~Entering the Unknown~

hi, muse. you can come back now. please.

It makes me so sad that while I care about you, sometimes, I just don't. When I say 'just fucking post'- that's ALL I mean. Just. Do. It.

oh, self. a new character already and you're hardly playing the latest to your repertoire. please prioritize.

feeling like your lines are all quickly going to be destroyed, especially from outside influences.
feeling like your kids just don't seem to flourish in a community but not having the guts or the place to escape to.

between_worlds

A seriously cracked out and stupidly active game.

Canon Future Gen goes back in time to 1996 to find that the stories they grew up hearing from their parents have all been changed. The Blacks run the Ministry of Magic and Voldemort disappeared in 1980. Nothing is the way it's supposed to be.

→ Premise ♠ Rules ♠ Available ♠ Wanted ♠ Taken ←
→ Application ♠ Hogwarts Information ♠ Drop Box ←

Most Wanted Characters Include:
Orion and Alphard Black, Rodolphus Lestrange, Harry Potter, Ted Tonks, Aberforth Dumbledore, Frank and Neville Longbottom, Pansy Malfoy, Dorcas Meadows, Alecto and Amycus Carrow, Arthur, Bill and Fred Weasley, Fabian Prewett, Rolf and Newt Scamander, Edward Selwynn, Susan Bones, Orsino Thruston, Heathcote Barbary, Gideon Crumb, Herman Wintringham, Stubby Boardman, Millicent Bagnold, Augustus Rookwood, Priam Travers, plus Lily Luna Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Hugo, Louis and Fred Weasley from the future and original characters!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bullcar.asp

Photographs purportedly show a bull being transported in an automobile.

Feeling insecure. :(

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091122.html

What caused this outburst of V838 Mon?

I liked the look of that game until you added premades. Do we really have that short of an attention span that we can't be trusted to create our own characters without preset guidelines?

Realism in rp - If you want your unemployed, public high school character to buy a car, fine. I'll even accept her parents buying it for her because it happens. But why on Earth would you give her a brand new car worth almost double the average median income in that area only to have her get rid of it for another brand new one a few weeks later? There is being spoilt and there is being insanely unbelievable.

I know you have at least 6 different people at this community. You make it obvious when you sign on, and off at the same time. So please stop trying to make me think you aren't around and that's why you constantly blow off the scenes you ask me to start. If you don't want to write, please don't make me waste my time starting scenes that will never get touched. Thank you.

http://community.livejournal.com/cooking/8151822.html

tonight i felt like having a nice roast dinner. first i took a pre-marinated beef strip loin roast and seared in browned butter



in a dutch oven pot i put in about 8 whole shallots, 2 sliced leeks, and 1 large bulb/piece of an elephant garlic that i couldn't wait to use



i sliced the garlic into pieces, then added 1 can of Guinness, a dash of salt and pepper, and some worchestershire sauce. put the seared roast in the middle.



cooked at 325°F until done. set aside to rest while i scooped out the veggies. made a gravy out of the remaining stock. i added the shallots to some brussel sprouts that have been steamed with minced garlic and Tony Chachere's and tossed with some butter.

http://community.livejournal.com/cooking/8151702.html

I've tasted it.. I remember it was GOOD!!! But I dont know how to make it... Its pumpkin spice pie and had cranberries in it.. Anybody know what I'm talking about??? And if ya do can ya tell me how to make it?? Recipes anyone??

IC actions = IC consequences.

Don't poke the bee hive if you don't have something to fight them off with, duh!

Or you could just run. Oh, wait! That's exactly what you did! Stirred up shit, then backed out cause it didn't go your way!

TOODLES! -finger waves-

I just want to finish this scene, it's pretty damn important to the development of our line. maybe I'm the only one that feels that way...

what is the point of joining a com when someone else is accepted but you're denied and the mod(s) won't tell you why? also i waited for two days, anixously might i add, for a yes or no and the only way i found out i was denied is because i got emails saying i was declined from the other coms and i saw both my app and question had been deleted as well. i mean it's not easy to fuck up the app it's simple yet someone else got in while i was denied. so much for joining a com after a year of being out of them.

i'm tired of being jerked around and being made to feel second best. i'm just tired of it.

how do you tell someone that you really don't want any sort of flirty or romantic line with their character, because their PB makes you want to punch babies?

One Shots:
pre_raphaelite1: Alternatives - (Morfin/Quirrell, Voldemort/Quirrell, NC-17)
alisanne: Malfoy Mistletoe - (Lucius/Hermione, Severus/Harry/Draco, PG)

Works In Progress:
jordangrant: Owned - was updated with part 103/? (Harry/Draco, NC-17 *warnings*

Drabbles:
alisanne: Reminder - (Severus/Harry, PG)
lilyseyes: Sweet Kisses - (Severus/Harry, R)
alisanne: Too Good to Hide - (Severus/Harry, PG)
alisanne: Boggart - (Neville/?, PG)
alisanne: Dangerous - (Neville/Bill, Kingsley/Charlie, Severus/Harry, R)
enchanted_jae: Of Glistening Holes and Pulsating Organs - (Harry/Draco, PG13)

Community News:
snape100: Posted their latest Challenge

Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Posted their Satuday Edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Alastor Moody Special Edition
snapenews: Posted their latest edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Sunday edition

Various:
severus_sighs: Author and Artist interviews - Dementor Delta

Other:
angela_snape: Rug Burns - (Severus/Harry, R) (Drabbles,)

If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gourmeted/~3/Sy-buKgadKY/

http://gourmeted.com/?p=1638

This is my ode to the beet. I love it. It is good steamed/boiled, but why stop there? Surely the humble, yet provocatively deep red-colored, beet has more to offer beyond the boundaries of salads, or worse, as a natural red food color. The result of an evening of inspiration and creativity was this Creamy Sweet Beet Pie with Hazelnut Crust. The yogurt syrup makes it even better. Oh my! Even the beet skeptic might be swayed to the beat of the beet!

