GIP! A matching quiz, and duck recipes.

[castalia]

Barbossa/Apples is my new OTP. Thus, iconage.

To go with the new icon, a lovely PotC quiz, gakked from ealgylden...



You are....

Barbossa's apple fetish. You reeeeallly like
apples, and who can blame you?? I mean,
seriously, ten years, thinking about one fruit.
Well, it's either dedication or insanity. You
get all tingly, thinking about apples, doncha?
They sure are good, man, I wish I had one right
now.... We'll be hopin' for the best.


Which Pirates of the Caribbean Character's Unhealthy Fetish are YOU?
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The fact that this is a quiz result makes me very happy.

Spent the evening with the Farlows, and will probably be over there again tomorrow to help with their trial-run with the ice cream maker (in prep. for Sunday's ice cream social at St. Luke's). Courtesy of Sandy, I also have a possible job prospect - substitute teaching. I might have to have a second job a few evenings out of the week in order to make enough $$, but at least this would let me use my brain. We'll see.

Having problems deciding on a recipe for the duck mum and I will be experimenting with on Saturday. There's a nice-sounding one here that uses a burgandy sauce, and one here with consommé and sherry (although I'd leave out the orange bits, never liked orange in my meat). Or, if those are too complicated, there's a much simpler one here. Any thoughts from you?

Random thought - LJ seems to make one lose the ability to write with personal pronouns. Must correct this.

Comments

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Random thought - LJ seems to make one lose the ability to write with personal pronouns. Must correct this.

Heh. Yeah, no kidding. LJ has had an interesting effect on my writing, since the writing in my posts tends to be quite close to my speech patterns, which means a mix of formal and very casual registers, lots of pauses (all those damn ellipses and dashes I use), many many many tangents and parenthetical phrases, and yeah, not that many pronouns. I bet it's a pain for others to read sometimes, but I can't really tell, since after all, that's the way I think and talk. Hopefully these bad habits won't get too ingrained- that would be bad for my more formal, scholarly writing, and how would I explain it? "Oh, well, I got lazy thanks to my addiction to blathering online about my geekish enthusiasms." Erm.

For my birthday this year, I made this Seared Duck Breast with Chili, Honey and Ginger Glaze (http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=102303&action=filtersearch&filter=recipe-filter.hts&collection=Recipes&ResultTemplate=recipe-results.hts&queryType=and&keyword=seared+duck+breast), and I added a slightly sweet-tart-spicy cherry sauce from another yummy-souding duck recipe in the June issue of Cooking Light, which annoyingly isn't on their website (though I can email it or post it if you'd like). It was really good- not too spicy, not too sweet, but well-rounded and warmly fruity. Really yummy, and not hard to make.

I'm not a big fan of orange-flavors on meat either. Or orange and chocolate. Just not for me.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Well, it makes sense to me to read, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing ;) I tend to use that strange combination of formal and casual (with a bit of Bertie Wooster-speak thrown in), as well.

Thanks for the recipe! Sounds yummy, especially the port and ginger bits. I'll add it to my bookmarks and try it out if I ever find a way to get just the duck breasts and not the whole duck (we are so deprived of meats other than beef, turkey, chicken, and pork where I live).