Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 4
August 28, 2021
Two Wild Boar Recipes
I’m putting these here so I don’t lose them (again. EYEROLL). They come out of a collection of nearly a hundred thousand Meal-Master format recipes that I accumulated/accreted over a…
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August 18, 2021
A Twitter thread
So last night I got annoyed by a clueless politician’s tweet about COVID vaccination (no, I’m not going to link to it) and told them, “Sit down, shut up, and…
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July 29, 2021
CrossingsCon 2021 is Slipping Sideways starting August 1st!
When the CrossingsCon committee initially started planning for the next CrossingsCon in 2021, nobody involved with the event would have been likely to have any real sense of what lay…
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July 22, 2021
The Mutability of (Your?) Dream
(Every now and then the need to tell this story comes up. I mentioned it one time on Tumblr, and thought I’d better import it over here so that (a)…
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June 13, 2021
Two new bread pans: a report
We’ve been using the standard garden-variety North American style of home bread-baking pan for a long time, but there comes a moment when you realize suddenly that you’ve been using…
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May 31, 2021
Triple Vanilla Ice Cream(s)
This recipe, in a number of variants, is a favorite around here. I’ve referred to it here and there online, but realized abruptly that I’d never actually posted a full…
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May 29, 2021
Mijoter
It’s just one of those words a cook really needs. Merci, la France… Les petits plats qui mijotent au coin du feu is a phrase that is used like a…
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May 16, 2021
David G. Arnold’s Lemon Drizzle Cake
Because when composers start talking about cooking, it’s smart to listen. 🙂 This bake unfolded on the Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/dduane/status/136... 1/2 Equal weight of eggs butter sugar flour .…
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March 26, 2021
Borges and the Peryton
(I’ve copied this post over here from its original location at Tumblr for those who’re not wild about visiting there and having to deal with their data permissions.) A question…
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March 16, 2021
The Martini Rant
Everybody gets all hot under the collar about the composition and mixology details of James Bond’s (usually) favorite mixed drink. But one piece of Bondian lore about the drink that…
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