Any fool can use the scales

[janestarz]

Last night after Deli dropped me off at home I climbed onto my bicycle straight away to get to Steelweaver and Twi's. It might have been smarter to just take the 170 bus, which stops near her home, but I welcomed the exercise. I arrived at their apartment around 17.45, a good 25 minutes of cycling on icy bike paths later. I was glad not to have taken the recumbent at some points -- besides, the handlebars are still a bit out of alignment.

We had tea and afterward I got to work. I had offered to help weigh some rings and pack them into small zip-loc bags. It's an easy job, but it was more work than I'd done during the day at the office, where I had to nearly beg Marcel to acknowledge my existence.
At some point Steelweaver made the bread and while we were munching that, Twi came home and made us pumpkin soup. I very much enjoyed the taste, as I've never had pumpkin before, but I had a little trouble with the mushy pumpkin. I have an aversion to pudding-like textures in food. But the soup was very good, and I'd like to try my hand at that recipe some day, leaving the pumpkin to fall apart so I could get a more stew-like soup and less pudding-like chunks. It's definitely good larping food.

I left around 21.15, after having measured and weighed three kinds of rings. There are still a number of bags standing around awaiting measuring, but I'm sure Steelweaver can tackle those herself. It's not a hard job, with the stickers saying exactly how much grammes of rings each bag needs. It's just a matter of kicking yourself in the rear to do it.

I'm looking forward to this weekend, when we'll be doing a Gothic Fitted Dress day with woran.

Comments

[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

A vigorous whisking would probably have obliterated the pumpkin chunks easily enough. I agree - very good larping food (and vegan, too!). Also, the pumpkin is great set dressing for a kitchen before it goed into the soup.

[woran.livejournal.com]

I send you and stealweaver an e-mail, but as I always seem to pick the aderess that people hardly ever check, this might be faster.
I cant come on saturday due to family buisness. I would love to make a dress with you two, but I hardly see my family enough so I cant let this oppurtunity pass. And West-Zeeuws Vlaanderen is just too far away to go after we're done with dress fitting :(

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's a shame. But family is very important too! Have fun with them and enjoy. :-)

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I did get your e-mail, but it's on one address I can't access from my work. And as addicted as I may be to internet, I don't turn on my pc at 6.30 am, shame on me.

[muizenstaartje.livejournal.com]

My issue with pumpkin is that it tastes so bland. The first few bites are interesting, because I rarely eat pumpkin, but then it becomes boring if there is nothing else to spike up the taste.

But there are a lot of interesting pumpkin dishes. My fav is where you make a stew inside a pumpkin that you put in the oven. You hollow the pumpkin when you serve the stew.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

This soup had lotsa things going on on that front. There was garlic, onions, tiny red peppers and then the pumpkin. It was a very great recipe!

[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

Lets see...

Two cloves of garlic, two cm. of ginger root, two red peppers (without the seeds), one teaspoon of coriander seed and one of fennel seed (which I didn't have, so I used aniseed instead) are ground to paste with a bit of oil. Finely chop some shallots (used one regular onion instead). Dice 750 grams of pumpkin, have one liter of stock ready, 200 cc of coconut cream and 4 cardamom pods. The recipe also called for a cinnamon stick, but I forgot to add one.

Heat some oil in a pan and gently fry the shallots and spice paste for a couple of minutes. Then add the stock, cardamom, cinnamon and the pumpkin, bring to a boil and turn down the heat. Let this cook for about 30 minutes. Stir in the coconut cream and serve forth.

Originally the recipe didn't include coconut cream, but did include meat. We've been eating more vegetarian dishes lately, so this fit into that. The coconut cream seemed like a good idea (and it was).