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Discovered during deep excavation into the recesses of LJ, using archive.org...

SLOGANIFY.

(My favourite so far: Get the Copperbadge Habit. Either that or Any Time, Any Place, Copperbadge.)

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And one more fanfic this morning...

The Impressionist Mechanism, Harry Potter, PG rated, Lupincentric. I believe I wrote this for a FictionAlley writing contest, and somehow it never made it to Storyteller.

I think one of my favourite parts of the comments was vimeslady protesting that she didn't want to like Remus Lupin, but I was going to make her like Remus Lupin...*grins*

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Okay, so there was a minor explosion. Minor!

Here's the story: Except for a couple of deeply Westernised bentos I basically lived on take-away this week, which doesn't make me or my stomach happy, but there were so many dishes and I really hate doing dishes by hand.

So today I thought, I'll do all the dishes, and I had many dishwashing-related epiphanies not the least of which is that I have been Doing It Wrong. I think I've corrected that problem. So there I was, with all the dishes that would fit on my rack drying there, and I had a cookie sheet and some time to spare and I thought, I will cook something. This is in preparation for tomorrow when I will in fact cook everything.

I'd bought some crescent roll dough, which for those of you not living in areas that sell this is a canister of dough that unrolls into triangles. You roll the triangles up into little faux-croissants and bake them. la_rainette is staring in horror at her screen as she reads this. It was on sale!

Anyway, I took the crescent rolls and unrolled them and spread half with pumpkin butter and the other half with garlic aioli mustard. Then I rolled them up and put them in to bake, forgetting that pumpkin butter reaches nuclear fusion temperatures in record time. While I was in the other room, tidying, one of the crescent rolls sort of...okay, yes, exploded.

But there was no fire! Which puts me one up on mum, who once set our kitchen ablaze microwaving actual croissants (we had a microwave that doubled as a convection oven, she put them in to crisp up, hit the Microwave button by mistake).

To be fair to my side, the remaining non-exploded pumpkin rolls were delicious eaten with butter. The garlic-aoli rolls have just a hint of spicy garlic to them and I thought they might be good with cheese, but one bite of the rolls with some chaourcet disabused me of that notion. Really quality cheese just points up the chemical-preservative tang of the rolls. Some cheap cheddar spread will be good with them, though, I think.

Also, did you know they sell brie in logs now? Hand to god. I can't find a link to prove it to you, but I have a log of brie in my fridge as we speak.

Next up, as soon as the washed pots dry off: ADVENTURES IN YOGHURT MAKING.

Don't worry, I have a machine! And yoghurt almost never explodes.

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I was totally going to make yoghurt, and then I thought, I should get eight or nine hundred words down for NaNo.

And then it knocked me over with a stick and ran away with four hours of my time and 2200 words and a new character that I didn't even intend to create.

Point being, there's a new chapter-start up at jack_and_ellis. Chapter thirty-three: Purva serves tea, Clare Makes A Friend, and someone's on to Jack Baker...

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Well, the yoghurt is nonexplosively in the machine and the baked french toast ramekins are ramekinning along in the fridge until tomorrow morning. Hurrah for getting things done!

Tomorrow is a day to finish tidying the living room, roomba the kitchen, and cook a whole pile of food for the week. I'm making lemon curd to stir into the yoghurt and take to work, since this whole "7up and a Snickers for breakfast" madness has to stop. The baked french toast is a new recipe involving slightly stale bread, cream cheese cubes, and an egg-milk custard thing with maple syrup mixed in. If the recipe's any good, I'll post it.

I'm also making chicken pies, a variation on the deconstructed stuffing pies I made two weeks ago: minced bacon, shallots, ground chicken, walnuts, and possibly some kind of sauce, in pie crust. I'm roasting a game hen and making stuffing, and if there's time I'll make dirty rice with chopped wild-boar sausage. Also, I think it was maeritrae who linked me to a recipe for Baked Beans And Toast Pie, which looks terrifying but could be fun.

Now I'm going to go make myself that drink that I was owed from yesterday.