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Curried lentil shepherd’s pie
Posting so I can bookmark.

1 cup lentils
1 half package of frozen onions (equiv of one chopped onion) + 2 cloves garlic, minced
1 package (2 cups) mushrooms
½ package frozen spinach (about 2 cups)
1 package frozen peas and carrots (about 2 cups)
3 cups mashed potatoes (also need salt, pepper, dried onions and garlic for this)
1 jar of korma sauce (it was about 20 oz)
2 cups of Greek yogurt
1 package (16 oz) shredded cheese—I used cheddar

Cook the lentils (these were regular lentils, so about 15 minutes). Then in a different pan saute the onions and garlic; add the mushrooms and saute until softened, then add the (defrosted) frozen spinach and saute for a couple more minutes. Then add the lentils and about 4/5 of the korma sauce and saute for a couple more minutes. Put this mixture in a greased large (9 by 13) baking pan. Defrost the peas and carrots and to that add a mixture of the remaining korma sauce and ½ cup of the Greek yogurt, with a couple teaspoons of hot water. (I put all this in the jar and shook it up until blended and then poured on the defrosted peas and carrots). Spread a thin layer of peas and carrots on top of the lentil mixture.

Then do the mashed potatoes. (I just used instant, so I did my usual: 3 cups instant mashed potatoes, 3 cups boiling water, 1 tsp each dried onions and dried garlic, salt and pepper to taste, and the rest of the Greek yogurt). Spread the mashed potatoes over the peas and carrots evenly, then spread the cheese over the potatoes. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Stolen from facebook, and I'm saving it here so it's bookmarkable:
Cranberry Brie Sourdough Pull-Apart Bread
Ingredients:
1 round sourdough bread loaf
1 cup cranberry sauce (homemade or store-bought)
8 oz Brie cheese, cut into small pieces
2 tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: additional rosemary for garnish
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Using a sharp knife, carefully cut the sourdough loaf into a crosshatch pattern, making deep cuts but not slicing all the way through the bottom.
Place the bread on the prepared baking sheet. Gently pull apart the cuts to create space for the filling.
In a mixing bowl, combine the cranberry sauce, Brie cheese, and chopped rosemary. Season with salt and pepper.
Spoon the cranberry and cheese mixture generously into the cuts of the bread, making sure to fill each section.
Brush the melted butter all over the top and sides of the bread.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the bread is golden brown.
Remove from the oven, garnish with additional rosemary if desired, and serve warm.
Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cooking Time: 25 minutes | Total Time: 40 minutes

Relenafanel was asking for Yiling Patriarch recs, and it turns out a have quite a few!

Looking through my bookmarks for "Yiling Patriarch," I seem to have a lot of "Lan Zhan is forced to marry the Yiling Patriarch to win the war" stories. Of those, my absolute favorite is Cicer's "Love, in fire and in blood" (which does feature, at least at the beginning, a dangerous and mysterious Yiling Patriarch). This is a super-long, super slow burn story where Lan Zhan starts off really fearing the Yiling Patriarch but is absolutely determined to be a good spouse; as he learns more about his mysterious husband, he begins to realize the complicated plots against him.

Cicer has several different takes on this trope; Hold Me Fast, Fear me not is a kind of Tamlin fusion where Lan Zhan has an encounter with the dangerous Yiling Patriarch whose lands are taking over the cultivation world; he sleeps with him to gain some rare healing herbs and has to deal with the consequences.

She also has a more humorous take on this trope; in "Spider Lilies to Sunflowers" when the Yiling Patriarch tries to scare Lan Zhan (who wants YP to defeat the Wen for his clan) by demanding his first-born child in return, Lan Zhan basically bullies the hapless "demon" into marriage.

Some other "marrying the scary Yiling Patriarch" stories :

Makkurokuro93, Demon's Paramour has Lan Zhan offer himself to the demon Yiling Patriarch to save his brother's life. Lan Xichen is dying of grief after his husband Jiang Wanyin has died, and only the Yiling Patriarch can help. Probably the most ambiguous Yiling Patriarch of this rec list (Wei Ying is an actual demon), and has a bittersweet ending.

Sunandships' To Porcelain, to ivory, to steel is a sort of game-of-thrones-ish story where the Yiling Patriarch is offered the beautiful Lan Zhan by Jin Guangshan in return for his support in the battle against Wen Ruohan, not realizing that the Jin have basically stolen the throne from the Lan.

Alliandra, Caught between sun and shadows, Lan Zhan marries the mysterious masked Yiling Laozu in return for his help for the war. His brother is distraught but he's falling for him slowly. Bonus resentacles when the sex finally happens.

Iliacquer, Tie a Knife with a ribbon. Though Zewujun is reluctant to agree, Lan Zhan sells himself to the Yiling Patriarch to win the war.

Iliacquer, The Shadow of a name in skin Wei Ying sacrifices his knowledge of his own humanity--becoming only the Yiling Patriarch--to save the Wens, but Lan Zhan tries to bring him back.

Protos_metazu_ison, Old Foreshadows . The Yiling Patriarch, an infamous demonic cultivator who died centuries ago, is summoned by a secret ritual when the sects are on the verge of losing the war to the Wen. Interesting spin on the Mo Xuanyu sacrifice summons, and also interesting backstory (in a previous lifetime) of Lan Zhan and Wei Ying.

nikefemme, To soar with the wind and waves . Still a WIP, but a fascinating, Imperial-ish AU where Lan Zhan (who cannot speak) has lived most of his life as a hostage in Lanling, and is given to the Yiling Patriarch as a bride. Lots of complicated court politics and very slow burn.

