Well Baked
Jan. 4th, 2019 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_raven Today I am making plantain-chocolate chip muffins. I bought some plantains on impulse and then couldn't remember what brilliant idea I'd had in the grocery store, so they sat around on the counter getting blacker and blacker, until this morning when I thought, "These are almost entirely black on the outside. Should be perfect for bread or something." Normally I am kind of uncreative with plantains and just spritz them with olive oil, dust them generously with Tony Chachere's and make chips.
I used this recipe from Plantains and Challah - and combined it with another recipe linked at the top for spinach and zucchini muffins. I didn't have any spinach and I'm trying to use up food before we leave. I DID have zucchinis so I grated them up in the food processor (the extra grated zukes went into the freezer for use in smoothies) then added the oil and processed until fairly smooth, then threw the peeled plantains in and gave it a few pulses. My muffins have some chunks of plantain in them but it doesn't detract. Actually I wish I'd added some chopped walnuts or something for more texture, but next time.
This list of 100 SF/F Novels You Should Read This Year is going around, apparently partly to undermine my decision not to buy new books, and I'm a little surprised at how few of them I've read. But then I'm also kind of NOT surprised because my reading habits have spread out from just scifi and fantasy and there's only so much I can read at once. There's also a certain creative self-protection there, because it's difficult for me to focus on developing my world when reading about someone else's. Also, there's the obligatory dude in the comments pissing and moaning about how many of the authors featured are feeeeeeeeeeemales. (Yes, you should hear that as if it were spoken by a Ferengi)
Tomorrow is my last training run for Disney and I am so tired of training and I just want to get to the race .... *whine* Eight miles at an easy pace should take me four or five episodes of Attack on Titan. I know from last year I'll have some down time for reading and chilling, so I'm bringing my Chromebook along to read KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr by John Crowley. I'm already familiar with Crowley's writing style so I'm finding this a very engaging story. Crowley's work also rewards careful reading so I'm taking my time with it. If you're into dark mythopoetic works and crows, this may be something you will like.
I used this recipe from Plantains and Challah - and combined it with another recipe linked at the top for spinach and zucchini muffins. I didn't have any spinach and I'm trying to use up food before we leave. I DID have zucchinis so I grated them up in the food processor (the extra grated zukes went into the freezer for use in smoothies) then added the oil and processed until fairly smooth, then threw the peeled plantains in and gave it a few pulses. My muffins have some chunks of plantain in them but it doesn't detract. Actually I wish I'd added some chopped walnuts or something for more texture, but next time.
This list of 100 SF/F Novels You Should Read This Year is going around, apparently partly to undermine my decision not to buy new books, and I'm a little surprised at how few of them I've read. But then I'm also kind of NOT surprised because my reading habits have spread out from just scifi and fantasy and there's only so much I can read at once. There's also a certain creative self-protection there, because it's difficult for me to focus on developing my world when reading about someone else's. Also, there's the obligatory dude in the comments pissing and moaning about how many of the authors featured are feeeeeeeeeeemales. (Yes, you should hear that as if it were spoken by a Ferengi)
Tomorrow is my last training run for Disney and I am so tired of training and I just want to get to the race .... *whine* Eight miles at an easy pace should take me four or five episodes of Attack on Titan. I know from last year I'll have some down time for reading and chilling, so I'm bringing my Chromebook along to read KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr by John Crowley. I'm already familiar with Crowley's writing style so I'm finding this a very engaging story. Crowley's work also rewards careful reading so I'm taking my time with it. If you're into dark mythopoetic works and crows, this may be something you will like.
