Sooo, What's the Deal on the Fic?

Chopped Home Edition

Brought to you by "This Canned Chicken Life"

Monday night, we find our chef sifting through the freezer.  Once upon a time she would need to move things around to see what might be on the shelf.

This is not a problem for her now.  

While not completely bare, she is able to quickly ascertain that the contents of the freezer have reached the level of seeing everything upon opening.  A blessing?  A curse?  Who knows!

Fried cauliflower for dinner perhaps?  Pakora?  Or chicken salad on toast?  Yes, that sounds good.  Easy, simple after a day's work.  But she knows she can do better.  She can up the ante and then she thinks 'what about homemade chicken nuggets... and using the last potates to make fries...'

And so she does.  

Using the pancake, waffle, biscuit mix + corn starch, paprika, onion powder, garlic salt, garlic powder and maybe a couple others, she seasons her batter mix.  Adds a bit of soda and vinegar to it.  

Forks her way through the drained can of chicken, she considers blending the meat to break it down further but who wants the added things to clean.  Fork it is.  Then seasoning and some other magic in between...  A dinner is produced.  

My rating

Chicken nuggets - 6 out of 10 

    THOUGH they taste better the next day with being reheated in the oven.. 7.5 out of 10 

Fries - 8.8 out of 10

Getting creative with what I had on deck - 7 out of 10

Overall Chopped Difficulty - 3.5 out of 10 

 

Really... Where's the Fic Update?

 

Chopped... Home Edition is brought to you by Pancake, Waffle, and Biscuit Mix... When You're Out of Flour, Your Next Best Bet

Last week I made a pumpkin pie using the forgotten can of pumpkin and a can of sweetened condensed milk (I think I might have still been out of sugar BUT had brown sugar).

Out of flour BUT had the pancake, waffle, and biscuit mix so I used that to make my crust.

As far as ingenuity with using what I had on hand to make this it wasn't entirely difficult.  

My ratings:

Pie - 7 out of 10

Getting creative with what I had on deck - 7 out of 10

Overall Chopped Difficulty - 2 out of 10 

It's Wednesday... Do You Know Where Your Fic Is?

 Still waiting to be revised and posted.  

I'm going to work on it after this post...

And I didn't.  LOL I wrote that line, got a phone call and abandoned it all!

In other news, service this past week was great and involving Amy Carnie, the healing harpist.  I recommend checking out some of her stuff once you get ahold of something.  And once you have...  Get in a nice spot, maybe your bedroom, closing your eyes and just listening.   

Going to head to bed.  There's about 10 days of September left.  

I SHALL FINISH A PROJECT!

^_^

Focus on the things I did today

 I woke up.  I showered. Attended zoom meeting...  Went to work...

Currently watching UB and the VMA's.  Watching the VMA's sort of happened on accident when I caught some of Lil Wayne's performance.  

At any rate, got feedback on my assignment from yesterday and hadn't thought about the fact that there is just about an app for everything and could've utilized one for my audio editing.  Like I knew how to do some things in this realm on ProTools and was stuck on using it.  

Part of finishing my edit and posting the latest ch. of ACOFAR I intend to look at different tools.  

Not getting to today's assignment.  

Feeling a bit eh at the moment.  

The Writer Barbie Assignment

 Today...

I attended the first day of workshop for the Aliti group.

Now I've created video's before and audio stuff.  Though with the audio, ProTools is nice or I'm at least a bit familiar with being able to produce some better sound quality.  

That said I like what I came up with for the assignment.  And grateful that I was able to find a tool to create the video as well as informed about pixaby and pexels.

I've sent in the assignment and posting it here too-

Oye, let me work on ACOFAR.  I plan to release the latest chapter on Wednesday.

Weekend Update ... The Nun II ... Chicken Noodle Soup

 If I were to make that title into a sentence:

"The Chicken Noodle Soup Weekend Update with The Nun II" 

OR

"The Nun II Chicken Noodle Soup Weekend Update"

Weekend Update:

1.  Complete edit of latest chapter of ACOFAR

- Still editing

2. Complete Grant Report

- Went to the movies BUT did clean up and pulling down the report I need to populate; also cleaned up a bit today to help with gathering things I need.  I stuck some receipts with my travel to TN last year in my sketch book

3. Price mannequin bust

- So, I inquired about a couple mannequins yesterday but also kept thinking that I might not be searching for the right thing and after a bit of googling came across the word(s) I needed.  

FYI - 10 Types Of Mannequins/ Dummy For Clothes You Can Use For Your Store (fashinza.com)

On ebay, dress forms (plus shipping) is $100 plus.  I did find a thrift story about an hour away that has one, it might be 'the one'.  

Oye, I made some chicken noodle soup this weekend.  Made my own base broth (started with ginger, one white onion, and 2 carrots plus a chicken breast).  I didn't have celery initially so I cooked it as is but after I got off work yesterday I stopped and got some celery.  So today I cooked it with some celery.  Broth taste good ^_^  I scooped out the veggies (thinking I might blend them or just eat 'em myself) and put a couple handfuls of the homestyle egg noodles into the broth and shredded the chicken.  

I like having broth or the soup on hand.  I'll make more stock later this week.  

Also, there's something going around.

Lastly, in being in the moment and in ze now, we went to go see 'The Nun II'.  Though, if there wasn't part of you already thinking 'it's time to do a binge of the movies in the Conjuring universe', that bit of a snipped after the credits roll might have you considering it.  

I think there might be another Nun movie.  That said, I don't think I saw the first one.  

I got in some really good notes for TGM last night.  

Also, todays' service was filled with some synchronistic insight and great reminders.  For me, some time ago, I gave thought to the various times I'd broken my own heart.  Thus, the recent slowing down to write some things out (like creating custom clothing for fun).  

Makin' it happen.  Off to read, study, then watch some tv.

The Subtle Nudges

 

My hair has certifiably gone into locke mode. /random

Oye, so I got a kudos for ACOFAR today.  A couple weeks ago there was a very nice lenghthy comment about it.  And considered I haven't updated the fic in almost a year these feel like those little nudges of 'hey... I'm here.  Update me.'

I didn't get to adding to ACOFAR today.  Tomorrow I shall.  I am going to make myself some cushion.  So I will work on it and do a bit world-building for TGM.  Woo woo.

As far as progress for the weekend items:

- I'm still working on the ACOFAR ch. edit

- I blocked time tomorrow for the grant report

- I looked around CL for mannequins and did a very light google check for local clothing store closures.  Also think I'll call a few department stores just to see

Okay, going to make some notes for TGM and then eat while watching some UB on Netflix.  

ze boo boo is still a'healing.