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[rabidsamfan]

I'm here. But I'm tired, and I can't seem to shake it. And I keep reading old murder mysteries instead of fanfic.

In other news, I have now made my first pot roast.

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[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

Congrats on pot roast - most excellent comfort food. LJ is Very Quiet - it's so nice to see a sign of life. Hi!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

With gravy too. Well, kind of thin, strange gravy. But it's brown and it pours!

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

Counts as gravy in my book. Mine is usually thick with lumps. But tastes great.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I do know how to prevent minimize lumps. Mix the flour and warm water really really good with a whisk before you pour it into the drippings.

But how it tastes is all that really matters.

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

My mom has stood over me over many a Thanksgiving dinner prep, saying just that - after decades (truly) I finally can whisk the flour/water mix under a faucet with a fork. It's the smooth pouring into the hot liquid that is my doom. Lumps and clumps... but the flavor is divine!

Pot roast is sounding very good.

Hey - what murder mystery?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Some of the Inspector Felse books -- particularly The Grass Widow's Tale (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006BUYTK/qid=1107488567/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2941658-9243037?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) and Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0751512338/qid=1107488735/sr=1-66/ref=sr_1_66/103-2941658-9243037?v=glance&s=books), though I'm really looking for my copy of Never Pick Up Hitchhikers. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688030491/qid=1107488945/sr=1-200/ref=sr_1_200/103-2941658-9243037?v=glance&s=books)

And I just dove straight through Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9997528824/qid=1107489024/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2941658-9243037?v=glance&s=books). There's a quote from it a few entries back in the book meme, if you're interested at all.

And of course I've been re-reading Sayers too...

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

Don't know those - except, of course, for Sayers. Ahh, Lord Peter!

Hillerman and Cornwell are favorites... Hmm. Could use a new mystery series.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

These are actually old mystery series. But very enjoyable. And if you've never read the Brother Cadfael's you're in for a treat. Ellis Peters is very good at evoking time and place.

[dreamflower]

I love Brother Cadfael. In fact, I love him so much that my SCA persona is set in his town of Shrewsbury, and I've incorporated him into my persona story.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

You know the Felse-series? Wonderful - I love them.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I like some of the books she wrote which aren't in any series too. Do you know Never Pick Up Hitchhikers? Or The City of Gold and Shadows? yum!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

No... I know her Felse-series and her Cadfael-series - of course. BTW - there are a dozen of wonderful british BBC- TV-movies with Cadfael-stories (Cadfael is played by Derek Jacobi). I have put them on my birthday wish list...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I love the Derek Jacobi series. Although I like the first Hugh Beringar better than the second one. DJ also did a couple of the books as books on tape.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Although I like the first Hugh Beringar better than the second one.

I do, too.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

P.S.

Whisk. Whisk. Whisk. Whisk! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=blended&field-keywords=whisk&pg=1/ref=s_b_xs_ap_pp/103-2941658-9243037)

(Actually, I don't see one the shape mine is... sort of like a spring and flat on the end. But they definitely work better than a fork.)

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

You're assuming far too much organization in my kitchen - or in my last minute feast preps! It's a scurry and a flurry at that point!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

My whisk is as much a part of my kitchen junk drawer as my spatula... I use it for everything from scrambled eggs on out.

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

*covets*

Hmm. If I were seeking a gadget (not that a springy whisk is one!), I've thought that one of those mini electric mixer/whiskers - just the single stem with a beater, battery powered, would be a very useful thing.

That gravy of mine has in some years required being put through a blender...

[dreamflower]

I made a pot roast the other day in my crock pot. With just the two of us it's made sandwiches for nearly a week. I adore my crock pot.