…Add the remaining tablespoon fish sauce and swirl to make sure it’s absorbed. Add the crushed peanuts, the sesame and the tablespoon honey, wait for the honey to become liquid again, and mix well. Cook until golden. Garnish with coriander and serve with rice. 3.1.09  …

…m was super complicated, and that I should therefore abstain. But then I found a recipe online, and I saw that they’re not complicated to make. They’re just… an investment. Not in ingredients (it’s basically sugar and chestnuts) or in supplies (you need a metal colander, a large saucepan, and you’re set), but in time. See, this is a recipe that requires 7 days from start to finish. Before you run away screaming: on each of those seven days you’ll…

…nto the body that belonged to her all along; into the arms of her family. “Come on, come on,” the women whisper, and their voices are stronger than any other noise; than Jason’s breath in the bedroom; than the motors of the floaters or the vague smell of garlic from the kitchen. “Come on, great-aunt!” She is more than this body; more than this constrained life–her thoughts spread out, encompassing hangars and living quarters; and the liquid weight…

…to recycle it. Afterwards, I got a little creative with the recipe I found online, because it didn’t correspond to the ingredients I had in my fridge. It turned out quite good, actually 🙂 Stuffed mushrooms with grated cheese Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: Fusion Author: Aliette de Bodard Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 40 mins Serves: 3 Winter vegetables put together in a scrumptious dish. Ingredients 6 large white mushrooms 1 red pe…

Pretty pretty cover (link here if you’re reading the LJ/DW mirrors). Upcoming from Fata Libelli, end of the year. The artist, Omar Moreno, is also working on a cover for the Xuya collection, “El Ciclo de Xuya”. PS: I’m not *quite* back online full time. The household has caught the crud, and we have a few RL problems (scheduling issues with the snakelet, our childminder and the H. Nothing serious!) which means this blog will get toned down even m…

…iction for Tangent Online, there were a number of pieces that were so dependent on US/UK culture that I didn’t understand what was going on, and where I had to google to get at least an inkling of what the author was getting at–even set in the future, those stories depended, for instance, on current US politics and current societal concerns; stuff that was just bewilderingly mysterious to me. And, to date, I’m still pretty sure there’s stuff I ent…

…t: -Very happy to see that three stories of mine made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading list (along with many, many other friends’ stories): “The Breath of War” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, “A Slow Unfurling of Truth” in Carbide-Tipped Pens, and “The Frost on Jade Buds” in Solaris Rising 3. Particularly proud about “The Breath of War”, which got two stars from the reviewer. -Meanwhile, The House of Shattered Wings, my forthcoming novel from Go…

…Just a heads-up that, following further experimentation, the muffins: a. turned out much better, and b. came from a much simpler recipe (in essence, bread, yeast, water and salt). I’ve posted the process online, if you’re interested….

…Just a brief reminder that the Nebula Awards deadline is tomorrow, if you’re a SFWA member and want to suggest stuff (and make your voice heard, because the awards are about the voters and what they love), now is the time to go vote. If you’re still looking for stuff to read, my awards consideration post has a lot of stories you can read online for free (and great, diverse stuff). It’s here….

…nd it, with its accompanied mysticism, its prizing of avatars and things found online and its search for hacks, new levels and new sensations (which reminded me of MMORPGs and Second Life). (a few minor quibbles: I wasn’t quite sold on the idea of racial memory, or on the idea you could tell someone’s racial mark-up just by looking at them–as a diasporan, the elevated mysticism and mythology that develops around the lost land of Japan feels very a…