…ting quite so many recipes, but I couldn’t resist this one when Anh put it online as part of the Delicious Vietnam blogging event (a collection of blog posts celebrating the food of Vietnam, which incidentally has my own bì cuốn–and which netted me Luke Nguyen’s Indochine cookbook when I won the prize draw!). Bánh chuối nướng literally means grilled banana cake (see how my vocabulary is improving? :D). Have I got your attention now? By and large,…

…t at the same time and all made of yummy! (most recipes for this I’ve seen online use nước màu, Vietnamese caramel sauce)   Ga xao sa ot: grilled chicken with chillies and lemongrass Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: Vietnamese Author: Aliette de Bodard Prep time: 40 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 1 hour Serves: 4 A fiery chicken dish Ingredients 500g chicken 2 stalks lemongrass, chopped finely 2 heaped teaspoons sugar Generous sprinkling of black p…

…omplicated, 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 need only 15…

…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…

…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….

…Quite happy to announce that my Xuya BCS story “A Salvaging of Ghosts” is going to be reprinted in Jonathan Strahan’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (complete TOC here), and in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (complete TOC here courtesy of Lavie Tidhar). It was originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies for their science fantasy issue: you can read it online here….

…ugh Hawthorn’s corridors. Will Thuan and Kim Cuc survive and succeed? Read Online! If you’ve already read and enjoyed it, why not try The House of Binding Thorns , in which you get to meet again Thuan (aka, the queer, bookish dragon prince with amazing talent for getting himself into trouble), as well as a host of other characters? (or you can also pick up the full issue of Uncanny Magazine, which has fiction by Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowa…

…r is “about as well as you can imagine”). Anyway, I’m pleased to announce I’ve sold the story to Scott Andrews at Beneath Ceaseless Skies for their ten-year-anniversary issue, and that it’ll appear in late September online. (although set in the existing universe of Dominion of the Fallen, it should be completely standalone–as evidenced by the fact that Scott, who’d read neither of the novels, liked it enough to buy :))…