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[verity83]

My fakey chicken turned out MUCH better this time around. It is less tough, less full of large garbanzo chunks, and just in general better flavour. It's not such a murky grey, either - more golden brown. For lunch I used some with some leftover pasta from Donna and the rest of the asparagus for a yummy noodle thing. Put the rest in the freezer. I like to have it on hand for stir-fries and casseroles.

I also made bread. It smells and looks delicious except for one minor detail. I slit the top with a knife before the second rising because I wanted an artistic little cleft in the top of my loaves. The result was strange, blobular flab on the top part of the bread. Oh well.

I also read BOOK NINE! Prince Caspian. Quite good. I like the name Caspian. It's strange and exotic and royal, akin to Sirki or Sabien and so forth. It doesn't, however, remind me of Torquil.

Better go check on the load of drying apples.

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked Prince Caspian! It and the Dawn Treader are probably my favorites; the same for Byron. But I know a lot of people don't like it much, so I'm glad you do. Caspian is indeed a great name.

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

I'm liking Lucy a lot. I don't really feel the two older children are nearly as "real", but the two younger ones seem so much more vivid. I loved the line in Caspian about the bears who ate other animals vs. bears who ate honey and berries. That was so brilliant.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

You'll like them even more in Dawn Treader, then. :D And that was a great line!* I also like the part about bear that wanted Little Girl for dinner. And in another vein, I like how Peter and Edmund are first received at the How. That's just... so neat. As they say, like Arthur coming back.

* It makes perfect sense, too. Although I have to wonder; I've heard several places that the old mountain men, who had their pick of wild game, said that cougar was absolutely the best. And there's no way that cougars had anything but meat. Interesting!

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

Fascinating about cougar. I would tend to think wildcat would be tough, which would turn me off to finding out the flavour!

The Little Girl line was great too. Such a gentle but clever sense of humour! I love it.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Hah! I guess when you're attacked and it's kill or be killed, you'd have little option. And if you end up alive, then you'd have a nice fresh carcass - why not try it? :D Cougar bites are supposed to be pretty bad, too. As meat-eaters they had rotten flesh on their fangs, so bites became easily infected. Another reason to think they'd make disgusting eating. But not so! Crazy.

The whole romp through the town of Beruna was one of my favorite parts when I was younger. Nasty little boys turning into pigs! Wow!

[ruthette.livejournal.com]

I thought you were saving the series for later! Or did I skim wrong...?

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

You skimmed wrong.

*cackle*

[ruthette.livejournal.com]

Dang it!