Happy Birthday today to a fabulous writer and reccer

snegurochka_lee!

Many happy returns, my dear! :)

Current Mood: thoughtful

LJ to the rescue!

I'm making the corn pudding recipe I made a few years back, but after a frantic search through my recipe files (and boy, I need to organize that!) proved fruitless.

But then I remembered I took some pictures of it with Boy2 because he really liked it. And lo and behold! I also had posted the recipe. *huggles LJ archives*

Current Mood: relieved

A note of explanation: Dominus is a boy scout. As such, he has the requisite Scouting addiction to Corned Beef Hash. Anywhere we go to eat, if it's got hash on the menu, I immediately know what my husband will be ordering, no matter what else they may serve. Seriously, he loves the stuff so much that from time to time, he'll scratch the hash itch with tinned. Clearly, this was a situation I could not abide. I mean, if you're gonna feed your monkey, feed it the good stuff, right? So here's what we're having for breakfast today.

* Go to your deli, and ask for a butt end of corned beef. Anything over a quarter of a pound is great, and they don't need to slice it for you. You'll be mincing it up at home yourself.

* If you are pork-compliant, then chop up three good, fatty strips of bacon, and put them in a BIG, flat-bottomed pan on low heat. (The object here is to render their fat, not to cook the bacon; cooking the bacon is a side effect of the rendering.)

* If you are pork-resistant, then do the 2 - 1 mix of olive and sesame oils here, to add the smoky taste of the bacon.

* Peel a few cloves of garlic, and crush them with the flat of your knife. Throw those in with the bacon to render.

* go out to the sage bushes, and get a handful of fresh leaves. Throw those in whole too.

* Add a generous drizzle of oil into the pan to help the bacon give it up in case it's a bit chary. I think I put about two tablespoons of olive (because I keep olive oil ready to hand. You can use whatever kind of oil you fancy, really.)

* Rough-chop a medium onion (red ones are tastiest!) and enough potatoes to match volume, then half again. In my kitchen, that was three small blue potatoes, and one large red. (I have goth tubers. No one's surprised, I know.) You want to cut them fairly large, but fairly thin -- that is to say, quarter each potato longways, and then slice the pieces about half an inch thick at most. They need to be large enough that they'll hold together, but thin enough to cook all the way through. In my case, the blue potatoes were a bit elderly, so they didn't need any pre-cooking, but I slung the red in the microwave for two turns at 30 seconds apiece, so its texture would match the others. You do as you see fit.

* Take your biggest kitchen knife -- this is the time to break out your cleaver, if you've got one, -- hack your corned beef into crumbles. There's no rhyme or reason to this, you just whack away, and try not to let it fly all over the place.

* Once the bacon's not showing any white anymore (that is, all its fatty rind should now be caramel coloured and kind of translucent) you can dump the onion, potatoes, and beef into the pot. If you don't have enough oil to lightly coat everything, then add just a little more, but otherwise, just turn the lot to get it evenly mixed and coated, throw in salt and pepper to taste, pat it all down flat in the pan, and walk away.

* Ignore the sizzling, and the searing smells from the pan for a good long time. Hash is SUPPOSED to be kind of scorchy and burny, remember? If it really distressed you, you can fuss it about for awhile first, to try and get everything to cook up, but that's kind of redundant, since you're going to settle it to scorch soon anyway, and when you flip it over to do the other side, everything else will cook up then.

* Fry up an egg for each person you'll be feeding. (From our stovetop, it looks like this is going to feed four, which means two for us today, and two lunches for Dominus later on.) Scrape all the good stuff up from the bottom of the pan, and ladle the hash into the plates, then slap the egg on top.

* Serve with tabasco, worchestershire sauce, and ketchup on the table, but don't be surprised if your guests don't even notice they're there all.

* Make this noise: OM NOM NOM!!!

* Wish you were eating breakfast with Clue and Dominus today!

Thanksgiving.

I was just informed that mom and her roommate were expecting me to do the Thanksgiving turkey. Along with pumpkin pie (crust from scratch) and my cheesecake.

Whut-?

This is going to be one of those weeks, isn't it?

Good thing it's 9am.

Here's a fanfiction heart attack.

Midway through my sga_santa fic, the borrowed laptop suddenly freezes.

Current Mood: awake

So it's about 9am here. I got up early to start defrosting the turkey in our never-fail hotwater method. We're also smoking a ham. Made an apple pie and a pumpkin cheesecake yesterday, as well as the dressing, a cranberry-orange relish and a chicken & butternut squash stew (for lunch today). Today I have to do, besides the turkey and ham, the corn pudding and the asparagus.

Boy2 has just gotten up; HeadBoy and Fred are still out and snuggling together. I think Boy1 is down at BlondBoy's house. We're watching the Macy's parade. Lordy, what cheese.

We stayed up late last night to watch 'Carriers'. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't the greatest movie I've ever seen. It was pretty bleak in terms of storyline. The best thing was that I figured out how to connect Albus to the TV, and it was awesome! I also found out by reading the TV user's manual (because I am female and I do that sort of thing) that our TV will connect to the internet by itself and will stream videos from Amazon. That's totally awesome. I still need to get that set up, but wow, so cool. [Hey, I remember black&white TVs with spin dials, no cable or satellite, and Star Trek when it was the most advanced show on TV.]

