Dinner!

[kellan_the_tabby]

I made dinner _almost_ all by myself.

Chicken soup, courtesy (mostly) of a recipe by elfs (not that he has any idea I swiped it, but I bet he'd be pleased). Took out the celery, added corn, half a package of frozen kale and a can of stewed tomatoes. Made rye bread to go with it, which turned out well. Cheated on the bread, though; let the bread machine knead it for me. But I baked it in the oven, in the bread-pan!

Yeah, you're thinking, not so much to be impressed about. But...well, I haven't ever been so much with the cooking so. And I'm actually having fun when I don't have to run to the store at the last minute to get the chicken I forgot. :P

In other news, I feel like I've nearly entirely failed to get anything done today though looking at my previous entry ought to disabuse me of that notion, oughtn't it...?

*sigh*

But dinner, at least, is good.

Comments

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh... who's the cutie?

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[kellan_the_tabby]

Gratuitous picture I scarfed from somewhere or other. Feeling vaguely male at the moment so.

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah... And mucho congrats on the soup ^_^

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[kellan_the_tabby]

Thanks much! I'm all pleased and thing, ya know.

[cellio]

Mmm, soup. And there's nothing wrong with letting the bread machine do your work for you; what are servants for, if not to serve? :-)

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[kellan_the_tabby]

I'd probably feel more than vaguely guilty about it if I didn't have a few friends who _do_ make bread all the way by hand and tell me how cool it is. I think it's cool, too, but...yeah. I think _lots_ of things I don't have time for are cool.

I rather like your line about servants, by the way... :)

servants

[cellio]

It sounds flip, but really, we've replaced the servants of a century or more ago with automation, but it's ok to think of them as similar. Hey, we can even abuse our modern servants in ways that would not be acceptable among decent folk with actual servants. :-)

And in an SCA context (at an event, I mean), I'd much rather someone talk about his servants than about his machines -- the latter just breaks the mood unnecessarily. That might be where I picked this up, actually -- maybe it wandered from the SCA into my mundane life.

Re: servants

[kellan_the_tabby]

Yeah, I can always _kick_ my washing machine...

Which I try to avoid, but ya know.

And that's a graceful way to talk about suchthings at events - I like it far better than 'medievaloid' neologisms like 'dragon' and 'farspeaker' and 'electronic scribe'...