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extrapenguinSteamed fish with black bean sauce: I put my vendace over asparagus and used some Lee Kum Kee black bean and garlic sauce, as I don't have access to dou chi. Attempt #2, with the sauce diluted, fared better, but it was still too salty for me. (Note: I hate salt.) I finished off the last of the cabbage and mushroom stir fry with it.
Venison and scallion stir fry was good! (And made 8 portions, instead of, like, 2, which is always a plus.) Definitely going to make that again. Though the author lives in a land where leeks are much smaller – I only got 1 (instead of 2) and had 1.5x the quantity of meat, and had I had more leeks, it'd have been more leek than meat! Nonetheless, I ate napa cabbage vinegar stir fry (half cabbage made 4? portions) with it as a side and finished off the cabbage greens with braised cabbage (~2 portions) (note to self: you already own rapeseed oil that's been infused with Sichuan peppers, no need to play around browning your stash).
I redid the poached chicken, though this time I think my chicken lump was too large to cook perfectly, and the recipe takes forever to make. I do have several cups of broth left to freeze, and will make broth from the bones as well, I think. Garlic spinach is okay.
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vexercises #5 (lyrical play: lyrics-inspired imagery, but then set it to a different instrumental) ahead of schedule. Then icontalking ran another song set challenge and I rewatched episode 9 as part of the rewatch parties glymr is hosting (in a more Euro-timezone friendly pre-watch from 21-22 Finland ... and promptly stayed up for the 23-00 Finland rewatch proper of episode 2 *g*), and, uh, I started another one? The song's in Finnish, so I guess it already counts as an instrumental/can't-make-out-lyrics for you. I'm still diddling with the precise numerical values of all the color sliders, but I uploaded a draft vid to Google Drive – I'd be really interested in hearing your reactions! (Concrit welcome, too, esp about how the coloring works.)
The song is Vesala - Tequila, and I already used it for a song set last year, whence the color grading. Let me tell you, it was hard to figure out how to represent whalesong with only Guardian footage. And no-one wants to see Shen Wei with a knife.
I am, of course, a ficcer through and through. I wrote a little thing forbrush_and_lantern's May theme (Control), posted the penultimate chapter of Every Door a Death, and came up with a new fic idea! In which Shen Wei isn't shot with Zhao Yunlan's gun by a villain, but is rather put in Dixing power suppressing handcuffs by a villain. (Set between episodes 14 and 15.) Because apparently what my brain wants right now is for terrible things to happen to Shen Wei! Estimated length: 20k or less.
Venison and scallion stir fry was good! (And made 8 portions, instead of, like, 2, which is always a plus.) Definitely going to make that again. Though the author lives in a land where leeks are much smaller – I only got 1 (instead of 2) and had 1.5x the quantity of meat, and had I had more leeks, it'd have been more leek than meat! Nonetheless, I ate napa cabbage vinegar stir fry (half cabbage made 4? portions) with it as a side and finished off the cabbage greens with braised cabbage (~2 portions) (note to self: you already own rapeseed oil that's been infused with Sichuan peppers, no need to play around browning your stash).
I redid the poached chicken, though this time I think my chicken lump was too large to cook perfectly, and the recipe takes forever to make. I do have several cups of broth left to freeze, and will make broth from the bones as well, I think. Garlic spinach is okay.
Fandom-wise, I am a firm believer in making things ahead of schedule, so I made
vexercises #5 (lyrical play: lyrics-inspired imagery, but then set it to a different instrumental) ahead of schedule. Then icontalking ran another song set challenge and I rewatched episode 9 as part of the rewatch parties glymr is hosting (in a more Euro-timezone friendly pre-watch from 21-22 Finland ... and promptly stayed up for the 23-00 Finland rewatch proper of episode 2 *g*), and, uh, I started another one? The song's in Finnish, so I guess it already counts as an instrumental/can't-make-out-lyrics for you. I'm still diddling with the precise numerical values of all the color sliders, but I uploaded a draft vid to Google Drive – I'd be really interested in hearing your reactions! (Concrit welcome, too, esp about how the coloring works.)The song is Vesala - Tequila, and I already used it for a song set last year, whence the color grading. Let me tell you, it was hard to figure out how to represent whalesong with only Guardian footage. And no-one wants to see Shen Wei with a knife.
I am, of course, a ficcer through and through. I wrote a little thing for
brush_and_lantern's May theme (Control), posted the penultimate chapter of Every Door a Death, and came up with a new fic idea! In which Shen Wei isn't shot with Zhao Yunlan's gun by a villain, but is rather put in Dixing power suppressing handcuffs by a villain. (Set between episodes 14 and 15.) Because apparently what my brain wants right now is for terrible things to happen to Shen Wei! Estimated length: 20k or less.