Cooking ||| 30 Day Writing (RP!) Meme: Day Fourteen

[thistlechaser]

Why, oh why, do people use cornflakes as breadcrumbs? I used my last chicken breast from the pack I bought last week (frozen until today), and made it in a different way. Cut into strips, stuck in buttermilk for an hour, then breaded in cornflake crumbs and various spices.

The chicken itself, outside of the coating, was good. (HOLY COW, I love buttermilk! It smelled SO GOOD! I should have tasted some plain, but I didn't think of that until it was in the bowl with raw chicken in it.) However, the chicken with coating tasted like cornflakes. Nothing else, just cornflakes. Why would anyone want food that tastes like cornflakes? (Other than breakfast cereals...)

Turning the chicken tenders into chicken parm improved them enough that I ate this one serving, but I'm not sure if I'm going to eat the rest.

When I try again, I'm going to do this same thing but with plain breadcrumbs.

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14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?

Generally, if I need to keep track of places in a RP scene, I'll make a little sketch with boxes and circles and lines to give me a rough idea of how things are. This is pretty rare though, because none of the RP I've been in have been so exact about things. You could pose "Joe leaves his quarters and strolls off to the mess" or something like that.

PokeMUSH was an exception to that, as it was a world that we needed everyone to see in the same way. Funny thing is, this is the only map I remembered making. However, when I went looking for that, I found all sorts of maps I've made for PokeMUSH! Tiny little ones like:

To... the big complex one I can't find now. I'm pretty sure I made one like this one, but when you clicked on each location you'd get a popup of what pokemon could be caught there...

So, all in all, few to no maps in my personal RP. I don't feel the need to know exactly where things are and where X is in relation to Y.

List of all 30 questions here.

Comments

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

I loved our map. Made puppet hunting so much easier when I was just a player. I'm playing in a Pokemon-based LJ RP now and they haven't even bothered to complete a map/list of Pokemon locations in spite of being around since Spring. :/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! We had some good maps. :)

Is the LJ RP fun otherwise?

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

Yup! So far!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm always happy to hear there are fun Pokemon RPGs out there! :D

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I never have luck with cornflakes, either. I've tried using them a bunch of times, but I just think they're crappy as a coating. Plain old breadcrumbs are way better.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I threw the rest of the box out tonight. Plain (or Italian) ones for me from now on!

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

You should try some Italian seasoned breadcrumbs. 4C if you can find them, but since I haven't been able to find them in Texas, they might not be sold out of the northeast.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think we don't get 4C here, though I do remember them when I was living in New York. I'll try some generic/other brand Italian!

[mark356.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing! I had a cake recipe that called for breadcrumbs, but what I had was Cheerios, so I made it with Cheerio crumbs. The cake ended up just tasting like Cheerios. Not what I had in mind!

Better luck next time!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I like Cheerios... in milk. In a cake? Doesn't sound very good! However, I wonder how something like frosted flakes (or some sweetened cereal) would do?