Went for a walk around the neighborhood yesterday, and today my left foot hurts like a mofo. Dammit.

I hope all my fellow Pilgrims have a great Thanksgiving Day. And I bid the rest of the world a very fine day.

Current Mood: thankful

Title: the invisible line
Rating: R
Pairing: Snape/Lupin
Warnings: unbetaed, post-DH.
Word Count: ± 2,050 words.
Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm just borrowing them for my twisted means.
Summary: maybe one day we won't need to stay in the dark.

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it! Happy almost-the-weekend to those who don't!

Real post later, if time and family allow. Count one fly-by, lore. ;)

This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/517550.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals.

Current Mood: rushed

I wonder how many National Blog Posting Month entries today will be quickie "Happy Thanksgiving" notes, or will make Thanksgiving the topic or will just have Thanksgiving in it?

Because hey, no one loves to reduce a holiday down to math more than me.

Have a good one, loves. May Morimoto himself guide your hands if you're cooking. *gobble gobble*

love, lore

Current Mood: hungry

Title: San Diego Marriott Hotel
Challenge: snape100 challenge 309: Wikipedia, Redux I got this
Author: fancypantsdylan (on LJ as rage_jt)
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Word Count: 200
Summary: Harry and Severus go on holiday (awful summary but hey *shrugs *)
Rating: R
Beta: katiebell_0408
Disclaimer: All characters owned by JK Rowling, I just play with them. No profit made on use of characters.




( Read here )

Current Mood: cold

Title: My Son/Part 8
Author: lilyseyes
Prompt: thematic_hp - Round 7 – Vows and life debts, Prompt #30. Severitus – Snape knows he is Harry’s father, but his desperate attempts to gain custody fail. He vows that even if he cannot tell Harry who he is, he will always protect his son.
Pairing: None
Rating: R for the warnings
Word Count: +/- 5200
Warnings: *Mentions of child abuse and child selling, manipulative!Dumbledore*
Author's Notes: This story took off on its own journey, choosing its own way – this is a WIP that will be updated as real life allows.
Betas: whitecotton and the_minx_17

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7

Part 8

Current Mood: thankful

( WriSoMiFu Day 26 - Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned from Harry Potter )

Title: Gratifying
Author/Artist: alisanne
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Challenge: Written for harry100's prompt #59: Quidditch
Rating: PG
Length: 100
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
Summary: There are parts of Quidditch that Severus actually enjoys.
Beta: sevfan
Notes: It's been a rough week, so you get silliness. This is dedicated to unbroken_halo. You know why. ♥
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Gratifying )

Current Mood: touched

This will be hard, but I thought I'd talk about a song I've been pondering a while:

( Meet Me on the Equinox lyrics and video link )

Ok, I can see Severus starting the song and Remus finishing it, but I don't necessarily like the "Everything ends" chorus. It's certainly a good canon song for them, and I can see around "everything ends" by it meaning something more elusive in the future or as Severus' doubts. But what do you all think? Add it to my mental Snape/Lupin soundtrack or not?

And we'll just forget what really inspired this song, natch. ~_^

*****
In other news, We've come up with a contest for snupin_santa readers this year called Stuff the Stockings. Interested? Check it out!

love, lore

Current Mood: listless

Because I have been baking a lot lately (and am still baking for Thanksgiving, currently, as we speak), and have not had a lot of sleep, and have had a lot of caffeine, and need to come up with ways to amuse myself, such as creating silly polls

Because I have been baking a lot lately, and have been wondering about the ways in which other people bake, and thinking about food in general, because food is good

And because I am procrastinating on writing, because I cannot and will not manage to write anything coherent for NaNo or any other story, when I am this sleep-deprived:

( I present to you, dear flist, the following poll )

Current Mood: exhausted

• Actors and Movies: Ian Kelly talks Emma Watson and Deathly Hallows filming
  
  New Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint photo and interview from Deathly Hallows set
  
  Video: Rupert Grint talks chess game scene on Sorcerer’s Stone and Deathly Hallows sets
  
  Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright talk Deathly Hallows epilogue from set
  
  
• Hot Rec: Grey Dawning by silentauror (Harry/Draco, NC-17)
  
  
• News: Autographed deluxe Deathly Hallows book being auctioned for MS and Habitat for Humanity
  
  
• Searches: daily_snitch is searching for Helga Hufflepuff fanwork (fic and art) and resources
  
  

Criminal Minds

( spoilers )

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Maybe I will try to write. I would like to post one more story this month, if possible, before I buckle down on yuletide and broken toys.

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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/100016.html. people have commented there.

Current Mood: lethargic

Arionrhod and I are looking for a story that's Remus/Severus/Regulus, but it starts off with Remus and Regulus together, not Severus/Regulus, and Severus was brought in later. Remus hated the way Sirius was treating his brother, and he and Reg got involved. Marauders Era, not very long (we think).

Any help would be appreciated!