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j-wat is officially in SW Minnesota, Upper Minnesota River Valley -- Redwood Falls. (There are falls, but no official redwoods.) He texted me photos of Fort Ridgeley, his dinner site (patio), and the spooky stairs to his room.

Now that I have, you know, the i-n-t-er... you know, again, I can listen to the dozen or so 'new to me' albums left on my list, since I do this on YouTube. Today I listened to Liege & Lief, by Fairport Convention.

This afternoon I listened to Messiah on my CD player. I can amend the 'teary' report: I start getting goosebumps at "The kingdom of this world..."

My reason for listening to it is that I just finished the book Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah.

On the DVD front, I watched North & South (Gaskell novel) last week, and have started watching Firefly.

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Three photos of food; top left, a close-up of strawberry-rhubarb crumble in a disposable pie tin. Top right, a foil-lined baking sheet full of spiced cashews, golden-brown and toasty. Bottom, a wide pan full of curried chicken salad, a vivid orange sauce tossed with chopped chicken and golden raisins.

I had a good old-fashioned cooking day today! I made strawberry-rhubarb crumble, dill-pickle cashews, and curried chicken salad (also known as Coronation Chicken). I forgot how good it was!

Despite it being a novel entirely about chefs, I decided not to put any recipes into the next Shivadh book – except for my own personal recipe for curried chicken salad. So I figured I’d share it here ahead of time, since at least one reader is planning to make it in celebration. Here’s the recipe!

“Coronation” Curried Chicken Salad
4 cups cooked chicken, shredded or chopped to preference
1 onion, diced
Oil for sautee
1 tbsp sweet curry powder (or to taste, up to about 2 tbsp)
½ cup chicken stock
1 tbsp tomato paste
2 tsp lemon juice
½ cup dried apricots, chopped (may also use raisins or other dried fruit, or exclude completely)
2 tbsp mango chutney (optional but recommended)
½ cup plain greek yogurt
½ cup mayonnaise

Please see notes on ingredients below. The recipe’s measurements and directions are intentionally imprecise, so that the chef may experiment and make the recipe their own.

Sautee the chopped onion in oil until very soft and translucent. Add in the curry powder and stir, cooking briefly, long enough for the seasoning to become aromatic, then add the chicken stock and simmer briefly.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the tomato paste, lemon juice, and diced apricots until well mixed.

Make sure the mixture has cooled somewhat, then pour into a bowl and stir in the chutney, greek yogurt, and mayonnaise. Finally, fold in the chicken and let cool; keep cold until ready to serve.

Serve on pumpernickel or rye as tea sandwiches, with a thin scrape of butter or cream cheese on the bread; may also be served over rice, or eaten straight from the bowl with a spoon if you’re hungry.

Notes:
While the chicken can be cooked as the chef desires, I usually use a mixture of white and dark meat stripped from a rotisserie or roast chicken.

Instead of chopping and sauteeing an onion, I frequently use roughly a cup of caramelized onions; instead of chopped dried apricots I frequently substitute golden raisins.

Rather than using ½ cup of each, the chef may use one cup of greek yogurt or one cup of mayonnaise; I personally find all-yogurt too dry, and all-mayo too oily.

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esteefee

I just had an interesting question from a reader, who asked what actor or famous male I was thinking of when I was visualizing my OC. I don't! I mean, I do visualize people, but they are people of my own invention (I believe). I don't think they are real people, just features I come up with.

How about any writers out there? Do you choose actors or people you know? Or do you make up your OCs in your mind palace?

astrogirl

Still working on my old bingo card. I'm determined to get it finished before I tackle the newer one. Only one more square to go, now! If only I had any faintest idea what to do with it, other than what I did with it the last time the prompt came up on one of these cards. Anybody have any suggestions for what you might like to see me write for "We're Surrounded!" that don't involve writing a lot of action or plot? I mean, I don't know what the odds of me taking any suggestions are, but at this point anything to get the ol' creative juices flowing is probably welcome.

Anyway, here's the penultimate one:

Title: Meanwhile, Donna
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
Characters/Relationships: Donna Noble & Rose Noble
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: She's forgotten something important. Again.
Tags: Episode Related, Wish World, Drabble
Length: 100 words
Author's Notes: Written for Gen Prompt Bingo, for the prompt "May morning." I have to say, I found "The Reality War" very disappointing, but I did love "Wish World" taken on its own, and how could I not write something involving it for that prompt? So, here's a drabble.

