So, yesterday I cooked a whole chicken in my crockpot. I saved the broth, and this morning I skimmed the fat off of it. What, I thought, can I make with about half a cup of chicken fat? I consulted with my sister, the lovely longpig , who suggested (along with some other things) biscuits! Genius! Since all my milk was old, I looked for some buttermilk biscuit recipes to alter, and tried...

Yar! I am posting this here in case anyone other than me has questions about the session tomorrow! Feel free to add yours in the comments. The other reason I am posting here is that some questions may be more suitably answered by longpig than by curtana since it is Ilphere's partay! Mes questions: 1. Has the Vallon Consort been asked to play at the party? If so, in what capacity...

Previous Chapters and Series Notes here Annnnnnnd we're back. Sorry for the extra delay, but school has started up, and I have less time to write even short things. The series wil continue, but I am not going to be able to promise a section a week - hopefull I can manage one every two. We shall see! Thanks this time to my sister, longpig for betaing, as earis is in the midst of...

Okay, so the happiest coincidence in all of this was finally meeting longpig  and her Mr.!  They are so easy to talk to and get along with, and despite my friends not having met them before or knowing them, we were all able to easily connect and play Citadels!  Win!  Yay for awesome Hazel and Ian, and their bee tattoos and memeshirts! The drive back went rather well, and so did checkout. ...

Poison pie. Sounds scary doesn't it? I designed this pie in a very geeky fashion for a LARP. I wanted a pie that people might be a little afraid to eat, and then it would be soooo delicious they couldn't help themselves... despite that taste of almonds and the curious burning in their mouth.... Poison Pie... or Dark Chocolate Almond Pie with a Kick This is a variation on a dark chocolate pecan...

Since we were away on Arthur's actual birthday, I'm doing his birthday round-up post belatedly this year. ladyiolanthe , the Playmobil sets were a big hit, and we all think the dragon is especially cool :) longpig , Starscream has arrived safely, and is very awesome - Arthur took him to bed with him last night ;) It's actually possible that over the past year we didn't take a picture...

I saw these linked on Tastespotting last week, and I wasn't going to let the opportunity to make them slip by, so I bought some streaky bacon and crisped the hell out of it on the grill! The original recipe is from Cooking During Stolen Moments , and it turned out great! They're a bit like the Alton Brown Chewey/Thin cookies, but with added maple-bacony goodness :) I took half the recipe aside...

I was sure that either me or longpig had posted this recipe before, but I couldn't find it in a search..... So I'm posting it again just in case! This is a very delicious spice cake. It's really easy and quick to make. I would say that it is in the same family as carrot cake....as in it is a delicious spice cake made with an ingredient you might not expect! A lot of the time, I won't tell...

I was talking to my lovely sister longpig this morning about the theme this month, and remarking on all the lavender entries. I am biased against lavender, as I'm really allergic! I was trying to think about what other kinds of edible flowers I might have access to, when I remembered my hibiscus tea... I adapted my recipe from an orange cranberry scone recipe posted here by ...

Havocstan player event - awesome swan song for Rhienfelden.  Awesome event for everyone, AFAIK, in fact - food was good, mulled cider was readily available, the setting was gorgeous, the contrabando was plentiful, the alcohol even more so... Rob's  new character, Maximillian Hartley, got off to a flying start, and Lilith has finally been "found" (as in, I think I know, after only a year of play, what...