Barb_G

Oh, yum!

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:39:12 GMT

We made sriracha and maple lentil/brown rice/wild rice with shitake mushrooms yesterday that was amazing. We served it with sausage and kale.

On day two I made roasted carrots and parsnips to go on it and it was heaven. Spicy, sweet. The wild rice, which had been a little crunchy, had finished cooking all the way reheating.

I'm going to save the recipe here for the veggies, though I still think it needs something green.

Orange roasted carrots and parsnips:

Preheat the oven to 450o F
"some" carrots and parsnips. I think I used four of each
1 navel orange
1/2 - 1 tsp sriracha to taste.
1-2 tbs olive oil
1-2 tbs soy sauce (I used tamari for gluten issues)
1/2 tsp salt (I used chipotle spice mix instead)
cracked black pepper

Peel and chop the veggies
cut the orange into 8 slices
toss everything together
Throw in a 450 degree oven for 20 minutes

If everything turns out right the oranges should be scorched around the edges. Juice a couple of the now jammy slices over everything. Try to decide which tastes better, the carrots or the parsnips.

It really needs something that's green. Parsley or the tops of green onions should be added at the end. I bet sliced grannie smith apples would go well tossed and baked in the oven, but coming out wouldn't be that bright flash of colour that it needs.

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A Killing Snow (due South Fraser/Ray K)

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:19:21 GMT

Name: Barb G troutkitty
Title: A Killing Snow
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Ray K/Fraser
Summary: The bodies were found in pieces, dumped in alleys. Ray and Fraser return to the way things were. Written for the spook_me challenge. Ghosts and ghouls warning.

Link to story: A Killing Snow

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Oh, well

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:33:35 GMT

I was just about to leave for the interview as an ESL instructor the next town over and they called to say the enrollment wasn't strong enough to support hiring another teacher, so it wasn't even worth the interview.

We went out yesterday and bought a copy of Word for Mac 2011 so I could begin my edits. Yay for that, at least.

My Spook Me story is done. I still feel crushed inside.

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I tempered chocolate!

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:13:15 GMT

"Don't do it!" said the woman at Michaels where we bought the chocolate molds from. "It's too dangerous, best to use the Candy melts," said the woman at the chocolate store where we bought the chocolate.

But I did it! Through the double boiler method, even. We'd made a leche de dolce filling with condensed milk and a dark chocolate raspberry ganache. We have skulls, gravestones and eyebulls just filled with yumminess. And even though I may have turned into a bit of a kitchen growly, snappy thing, the results are pretty dark cool :) The chocolate have a snap to the tooth which is just great.

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How much do I love my wife?

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:26:37 GMT

I'm pretty sure love is an uncountable noun with good reason. Because I really can't come up with a good enough answer.

She spent some of her birthday uploading my old fic to AO3. Which is a huge task considering how prolific I used to be. It's pretty amazing looking back at all the titles and seeing where my mindset was in each of the stories. I remember most of them as though I'd just finished writing them.

Others, I just want to forget. We had a really long debate as to whether I should have my early highlander fic up. It's not that I'm embarrassed by them, but they were so raw and awkward. I didn't know what a beta was back then. I'd written a metric tonne of novel length drivel by the time I had started into fanfic, so it wasn't the first things I'd ever written, but they were the first things I'd ever done for other people to actually read.

I've always thought if you are a writer you're gifted with two out of three talents. You're either good at plotting, good at characterization, or good at technical writing. I think I was really good at the first two. The third took its own sweet time. Even now I have to comb my work before sharing and even then some real doozies slip past.

Oh, I suppose I should add the link: Barb G's AO3 fic in Progress

I've also set up a dreamwidth account with the same username. I'm troutkitty.

(Backdated because daemonluna's a genius.)

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I promised devo I would do this in the new year

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:20:21 GMT

...and it's the new year.

So it's done.

New Years was quiet, which is becoming more and more important to us. Though once we start having kids we may need to get out of the house and go a bit more crazy than we have been. Though I'm sure that's more for parents who become parents in their twenties than parents who become parents in their thirties.

I'm going to be changing my username sometime soon. Haven't decided to what yet. But it's in the back of my mind.

2011 hopefully will bring new job, new novel, and no new heartache from idiotic, selfish and criminal biologicals.

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