Hey, anyone have a suggestion of a recipe for using up a bottle of clementine chili flavoured Italian soda? Drink turned out to be more disgusting to me than I assumed (one of those whim purchases to try every offered flavor). I’m thinking maybe using it in a meat glaze/marinade. But anyone have an actual recipe idea?
I know soda marinades are A Thing, but I’ve never tried it myself. You could maybe modify an orange chicken marinade recipe, that seems like the right flavor profile.
Yeah- I have a recipe from my mom who got it from …somewhere, where you make the absolute best baked whole chicken by using a can of Coke-Cola. Pour the soda over the chicken to create this great carmalized glaze, use can itself to prop up the cleaned chicken, bake in oven, voila.
But yeah, I figure there has to be plenty of sweet orange and chili sauce/flavor recipes out there – just not sure what exact meat and culinary region to follow.
HEGET OMG this looks like Ms Frizzle’s jewelery box…in the best possible way, of course 😀 I am EXTRA jealous of the multicolor mouse earrings!
These are cats, actually (though I do have a pair of gold mouse/rats with dangling tails) – though the rat bracelet matched perfectly (and I have tons of cat necklaces too). And yes, my aim to have a Frizzle-like arrayment of appropriate themes.
Christmas is the easier holiday to fine tacky charm bracelets- though I have bats and cats and witch’s hats for Halloween – 4th of July/American Independence is hardest and one I want most, after Star Wars (OH HOW I WANT VADER OR MINI DEATH STAR OR X-WING EARRINGS TO WEAR W/ ALL MY T-SHIRTS). I wear one of the two sets of British necklaces on that day though, to be horribly ironic (and it’s a personal tradition).
The pineapples were too big to make into earrings, alas!
I love the pattern mixing! I have the same problem with bracelets, too, haha, I inherited my mom’s tiny baby hands.
I’m not very daring when it comes to color mixing (I have a pair of coral pants I bought two months ago because I love the color and have sweaters and shirts in the same coral red/pink for various lengths/weathers and jewelry – but it daunts me to wear bright colored bottoms.) And ugh yes- tiny hands and tiny-ass wrists. I wish I could wear all the rings I own, but most of the time size 6 is is too big, and I need watches that are adjustable or the hinged metal bands – and blocky styles don’t work (big bib/collar style necklaces however, I learned a few years back really work for me). As for earrings- over half are made from charms for charm bracelets – I have a lot of fun things – my current favs are the gnomes.
It’s been nice and relaxing – and I have pizza and tiramisu cake to look forward to in a few minutes. 🙂 (drinking a glass of the prickly pear Italian soda right now. The theme-y-ness was completely accidental)
Actually laughed aloud (it was soft and very short, but it happened)
perfect description
swampdiamonds said: My initial assumption was mid-30s, I think, but eventually narrowed down to “a year or two older than me”, which I see I was right about!
kazaera said: …for some weird reason I assumed you were like ten years older than that at first and then wasn’t sure. No idea why!
yavieriel said: I thought you were 24 for some reason, probably I reversed things – I’m 26, so that’s still a two-year difference, just in the opposite direction. I’m quite terrible at remembering numbers, especially for a math teacher.
mahidevrans said: I thought you were in your late thirties. Oops
I love this! I laughed at the goat-beards and the “make way for ducklings” song—how cute!
Uinen makes me think of ducks. Ducks make me think of those countless examples of momma ducks + ducklings stopping traffic to cross streets – and that it would be the essence of the Teleri to help ducks and drop what they’re doing to assist and watch them.
Eärwen is very young in this, so her doesn’t recognize any of the erotic overtones – but elves I can’t see as prudish. Not particularly lustful and adultery and causal sex as something complete foreign to them, but a lot of sensual songs. And yeah, i still don’t know how I head-canon concepts of elves and beards, as I can’t picture any elf aside from Círdan and Mahtan with one.
AAAAAAAAAAW ❤ So lovely, thank you so much! Imagining Earwen growing up among elder women and being taught by them is a wonderful image…. And you capture the culture and essence of the Teleri perfectly, as always…
I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT! The second I saw the prompt I knew I wanted to write Eärwen with women. Aw, thank you for saying I captured the Teleri culture/essence (sometimes I wonder if I have actual sea longing, or just that I feel my identity is strongly attached to the shoreline and sailors). But yes, that the Teleri are the Lindar, they should be constantly singing and singing together. That their songs would reflect their culture and have elements of playfulness and simple joy, but also that elves use song for magic, and they are supreme craftsmen at what they need. That the wives and daughters were the ones to weave the cloth and rope for the ships, Swan-ship or not, so Eärwen must have woven much of it herself, so I wondered why that element of her skills wasn’t brought up more. Also went with linen instead of another canvas because I figured the elves have plenty of time to craft, and for the association with purity. And Ilsë and her unnamed wife decided to join in.
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