Dr. Panda99, Your heart of shadows, your eyes like stars , in which Lan Zhan is an omega on the run for his life, and he makes a deal with the mysterious immortal Yiling Patriarch to save his family, only he also finds himself attracted to the friendly alpha Wei Ying.

Sassyblue, Pitiful Destiny, Point your finger at me Lan Zhan was an imperial prince on the run; marrying the YP was his best shot at freedom. Features identity porn.

Porcupine Girl's #WarPrizeJi Season Lan Zhan thinks Wei Ying died in the war, so when the sects decide to send offerings to the mysterious Yiling Patriarch, he offers himself as tribute. (Started as a threadfic; this one has a lot of humor).

Fairy tale AUs:

Fayhe, Rare the Man who will hold to faith is a Gawain and the Green Knight AU where Lan Zhan perhaps foolishly challenges the Yiling Patriarch for his insolence, and is allowed one strike at him if he will allow the same in a year and a day. An honorable man, he travels to fulfill his bargain but finds himself falling in love with the Patriarch's spouse, Wei Ying. This is completely lovely and one of my favorite stories.

Westiec's Married to the Demon Not technically a Yiling Patriarch story--in this one a female Wei Ying is the Demon of Qishan, drafted by Wen Ruohan, who takes female Lan Zhan as her war prize, of course with the hidden agenda of overthrowing Wen Ruohan.

Threeings' What Resembles the Grave is a Beauty and the Beast AU, featuring the Yiling Patriarch as the Beast and Lan Zhan as Beauty. Wei Ying is cursed, and the cultivation world thinks he's a demon. Features a sentient Demon Slumbering Cave.

Overmountainmeadow's When the Deep Purple Heaven turns blue is a sort of Cinderella pastiche, where the Yiling Patriarch seems to be working for Wen Ruohan and Lan Zhan is playing the role of Cinderella.

AUs where the focus is on the Yiling Patriarch as a great leader/sect builder :

Esama's Grave Dirt is one of my favorites for the Yiling Patriarch competence porn. It focuses a lot on how Wei Ying copes with suddenly finding himself a sect leader and the inventions he creates to make that possible.

MarbleGlove's Everyone has a braincell of their own series, which starts out with Wen Qing and Wei Ying strategizing on how to get surgery to heal Wen Ning and Wei Ying, and leads to a lot of interesting changes.

I know there's a lot of attention right now to Twitter's implosion and possible alternative sites,but I'm actually a little more worried about pinboard going down--there's a discussion of this here.

I have backed up my bookmarks, of course, but are there any alternative social networking bookmark places? I do get a ton of my reading recs from pinboard, either my own network or just generally searching the site, and that's the part I'd really hate to lose. Also, I don't even know a lot of people in my network; I just followed them because they bookmark cool stuff, and wouldn't really know how to find them again if pinboard goes down.

I'm making this post mostly so I can pin it; if anyone in my network wants to leave a comment for how to find you in the future (or DM me), or has suggestions about where to migrate in the event that pinboard collapses, I'd appreciate it!

Edited to add:

A couple suggestions for alternate sites: raindrop.io, which is bookmarking, not social.

Also, the current first comment here talks about someone developing a new social bookmarking site. (Direct link in case the comments change significantly: https://ln.ht/ ).

LATER EDIT:
Here's a pretty good review comparing pinboard to raindrop.io: https://dsalo.info/pinboard-vs-raindrop-two-bookmark-apps-enter/

So it's been kind of a weird month. In April I might have had a TIA (transient ischemic attack), or perhaps it was a panic attack, or the neurosurgeon today said it could have been a complex migraine (brief weakness on the right side of my body) that sent me to the ER, where a head CT revealed I have 4 meningiomas (benign brain tumors), so I was hospitalized overnight for a bunch of tests, including an MRI, and was referred to a UCSF neurosurgeon.

I had the meeting with him today (over zoom) and the good news is that I probably don't need brain surgery? Which is good, because I made the mistake of googling, and...the potential side effects are not good even if it's successful. My brother the ER nurse says afterwards people almost always develop seizure disorders. The neurosurgeon asked a lot of questions about potential symptoms that could be caused by the location of the specific tumors, and I don't have any, so mostly it's watch and wait and get another MRI in 6 months and then annually to see if they're growing. Which is good because the location of one makes it mainly inoperable. But that one is also wrapped around my carotid artery, which is the most concerning thing, and I need another CT angiogram to see how concerning. So.

Anyway, I haven't really posted about this on namespace social media and I'm not sure I want to, but I wanted to tell someone, so I'm telling you all. It's kind of a lot. I guess better news than it could be, but still a lot.

Weirdly I found out on the Untamed tag on tumblr (where I'm kind of living these days) that Destiel is now canon? Or something? People still watching SPN, could you elaborate? (I am aware of this tweet: https://twitter.com/khirnari/status/1324531574944210947).

I was going to binge watch Stranger Things tomorrow, but I might have to wait, because new canon would interfere with me wallowing in all my Spider-man big emotions. Many many spoilers behind the cut. ( Read more... )

I'm trying a resolution to include more poetry in my life, so have a poem:

Morning Poem
by Mary Oliver


Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again

and fasten themselves to the high branches—
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands

of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead—
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging—

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted—

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.

Since my last review was more "where can fandom go from here," this one is mainly things I loved about the film. (Probably will do the opposite later this weekend). Serious Avengers: Endgame spoilers below.

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It's been a hundred years since I posted, so have a meme. I was only going to do the top ten, but I have a million ties, so....:

Tied for 1:
Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
Adopting/Raising a Baby
Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
Enemies to Friends to Lovers
Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
Seemingly Unrequited Pining
And They Were Roommates!

Tied for 9:
Body Swapping
Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
Polyamory
Friends to Lovers
Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
Hot Single Parent(s)
Found Families