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madbaker ([personal profile] madbaker) wrote2025-12-14 12:00 pm

Do Not Pass Sugo

This week's Resolution Recipe: Mushroom Sugo.
"I discovered I wasn’t using nearly enough wine or cream when I stewed mushrooms... there is constantly a quart of mushroom sugo in my refrigerator at home, to be used in any number of applications."
You're also not using nearly enough garlic. )
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madbaker ([personal profile] madbaker) wrote2025-12-08 11:35 am

Seupa the Day

This week's Resolution Recipe: Seupa Vapellenentse (Savoy Cabbage Soup.)
"Like French onion soup went skiing in the Alps and came back heartier."
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madbaker ([personal profile] madbaker) wrote2025-12-07 11:07 am
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Friday the wife and I went to North Beach. We had a decent dinner at one of the many Italian eateries. (This one didn't seem too touristy, at least.) It was vaguely amusing part-listening in to the couple next to us on their first date.

We went to a comedy club after. We were reasonably early, so it was a short line. Went through the portable metal detector; the wife followed me and it went off. At which point they wanded me. Um, what? I took it with good grace, because while it didn't make sense I wasn't trying to sneak anything in.

The first of my two-drink minimum wasn't very good. As might be expected for a comedy club bar.
The two openers were okay, nothing to write home about. The headliner was funny but not side-splitting.

All in all, it was a good date out.
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hrj ([personal profile] hrj) wrote2025-12-07 11:00 am
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Contemplating Memoirs

Lately I've been thinking about starting a Scrivener file of memoirs. Not necessarily with specific plans to do anything with it, but just to organize some of the writing I've done that I think other people might be interested in.

One thing contributing to these thoughts is my "analyze the Best Related Work" category and looking at published memoirs, but it's not like I think I'm operating at that level.

I pulled up my Dreamwidth tag "personal history and philosophy" and laughed to see that the second most recent post under that tag was a similar rumination where I noted that I'd put together a spreadsheet of links to DW posts that I thought fall in the category of memoir-worthy. Well. So. That will make assembling the Scrivener file easier!

As I noted in that post, I have a lot of posts on writing philosophy and technique in my Alpennia blog that I'd need to identify separately, but that might be of more interest to people than random natterings.

What I don't know is whether that interest actually exists. I mean: *I* think I'm pretty darned good at a turn of phrase and interesting angle on things, but maybe I'm deluded? I'd like to think I write a lot of interesting things in this blog and in the Alpannia blog, but how can I tell unless people have interacted with me about them?

ETA: LOL, and of course, having followed up on that supposed "list of memoir-worthy blog posts" I can't for the life of me figure out where, or under what name, I saved it! Fortunately, I guess I can reconstruct it using the same process.
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madbaker ([personal profile] madbaker) wrote2025-12-04 11:41 am

Oh, No, I said "Steamed Hams"

Ten points for correctly placing the post title.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Steamed Clams in Black Bean Sauce.
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