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Like a northern snowbird, I headed south last week. To get used to the time, I had this not-so-great idea to tough it out on my first night: stay up, finish writing this, get some work done, and be early to bed the next evening to ‘reset’ my circardian rhythm. My thirty-something body, on the other hand, had other plans–like succumbing to exhaustion before midnight, not feeling my laptop slip from the bed and not hearing the heartbreaking sound of the machine hitting the hardwood floor. Nope. I had woken up in a daze at 3am, local time, and slowly realized that ACK! MY LAPTOP!!! Blood drained from my face when I saw it closed, but monitor at the bottom. #$&(*&%! I leaped from the bed to assess the damage, praying that the screen didn’t $hatter into piece$.  Thankfully, everything was still intact except for the corner dent, and most importantly: it still worked! Whew. After that, I couldn’t bring myself to push my luck in the staying-up-too-late-to-post department for the rest of the week.

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Beets, we meet again. You and your unpretentious exterior.

Your unassuming presence change once peeled and cut, and you resemble rubies or garnets.

Just looking at you make me smile. Jewels, you are.

Oh, god, I talk to vegetables. Secret’s out!

Well, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go back to being sane.

Enamored is an understatement as to how I feel about beets. I wanted to do something more than roasting and boiling them for salads. When I got more beets, I had PIE in my mind, thanks to the  apple pie and pumpkin pie I had in rotation in the kitchen, so pie it is.

For the crust, I wasn’t feeling the flaky dough crust, so I decided on a graham cracker crust. Well, well, guess who ran out of graham crackers (or crumbs)? Haha. I still had whole hazelnuts, so I ground them into powder consistency and added wheat germ and butter.

The ground-nut crust was borne out of last month’s almond-grinding for the macarons. Since then, I’ve ground more almonds and hazelnuts for crusts that have earned raves among family members.

The hazelnut and wheat germ crust went perfectly well with the beets.

It could have been a planet’s unattractive red surface at first glance, and I wasn’t quite confident of the outcome that I was ready to toss it if it didn’t turn out good. However, my doubts melted after I took my first bite. I was in awe of how good everything melded together. It’s an odd marriage of ingredients, spices and textures, for sure, which really made for an interesting dessert.

I wasn’t the only one taken by it, judging by how fast it disappeared from the pie plate, down to the very last crumb. And I mean…the very last.

If you haven’t had beets as a dessert, then here’s your chance! Yummy, yummy, yummy. Dare I say it’s even healthy?! I think so. :-)

Creamy Sweet Beet Pie with Hazelnut Crust and Yogurt Syrup

Ingredients:

Filling

• 500 grams fresh whole beets (approx 3-4″-diameter beets), peeled and cut into ½” cubes
• 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
• 7 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Crust

• 3.5 oz shelled hazelnuts, ground to powder consistency in a food processor
• 2 oz wheat germ
• 4 tablespoons salted butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar

Syrup

• 1/2 cup greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup icing sugar

Equipment

• food processor (for grinding hazelnuts)
• 2 small mixing bowls
• 9″ glass pie plate
• 1 baking sheet
• parchment paper
• 1 medium mixing bowl
• 1 large mixing bowl
• aluminum foil

Preparation

For the Crust:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F with the rack in the lower middle position.
2. Mix ground hazelnuts, wheat germ, brown sugar and melted butter in a small bowl to create a gritty paste.
3. Transfer onto the pie plate. Press and level against the bottom and sides of the plate with a spatula. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool on a trivet.
   Keep the oven on.

   For the Filling:

4. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Pour and spread cubed beets on the parchment paper. Bake for 10 minutes. After removing, place the oven rack in the upper middle position.
5. Put baked beets in a medium bowl and toss with lemon juice.
6. Mix flour, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg using a spatula in a large bowl. Pour beets into the mixture and toss to coat.
7. Beat eggs with heavy cream in the medium bowl from #5 with a fork. Pour over the beet and flour mixture, and stir together with a spatula until there are no dry spots left. Assembling the Pie:
   
8. Transfer the beet mixture into the pie plate with crust. Level with a spatula. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
9. Remove pie from the oven. Increase the temperature to 400°F and place the rack in the lower middle portion of the oven. Cover the pie plate with foil and return to the oven. Bake for another 10 minutes.
10. Cool the pie (still covered with foil) on the trivet for 30 minutes, then uncover and cool for 30 minutes more.

    Making the Syrup:

11. Beat the icing sugar and yogurt together until smooth.
12. Slice beet pie and serve with yogurt syrup. Instead of the yogurt syrup, you can also top with vanilla ice cream or crème fraiche.

Notes

Beet preparation: The original recipe calls for cubed fresh beets that are pre-baked to cook and dry a little to make them chewy. You can also  shave or grate the beets if you have trouble chewing or if you don’t like them chewy; and you may then skip Step #4.

Serving suggestions: You can top the pie with vanilla ice cream or crème fraiche, instead of yogurt syrup. Best served warm. Re-heat in microwave for 10 seconds before serving.

Hazelnut Crust: Very versatile and I urge you to use it with other fruits (or veggies!).

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