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Listening to "The Third Wave" on CHUO Podcast (here) ft a short interview with Amber Dawn. Huzzah! :-D
The show last night went really well. Thank all the gods. :-)
Amber Dawn says that VoV - or at least what VoV does - is important. I totally agree (obviously), but it's really, really nice to hear it coming from a writer who I look up to. :-)
I bought a giant[1] green cabbage today, on the basis that, for thirty-nine cents/pound, I could afford to experiment a bit with that particularly stalwart member of the brasicca family.
What I did with (a small fraction of) it:
1 tbsp butter
2 C sliced and diced cabbage
1/4 C diced yellow onion
1/2 C white wine (Iniskillin late-autumn Riesling, om-nom-nom)
1 apple, cored and diced (from Ghost's parents' trees)
1 clove minced garlic
1 tbsp pecan crumbles
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp each: ground ginger, and nutmeg
2 tbsp chevre
Put everything in a sauce pan EXCEPT the chevre. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat (significantly) and allow to simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
Dump onto plate, add chevre, and serve.
I served mine with a pork chop. Om-nom-nom. :-D
I think a hint of grainy mustard + the option of adding sliced pre-boiled beets would both work nicely with this dish. Whee! :-D
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In other news, I am totally procrastinating. I'm on my second glass of wine (which isn't saying much, given that it's barely started but, given that I'm a total light weight, it's not saying very little either) and, while I've blogged a whole bunch (VoV redux, Urban Meliad, and a Syrens post about "bullying"), I haven't actually done my nano yet. At all.
A little (big) part of my brain is just screaming "I don't WANNA write 6000 words!!!" but I'm far enough behind that this is basically what I'd need to do. :-P
21,671. That's how many words I need to have written about power exchange by the end of Sunday. I'm currently at just over 1/3 of that, just to give you an idea.
O.O
So, yeah. It's a little bit daunting. Part of me is telling myself to just approach this like Nablopomo[2] and try to write LONG posts every day, but not beat myself up if they top out at, like, 1300 words. Or something. Which, yeah, won't get Nano won. But does stand a reasonable chance of getting me to write stuff more frequently. Which is kind of the goal[3].
Anyway. Onwards. Scribblescribblescribble.
[1] For a given value of "giant". It's certainly one of the largest vegetables I've ever purchased, though I've grown a few squashes that totally out-did it.
[2] Which I'm doing (or trying to do) for Urban Meliad -- you just post SOMETHING every day for the entire month, it doesn't come with a required word-count.
[3] Along with, y'know, drafting a book manuscript. ;-)
The show last night went really well. Thank all the gods. :-)
Amber Dawn says that VoV - or at least what VoV does - is important. I totally agree (obviously), but it's really, really nice to hear it coming from a writer who I look up to. :-)
I bought a giant[1] green cabbage today, on the basis that, for thirty-nine cents/pound, I could afford to experiment a bit with that particularly stalwart member of the brasicca family.
What I did with (a small fraction of) it:
1 tbsp butter
2 C sliced and diced cabbage
1/4 C diced yellow onion
1/2 C white wine (Iniskillin late-autumn Riesling, om-nom-nom)
1 apple, cored and diced (from Ghost's parents' trees)
1 clove minced garlic
1 tbsp pecan crumbles
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp each: ground ginger, and nutmeg
2 tbsp chevre
Put everything in a sauce pan EXCEPT the chevre. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat (significantly) and allow to simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
Dump onto plate, add chevre, and serve.
I served mine with a pork chop. Om-nom-nom. :-D
I think a hint of grainy mustard + the option of adding sliced pre-boiled beets would both work nicely with this dish. Whee! :-D
*~*~*~*~*
In other news, I am totally procrastinating. I'm on my second glass of wine (which isn't saying much, given that it's barely started but, given that I'm a total light weight, it's not saying very little either) and, while I've blogged a whole bunch (VoV redux, Urban Meliad, and a Syrens post about "bullying"), I haven't actually done my nano yet. At all.
A little (big) part of my brain is just screaming "I don't WANNA write 6000 words!!!" but I'm far enough behind that this is basically what I'd need to do. :-P
21,671. That's how many words I need to have written about power exchange by the end of Sunday. I'm currently at just over 1/3 of that, just to give you an idea.
O.O
So, yeah. It's a little bit daunting. Part of me is telling myself to just approach this like Nablopomo[2] and try to write LONG posts every day, but not beat myself up if they top out at, like, 1300 words. Or something. Which, yeah, won't get Nano won. But does stand a reasonable chance of getting me to write stuff more frequently. Which is kind of the goal[3].
Anyway. Onwards. Scribblescribblescribble.
[1] For a given value of "giant". It's certainly one of the largest vegetables I've ever purchased, though I've grown a few squashes that totally out-did it.
[2] Which I'm doing (or trying to do) for Urban Meliad -- you just post SOMETHING every day for the entire month, it doesn't come with a required word-count.
[3] Along with, y'know, drafting a book manuscript. ;-)
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