Meanwhile, Donna

Current Mood: busy

canyonwalker

I'm still sick with a cold. And I expect I will be for a few more days. But, dammit, I am sick of being too tired to relax this week. I will not let being literally sick and tired on the weekend stop me from enjoying myself! So I went out to the hot tub again this morning, like yesterday.

I'm prescribing myself a cure for the common cold: sun and warm water (Jun 2025)

I'm prescribing myself a cure for the common cold: sun and warm water (Jun 2025)

I even sat out in the sun again after enjoying a soak in the hot water.

Ironically I am a bit less tired while being sick than I was before I got sick. Maybe it's because I'm getting a bit more sleep now? At any rate, I am determined not to let this mild bout of sickness— and so far it is mild, thankfully— keep me from doing pleasurable things.

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lovelyangel

With my computer and photography budgets for 2025 getting blown out of the water, I’ve looked to cut back in other areas. I had originally planned to use my Electrify America credits (like 700 free kWh remaining) before they expire in August to take a road trip to SF – but I killed that idea.

One big unknown in the 2025 budget was what I might end up spending if TWICE went on tour this year. My budget let out a sigh of relief when the group recently announced the schedule for their THIS IS FOR World Tour, Part 1. Part 1 allocates the last half of 2025 for stops across Asia and Australia. This means that Part 2, for the Americas and Europe, won’t be until 2026. I kind of expected this as major U.S. stadiums are dedicated to American football in the fall and winter. For 2026, I’ll budget for one or two visits to concert cities in the U.S.

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部首
冂
内, inside; 册, book; 再, again; 最, most
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=13
冖
军, army; 农, agriculture; 冠, hat/crown; 冤, injustice/grievance
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=14
冫parts 1-4
冬, winter; 冰, ice; 冲, to collide with/against; 决, to decide; 况, situation; 冷, cold; 冻, to freeze; 净, clean; 准, allow/standard; 凉, cool; 减, to decrease; 凑, to gather together
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

语法
Chapter 22 quiz: 把 sentences
Chapter 23 quiz: Passive voice
Chapter 24 quiz: Comparatives
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
所, 场所, place; 所长, superintendent
台, platform; 电视台, TV station; 电台, radio station; 舞台, stage
谈, talk; 谈话, conversation; 谈判, negotiation
汤, soup
糖, sugar
特色, characteristic
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

玩玩
Two oddities from my usual people today: Zhou Shen singing around the middle of his range, which we don’t get to hear so often, in 不群, and Jiang Dunhao’s gorgeous, disturbing 我有一个朋友.

大家过得怎么样？我有点头疼。没办法啊，一起加油吧～

olivermoss

I finished up the trilogy while I was away. My main take-away is that the plot:pages ratio is wild.

( No plot spoilers, but some plot structure talk )

Ending spoilers under the other type of cut

I had trouble vibing with the way the story resolved because Alina spent way more time homesick for the Little Palace or even the army tents than where they grew up. Them not feeling like they ever had a home was a recurring theme and even a plot point. Them going back and making it a home is a lovely idea, but it's kinda sad to me that they are mostly isolated from the other survivors and just have staff that think they are loony tunes.

Also, happy or tragic I wanted more resolution for poor Nicolai, who could only really be understood by Alina or maybe Mal. Even just as friends, I wish they where still in each other's lives and not just rare visits.

In certain ways the ending was beautiful and bittersweet, but I never got the impression that that's what Alina would want from anything in the previous pages of the series. Protect the kids and get away from positions of power? Sure, but actually run the orphanage herself? Have all the other adults, besides Mal, profoundly mis-understand her? I'm glad they are together and the place is under their control, but...idk maybe I'll feel differently if I read more of the books in the series or re-read them later.

flamingsword

I’m going on a journal-cleaning spree. If we have not really interacted in the last six months, I am probably going to unsubscribe from following you. I don’t have enough spoons and free time to follow all the people I still kinda want to. I deeply resent having to prioritize some kinds of human connection below real world practical considerations, but … such is life. 😞

I also will possibly be on here less to keep up with things for the next month or two, so if you have my contact info and want me to see a post of yours, please send me a link? School is going to head back into kick-my-ass mode here in another week or two, and possibly stay there as things move from science-heavy to the business and legal classes I am required to take. 😞😞😞

I have a headache just thinking about it.

hafnia

I mean, yeah, okay, fuck it, I'm in.

let's see if I can make it more than a couple of weeks before being eaten by startup life, yeah?

flemmings

Looks like the wildfire smoke got me, in spite of there being no air quality warning. Or else I've started having hours-long anxiety attacks. Went up to Loblaws, halfway there began feeling tight-chested and dizzy, couldn't breathe deeply, and didn't get much better inside. Now sinuses are swollen but I can kind of breathe. So much for laundromat, and now of course it's raining.

