Progress & shoggoths
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stillsostrange"Bone Garden"
Words today: 1531
Words total: 1531
Reason for stopping: scene, and need to figure out the next thing
Sustenance: pita and tzatziki and snausages and wine--nom nom nom
Darling: Gentian scanned the street, but it was empty: closed doors, windows shuttered against the cold, frost-slick cobbles glazed with lamplight.
Tyop: none I've caught yet
Mean things: hauling unconscious people up stairs
Quirks: This is another story I haven't worked on in nearly a year. Apparently all the boywhores wanted was some opera, and now they're ready to go fight the oracular demons. Once I figure out exactly what the oracular demons are doing. I guess the short-story section of my brain is back online now.
Interesting research: I was trying to figure out what a kitchen smelled like, and someone suggested vanilla. So I looked up vanilla to see if this part of the world would have it, but alas, native to Mexico, and my peoples have yet to discover the NotSoNew World. And then I started reading about vanilla pollination, and it's pretty darn cool. So now I need a vanilla plantation in the fauxMayan book somewhere. Maybe my intrepid Sue grows up on one.
In chat, I described this story as Snow White and the Seven Boywhores. Now I'm sad because it really isn't. Alas, no wicked queens or poisoned apples are showing up to remedy this.
Sourdough Pita
1 cup intrepid shoggoth
2 cups flour
3/4 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon applesauce (I had none so I replaced this with a pat of butter)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
Mix the shoggie with the water, yeast, and sugar. Stir in the flour, salt, oil, and applesauce/butter. This will probably be a bit wet, so add more flour a tablespoon at a time until it's not too sticky and not too dry. Knead and cover to rise. When it's doubled in size, punch it down and roll it into a rope and divide into eighths. Smoosh the eighths into flat rounds.
At this point, you can either fry the pitas or bake them. I tried both, and both are delicious. To fry, coat a pan with olive oil and heat very hot. Cook the pitas for a couple minutes on each side, until they're done but not burned.
To bake, preheat the oven to 500. (The original recipe said bake for three minutes on a rack. I used a cookie sheet and it took me more like 10-12 minutes. I suggest just keeping an eye on them till they look right.) When they come out of the oven, smoosh them flat.
Nom nom nom.
Words today: 1531
Words total: 1531
Reason for stopping: scene, and need to figure out the next thing
Sustenance: pita and tzatziki and snausages and wine--nom nom nom
Darling: Gentian scanned the street, but it was empty: closed doors, windows shuttered against the cold, frost-slick cobbles glazed with lamplight.
Tyop: none I've caught yet
Mean things: hauling unconscious people up stairs
Quirks: This is another story I haven't worked on in nearly a year. Apparently all the boywhores wanted was some opera, and now they're ready to go fight the oracular demons. Once I figure out exactly what the oracular demons are doing. I guess the short-story section of my brain is back online now.
Interesting research: I was trying to figure out what a kitchen smelled like, and someone suggested vanilla. So I looked up vanilla to see if this part of the world would have it, but alas, native to Mexico, and my peoples have yet to discover the NotSoNew World. And then I started reading about vanilla pollination, and it's pretty darn cool. So now I need a vanilla plantation in the fauxMayan book somewhere. Maybe my intrepid Sue grows up on one.
In chat, I described this story as Snow White and the Seven Boywhores. Now I'm sad because it really isn't. Alas, no wicked queens or poisoned apples are showing up to remedy this.
Sourdough Pita
1 cup intrepid shoggoth
2 cups flour
3/4 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon applesauce (I had none so I replaced this with a pat of butter)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
Mix the shoggie with the water, yeast, and sugar. Stir in the flour, salt, oil, and applesauce/butter. This will probably be a bit wet, so add more flour a tablespoon at a time until it's not too sticky and not too dry. Knead and cover to rise. When it's doubled in size, punch it down and roll it into a rope and divide into eighths. Smoosh the eighths into flat rounds.
At this point, you can either fry the pitas or bake them. I tried both, and both are delicious. To fry, coat a pan with olive oil and heat very hot. Cook the pitas for a couple minutes on each side, until they're done but not burned.
To bake, preheat the oven to 500. (The original recipe said bake for three minutes on a rack. I used a cookie sheet and it took me more like 10-12 minutes. I suggest just keeping an eye on them till they look right.) When they come out of the oven, smoosh them flat.
Nom nom nom.
