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beansideHave a little Duran Duran to start your week! It's Monday and back to work day. I had a good weekend, but I'm still sad to see it end. I could probably use one more day to loaf around.
Yesterday morning, I started out making everyone breakfast. Jess had bacon, since they don't like mushrooms or eggs, but for my sister and myself, I made a mushroom and bacon omelette. It turned out very well, and looked almost restaurant quality.
Omelettes never look that good in pictures. That's the one I made for my sister with a bite out of it.
Then, last night, Jess cooked short ribs and baked beets for dinner, both of which were amazing.
We've been getting seasonings from this company called Kinders. I got one on a whim, their barbecue sauce, because it was only 24oz, where everything else on Sam's was 48+. And while I love me some BBQ sauce, I don't love it 48oz worth, nor do I have room in my fridge for that shit. It was 100% amazing. Sweet, smoky, tangy. Just what I want in a bbq sauce. So, we got some other sauces, which were also very good. Just this week, I got two of their seasoning mixes. One is called Buttery Steakhouse, and it seems tasty, but I need to try it on the meat. Second was Woodfired Garlic, and OMG, it is so good. It smells like a campfire, but on the meat, it gives it this amazing smoky flavor. Jess put it on the ribs, and it was so good. Today, we shall have hamburgers, and if I get ambitious, potatoes. Depends on if I have the energy to pull out the airfryer.
Tonight, it'll be hamburgers. I'm debating between the merits of frying vs baking. Baking is certainly easier, but I haven't had a fried homemade hamburger in like 5 years? Maybe longer? I could try the steakhouse rub in the meat, I suppose. See how that is.
Tomorrow, I'll probably spend my lunch break chopping vegetables for the beef bourguignon. I'm looking forward to tackling Julia Child's recipe.
We played Strixhaven yesterday, and it's amazign the difference between character backstory and how it plays out. I'd planned on making the character a surly goth girl, but I'm incapable of being surly, so instead, I have a very practical but sweet character. She's a touch weird, but mostly just tired.
I wrote a backstory that she was the bastard child of a minor lord, and had spent her childhood happily playing with the servant children, but as soon as she started to develop, he slammed her into ettiquite classes and finishing classes, in the hopes of her snagging a richer husband. She turned out to be a little too weird, and sat on the sidelines for all the dances. In an argument with one of the other lord's children, she lashed out and her powers came into their own and nailed the girl she'd been fighting with.
What it's played out as is that the father is Very Important (TM). Her mother was a great beauty, so he accepted Bryony in the hopes that she'd be the same. She is lovely, and her singing voice is beautiful, but her weirdness is a constant disappointment. Once it became obvious that she could be an asset, she was handed off to a string of tutors and assistants who tried to mold her into the perfect demure trophy daughter. It didn't come easily. She could fake it, but eventually, her natural weirdness would come out.
As the years have gone on, she's become curious about her particular brand of magic, and is hoping that at Magic College she can find out more about her lineage, and maybe feel closer to her long absent mother.
Okay, I have definitely babbled enough. Have the very best Monday that you can Monday!
Yesterday morning, I started out making everyone breakfast. Jess had bacon, since they don't like mushrooms or eggs, but for my sister and myself, I made a mushroom and bacon omelette. It turned out very well, and looked almost restaurant quality.
Omelettes never look that good in pictures. That's the one I made for my sister with a bite out of it.
Then, last night, Jess cooked short ribs and baked beets for dinner, both of which were amazing.
We've been getting seasonings from this company called Kinders. I got one on a whim, their barbecue sauce, because it was only 24oz, where everything else on Sam's was 48+. And while I love me some BBQ sauce, I don't love it 48oz worth, nor do I have room in my fridge for that shit. It was 100% amazing. Sweet, smoky, tangy. Just what I want in a bbq sauce. So, we got some other sauces, which were also very good. Just this week, I got two of their seasoning mixes. One is called Buttery Steakhouse, and it seems tasty, but I need to try it on the meat. Second was Woodfired Garlic, and OMG, it is so good. It smells like a campfire, but on the meat, it gives it this amazing smoky flavor. Jess put it on the ribs, and it was so good. Today, we shall have hamburgers, and if I get ambitious, potatoes. Depends on if I have the energy to pull out the airfryer.
Tonight, it'll be hamburgers. I'm debating between the merits of frying vs baking. Baking is certainly easier, but I haven't had a fried homemade hamburger in like 5 years? Maybe longer? I could try the steakhouse rub in the meat, I suppose. See how that is.
Tomorrow, I'll probably spend my lunch break chopping vegetables for the beef bourguignon. I'm looking forward to tackling Julia Child's recipe.
We played Strixhaven yesterday, and it's amazign the difference between character backstory and how it plays out. I'd planned on making the character a surly goth girl, but I'm incapable of being surly, so instead, I have a very practical but sweet character. She's a touch weird, but mostly just tired.
I wrote a backstory that she was the bastard child of a minor lord, and had spent her childhood happily playing with the servant children, but as soon as she started to develop, he slammed her into ettiquite classes and finishing classes, in the hopes of her snagging a richer husband. She turned out to be a little too weird, and sat on the sidelines for all the dances. In an argument with one of the other lord's children, she lashed out and her powers came into their own and nailed the girl she'd been fighting with.
What it's played out as is that the father is Very Important (TM). Her mother was a great beauty, so he accepted Bryony in the hopes that she'd be the same. She is lovely, and her singing voice is beautiful, but her weirdness is a constant disappointment. Once it became obvious that she could be an asset, she was handed off to a string of tutors and assistants who tried to mold her into the perfect demure trophy daughter. It didn't come easily. She could fake it, but eventually, her natural weirdness would come out.
As the years have gone on, she's become curious about her particular brand of magic, and is hoping that at Magic College she can find out more about her lineage, and maybe feel closer to her long absent mother.
Okay, I have definitely babbled enough. Have the very best Monday that you can Monday!