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Posted by Samuel Pepys

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/06/08/

(Lord’s day). Lay till church-time in bed, and so up and to church, and there I found Mr. Mills come home out of the country again, and preached but a lazy sermon. Home and dined with my wife, and so to church again with her.

Thence walked to my Lady’s, and there supped with her, and merry, among other things, with the parrott which my Lord hath brought from the sea, which speaks very well, and cries Pall so pleasantly, that made my Lord give it my Lady Paulina; but my Lady, her mother, do not like it.

Home, and observe my man Will to walk with his cloak flung over his shoulder, like a Ruffian, which, whether it was that he might not be seen to walk along with the footboy, I know not, but I was vexed at it; and coming home, and after prayers, I did ask him where he learned that immodest garb, and he answered me that it was not immodest, or some such slight answer, at which I did give him two boxes on the ears, which I never did before, and so was after a little troubled at it.

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kaberett

Reading. FINISHED:

Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson. I can see why people like her! I have also remembered why I wound up unsubscribing from her blog. Very interesting proof of concept in re audiobooks, though.
Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché. Very enjoyable reread in which many things landed differently, in service of...
a word you've never understood, rydra_wong. EXACTLY the post-canon follow-up I wanted but would have absolutely failed to articulate. Have already tried to lure one more person into reading the book so I can then make them go read the fic. Now I just selfishly want Even More Of It.
Pain is really strange, Steve Haines. Reread for the purpose of making notes, this time. Sparked at least one useful thought. Following up references is a work in progress.
How to cook... Desserts, Leiths Cookery School. Read all the way through for the purposes of EYB indexing first pass! Go me.

STARTED:

Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Borrowed from library on a whim for low-brain non-fiction.

Writing. First pass through indexing a cookbook on EYB!

Some Actual Notes re pain for The Book, including (and I am very proud of myself for this) actually writing down my questions alongside the bare "here's what it contained".

Watching. Murderbot S01E01. I am dubious but expecting to keep watching. If you encourage me I might say more when it is not past curfew.

Cooking. ... apparently I have not managed Much Of Note this week.

Eating. POTATOES at the ALLOTMENT courtesy of ALLOTMENT FRIENDS. Also finished my choi sum and had my first AMAZING broad beans and nibbled kohlrabi speculatively, all on Tuesday.

Today I have nibbled: a cherry; the first few redcurrants; a pod's worth of Kelvedon Wonder peas; half a tiny tomato.

Making & mending. Made some progress on A's left glove. Realised, belatedly, that I'd done the same thing with picking up stitches unevenly along the two sides of the palm. Ripped back most of the way to where I started from and Sulked. BUT HEY I've remembered the pattern and where I'd stowed all the bits for it!

Growing. See Eating for my biggest excitements. Sugar Magnolia (purple sugar-snap pea) now setting pods; my main intention with it this year (given that I planted a whole packet of seeds and have wound up with ...fewer plants than that) is just to get myself sorted with a significantly larger number of seeds for next year, but hey, maybe they'll all be super productive and I'll actually get to eat some too.

Stockings now at the plot to go onto the cherry tomorrow, hopefully.

Tomatoes planted out when tiny not doing so great (i.e. have mostly disappeared). Tomatoes planted out when larger Actually Flowering. Desperately need to stake the lot of them.

Tiny single solitary surviving oca has started to Go.

V grumpy about how poorly the squash I got started A While Ago have coped with getting put outside given that they are in biodegradable fibre pots so I'm not even disturbing their roots. Getting the rest of them in the ground AND THEN SOWING MORE very much also high on tomorrow's priority list. (And the beans, augh.)

Observing. Met a neighbour!

frith

It's prompt 4 time but I wanted to try the "putting on a brave face" option in the previous prompt. There are still problems (like head was supposed to be turned slightly) but it's better than the 'funny face' attempt.

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