Cooking of the week: Pesto chicken, artichokes, and (q-something) with wild mushrooms! (RL, WoW)

[thistlechaser]

Yay good food and good company! Once more tersa guest starred (it's a weekly thing, so maybe guest star isn't correct), and once more i wounded myself in the effort! Ha ha. :D (Thistle: Hey, this blade is sharp. *peers at bleeding hand*)

It wasn't until we started cooking that I realized I was confusing pesto with alfredo sauce (which might also have tasted good on chicken!) but the pesto was new to me and highly yummy. Cheese, garlic, and oil, what's not to like? The basil, while making it bright green, didn't seem to change the taste much at all.

Artichokes: My first time trying them! They didn't taste like much (other than the lemon butter we dipped them in, mmm), so I guess that's good. Yay another vegetable I'll eat! (Though I have to say, it was disturbing funny disturbing odd to be eating a thistle!)

(Q-something) with wild mushrooms: I've checked Firefox's history, because I know I wikied the name of the (q-something), but I can't find it now. Some tiny little round grain that was sort of like rice. I had a nibble of the mushrooms, so I can sort of say I tried it (I've never eaten any kind of mushrooms before!), but I think I really should have had more for it to count.

A+! And I bet next week is going to get an A+, too! We're going to do that 40 cloves of garlic chicken thingie. Mmm garlic.

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WoW: Meh, rough day. (PS: I've noticed anytime I step foot into Hellfire Peninsula I end up having a "meh" day.) I spent most of my online time fishing, and sadly found out that long periods of fishing make my wrist hurt. Boo. Luckily I don't have much further to go. 20 or so more levels.

I did a few quests when my arm needed a break. Yay 64! Boo mostly spinning my wheels. I ran hither and yonder but never really got much done.

And this mob? It puts the "hell" in Hellfire Peninsula. (Not my screenshot.) I swear to god, it has a taste for Thistles. ...hey, I bet it'd like artichokes.

Comments

[machinegirl.livejournal.com]

QUINOA!

I fucking LOVE quinoa. It's really good in a soup, too. I made a soup with quinoa. It makes a TON so if you try it out, you'll most likely want to share with people. :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Quinoa! That's it! And mm, that soup sounds good!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Hey, your cooking skills are improving!

I finally got around to posting your rough sketch...let me know what you want me to change on that post! I won't have time to finish it until next week, but I had to get something done today.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Only with my friend's help! :D

And yay! Woo! Thanks, looks perfect!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

(Thistle: Hey, this blade is sharp. *peers at bleeding hand*)

Reminds me of something my Mom did about a year ago. We had got a new set of knifes from the store (our old ones were really old) and when they brought them home my dad asked jokingly if they were sharp so my Mom lightly ran it across the palm of her hand (not try to cut herself) but they were really sharp. It was just another great moment for my genetic chances XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! XD From what little I know of your parents, they sound like great, fun people.

Have you called your father lately?!

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

I think the q-something you're thinking of is cous cous. It's like what you described and can be a wonderful side dish in place of rice or pasta. Granted, I usually buy a box of instant, plain cous cous and dress it up with minced vegetables.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Close! Quinoa, but cous cous is closely related, so you still get full points. :D

[teslanomaly]

NOM NOM. I had a huge basil plant (it's not supposed to get woody, but mine was that big!) last year and let it go to seed. I'm hoping that I'll have some basil volunteers this year. If I do, and they survive till I get home from Florida, I'm making a bunch of pesto to freeze and use over the winter.

Quinoa and couscous both sound possible to me. Both are damn tasty in my admittedly limited experience, so I bet dinner was great! (My advisor makes a peasant bread with quinoa flour and I really need to remember to browbeat him until he gives me the recipe.)

Dear Thistle: Taking you off the kitchen duty roster for this week. Heal up! Love, Shera ♥

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Quinoa was correct! And mmm, pesto. I hope your basil makes it!

Dear Thistle: Taking you off the kitchen duty roster for this week. Heal up! Love, Shera ♥

Heehee! :D Luckily Thistle is much much much less likely to stab/burn/whatever himself than I am!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

The Fel Reavers make the ground shake and make a certain klaxony kinda noise. I don't know if you play with sound or not, but it can help.

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, that's the nice thing about Fel Reavers versus devilsaurs. You actually get some warning, as opposeded to "OMG ninjasaur!!!11!!11one"

'Course, that's the only good thing about Fel Reavers...

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Er... opposed, not "opposeded." Doing stuff from your phone FTW.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

'Course, that's the only good thing about Fel Reavers...

*laughs* The sound they make when they hit the ground after I kill one will be a good thing, too! Just you wait! Once I get high enough level, I'm coming back and letting my cat gnaw your legs off!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I thought they only made that noise once they aggroed you.

I'm getting almost high enough level to go back and kill one! Just you wait, Fel Reavers! I-- eh, I mean my kitty is going to take you down!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting challenge taking one of those things down even at level 70. You need to do it for a quest for an instance key at 70, and when I did it, I needed a group to do.

However, Hunter's are OP, etc. so it may be doable :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, so no use trying it at least until 70. Oh well! That's two things to look forward to then. :D Flying mounts and revenge! :E

[deathchibi.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how many times that fel reaver punted me around in my WoW days. :( One time it was buggy after a patch and it SPRINTED THROUGH A HILL since its path was wrong. Guess who was on the other side of the hill mining? >_>

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

SPRINTED THROUGH A HILL

Oh now that's just not fair. D: The only (tiny!) advantage we have is that it stomps slowly along...