020 20:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguinThings I enjoy: looking at cooking blogs to figure out what Shen Wei should cook for Zhao Yunlan in fic.
Things I don't enjoy: looking at cooking blogs to figure out what I should cook for myself...
Kimchi broccoli soup (insp) with boiled meatballs (insp) and hand-pulled noodles was a success! (The soup was 4-ish portions, but the noodle recipe is only 2 so I did it twice.) I don't own a rolling pin, which hampered my noodle making, but I could sort of compensate by chopping very thin slices. If using this recipe, I'd redo by leaving the dough block set on clingwrap instead of a floured surface – the flour left a crust that made the pulling really uneven. I later discovered this Serious Eats article + recipe on hand-pulled noodles, and might try adding nutritional yeast next time (or drying yeast – idk if nutritional yeast is readily available here).
Sweet and sour meatballs were okay, despite the sauce failing. I think my ketchup wasn't fresh enough or something? Anyway, the sauce started congealing much before it started boiling, which probably wasn't what the recipe intended? But I got meatballs. My napa cabbage and mushroom stir fry is curiously unspiced, but it's nonetheless delightful. Probably the mushrooms? Vegetables to eat with the meatballs and rice, anyway.
Next up: I will try steamed fish with black bean sauce with some of the vendace; if that fails, I'll just pan fry the rest. I'll finish up the cabbage stir fry here as well. After, the next main course will be scallion beef stir fry (with venison), and I'll repeat the poached scallion ginger chicken which started my cooking from a recipe binge. For vegetable content, I'll make napa cabbage stir fry, something out of the leftover cabbage greens (maybe with glass noodles like the recipe suggests?), and garlic spinach with the chicken poaching fluids.
(Potential future action points: buying dead animal bits from places other than the supermarket so I can e.g. roast a whole chicken and make stock from the carcass. I do know of a fishmonger's, but I'd have to bike 20min away, and I am lazy.)
linghxr on tumblr collected a list of hanzi commonly found in female idol contest participants' names. (ETA: male participants' names, too.)
Ficcery: I wrote six things for We Die Like Fen 3, with a total wordcount of over 10k! Guardian, MDZS, TGE, and NIF. Also posted chapter 4 of Every Door a Death.
Noteworthy things: for WDLF3, I wrote a 5k+ sci-fi AU for Guardian on a flash exchange timescale! Again. The first time was Eddies in the Stream of Time, back in October, with archeologist Zhao Yunlan and alien temple complexes. This time, it was Tell Me, Mechanist, with transhumanism and more nods to various other things than typical for me. One could probably pull out a lot about me by doing a compare and contrast of those two, lol. Especially if one threw in the third sci-fi AU, Under Rusted Skies.
*goes off to write more fic*
Things I don't enjoy: looking at cooking blogs to figure out what I should cook for myself...
Kimchi broccoli soup (insp) with boiled meatballs (insp) and hand-pulled noodles was a success! (The soup was 4-ish portions, but the noodle recipe is only 2 so I did it twice.) I don't own a rolling pin, which hampered my noodle making, but I could sort of compensate by chopping very thin slices. If using this recipe, I'd redo by leaving the dough block set on clingwrap instead of a floured surface – the flour left a crust that made the pulling really uneven. I later discovered this Serious Eats article + recipe on hand-pulled noodles, and might try adding nutritional yeast next time (or drying yeast – idk if nutritional yeast is readily available here).
Sweet and sour meatballs were okay, despite the sauce failing. I think my ketchup wasn't fresh enough or something? Anyway, the sauce started congealing much before it started boiling, which probably wasn't what the recipe intended? But I got meatballs. My napa cabbage and mushroom stir fry is curiously unspiced, but it's nonetheless delightful. Probably the mushrooms? Vegetables to eat with the meatballs and rice, anyway.
Next up: I will try steamed fish with black bean sauce with some of the vendace; if that fails, I'll just pan fry the rest. I'll finish up the cabbage stir fry here as well. After, the next main course will be scallion beef stir fry (with venison), and I'll repeat the poached scallion ginger chicken which started my cooking from a recipe binge. For vegetable content, I'll make napa cabbage stir fry, something out of the leftover cabbage greens (maybe with glass noodles like the recipe suggests?), and garlic spinach with the chicken poaching fluids.
(Potential future action points: buying dead animal bits from places other than the supermarket so I can e.g. roast a whole chicken and make stock from the carcass. I do know of a fishmonger's, but I'd have to bike 20min away, and I am lazy.)
linghxr on tumblr collected a list of hanzi commonly found in female idol contest participants' names. (ETA: male participants' names, too.)
Ficcery: I wrote six things for We Die Like Fen 3, with a total wordcount of over 10k! Guardian, MDZS, TGE, and NIF. Also posted chapter 4 of Every Door a Death.
Noteworthy things: for WDLF3, I wrote a 5k+ sci-fi AU for Guardian on a flash exchange timescale! Again. The first time was Eddies in the Stream of Time, back in October, with archeologist Zhao Yunlan and alien temple complexes. This time, it was Tell Me, Mechanist, with transhumanism and more nods to various other things than typical for me. One could probably pull out a lot about me by doing a compare and contrast of those two, lol. Especially if one threw in the third sci-fi AU, Under Rusted Skies.
*goes off to write more fic*
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Date: 2020-04-29 21:24 (UTC)The problem? Unless you or someone you know lives in China, finding penghui isn’t easy. And seeing as I didn’t feel comfortable asking people to import a sketchy white powder across international borders, I was left to find other ways to develop that all-important repeatable extensibility.
Hee!
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Date: 2020-05-01 23:57 (UTC)I enjoyed your fic. Thanks for linking to it.
I'm definitely going to want to refer back to the name post. I love reading all of the recipes you cook from. And I was fascinated enough by your pulled noodle adventures that I almost started shopping for ingredients right away. (Including checking whether my local market carry penghui and seeing whether it's possible to buy only a small quantity of nutritional yeast) But I talked myself down because I have several kinds of dried noodles, including two I haven't tried before, that I should actually eat before starting this journey. But I do look forward to hearing more about your experiments.
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Date: 2020-05-02 18:53 (UTC)I, um. Well. At least the noodle ingredients all last long? *g* /also has some dried noodles in the cupboard. I'll make some more hand-pulled noodles at a later date – AFAIK, nutritional yeast has a long shelf-life. (If I can't find it, well, regular yeast can be frozen and then deactivated somehow.) But a bunch of other culinary experiments first.