Team Metagalactic Fruit Compote

[Alla]

Cathy M. wrote: "Alla wrote: "Does The Devil's daughter not work for 2 yellow?"

You had that one down for 6 Yellow originally. You want to change that to a different one?"

No, sorry, I looked at the wrong line on my planner *face palm* *lol* :D

[Alla]

I can dublicate 1 Green with this one:

[Alla]

I can dublicate 1 Green with this one

it has a dark green cover (at least I see that color), any objections on that?

[Cathy M.]

That does n't look green at all on my screen. We can always use that book for a regular card.

[Michele]

If interested there is a site that will tell the colors that make up a book cover. labs.tineye.com Just drag the book image into the box and it will break down the color percentages. Actually really cool!

[Alla]

Oh wow thanks Michele, never heard of that! :)

[Michele]

Alla wrote: "Oh wow thanks Michele, never heard of that! :)"

It's really cool! Your book, that looks like dark green to me as well, is actually brown and gray!

[Alla]

Oh that is cool! What I saw as dark green is actually some shade of grey!! That´s why I asked because I know people don´t often see the same colors ;)

My blue book is almost 80% blue, so that works :D

And...according to this...my yellow 7 does not make it...it´s only 48.5% yellow :(

[Michele]

Alla wrote: "Oh that is cool! What I saw as dark green is actually some shade of grey!! That´s why I asked because I know people don´t often see the same colors ;)

My blue book is almost 80% blue, so that work..."

I'm not certain you need to check all books- if it appears to be yellow to the eye I'd say use it. That's so close to 50%

[Cathy M.]

We are not using Tineye because of inconsistencies. Its ok to use personally as a gauge but that doesnt determine if we can use it. Ask on the thread if you are not sure and if captains ok it, can use. We are just using the eyeballmethod - does it look that color, and more than 50%/

Your 7 Yellow was already approved (on UNO shelf)so its fine.

[Alla]

Completion post:
Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas
04.09.20

Cards it works for:
2- Character (Tom)
3- Character (Helen)
4- Character (Foxhall)
5- Character (Ivo)
6- Character (Severin)
7- Character (St. Vincent)
8- Character (Ethan)
Skip card- Pandora
Cover 2 Blue

[Alla]

Cathy M. wrote: "We are not using Tineye because of inconsistencies. Its ok to use personally as a gauge but that doesnt determine if we can use it. Ask on the thread if you are not sure and if captains ok it, can ..."

Great! Then I´ll keep on with that :)

[Jodi]

Beautiful Disaster
By Jamie McGuire
Completed 04/08/20



Cards:
1 1st in series
2 Character that starts with T (Travis)
6 Character that starts with S (Shepley)
7 Set in a place starts with V (Vegas)
8 Set in a place starts with E (Eastern University)

[Alla]

I can read
for 1 Red after I finish my 7 Yellow.

[Michele]

Completion Post:
An Invitation to Murder by Leighann Dobbs
Completed: 4/9

Cards this works For:
1- First in series
3- Harriet (character)
4- Fairchield (surname)
5- Irvine (surname)
6- Susanna (character)
8- England (location)
9- Northbrook (surname)
Skip- Katherine (character)

[maria helena]

Great job on all the colour covers, team!

[Alla]

Completion post:
Rock chick revenge by Kristen Ashley
04.10.20

Cards it works for:
0- Character (Zano)
1- Character (Olivia)
2- Character (Tex)
3- Character (Hank)
4- Character (Frank)
5- Character (Indy)
6- Character (Shirleen)
7- Character (Vincetti)
8- Character (Eddie)
9- Character (Nightingale)
Skip card- Author (Kristen)

[Cathy M.]

Alla wrote: "Completion post:
Rock chick revenge by Kristen Ashley
04.10.20

Cards it works for:
0- Character (Zano)
1- Character (Olivia)
2- Character (Tex)
3- Character..."

Can you please add to your UNO shelf?

[Jodi]

I still got the green color covered.. no worries :)

[Cathy M.]

Jodi wrote: "I still got the green color covered.. no worries :)"

Good to hear! Thanks Jodi :)

[Cathy M.]

And since I never posted these earlier:

Completion Post

by JD Robb
Completed: 04.06.20

- 2 - C: Troy Trueheart
- 4 - C: Ryan Feeney
- 5 - C: Ian McNabb
- 6 - C: Daphne Strazza
- 8 - Title
- Skip - C: Delia Peabody

by Patricia Briggs
Completed: 04.07.20

- 0 - C: Zack
- 2 - C: Tony
- 3 - C: Adam Hauptman
- 6 - C: Warren Smith
- 8 - #8 in series
- 9 - Title
- Skip - A: Patricia Briggs
- Reverse - Read by Brandy

by Michelle Madow
Completed: 04.09.20

- 1 - #1 in series
- 2 - Title
- 8 - C: Danielle Emerson
- 9 - C: Nicole
- Skip - Title

[maria helena]

I finally finished a book!


Darkness on the Fens
4/10/20

card 4 - character Niall Farrow
card 7 - character Vinnie
card 8 - author Joy Ellis
card 9 - MC Nikki Galena

[Alla]

Cathy M. wrote: "Alla wrote: "Completion post:
Rock chick revenge by Kristen Ashley
04.10.20

Cards it works for:
0- Character (Zano)
1- Character (Olivia)
2- Character (Tex)..."

Done!

[Alla]

Completion post:
99% mine by Sally Thorne
04.11.20

Cards it works for:
0- Standalone
2- Character (Tom)
3- Character (Holly)
4- Character (Fiona)
6- Author (Sally)
7- Character (Valeska or Vince)
9- Character (Nicholson)
Skip card- Character (Keith)
7 Yellow cover

[Jodi]

Completion Post:

All The Bright Places
By Jennifer Niven
Completed 04/12/20

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Cards:
Color Blue 2 or 7
0 Stand Alone
2 Character with first name starting with T (Theodore)
4 Character with surname starting with F (Finch)
5 Set in a place that starts with I (Indiana)
7 Character with first name starting with V (Violet)
9 Author surname starts with N (Niven)

[maria helena]

4/10/20

3 - Title H
8 - author Joy Ellis
9 - character Nikki Galena

[Cathy M.]

Completion Post

by E. Lockhart
Completed: 04.11.20

- 0 - Standalone
- 4 - C: Forrest
- 5 - C: Imogen
- 6 - C: Imogen Sokoloff
- 8 - A: E. Lockhart


by Wendy Meadows
Completed: 04.12.20

Blue 7
- 4 - C: Francis
- 6 - Title
- 7 - #7 in series
- Skip - C: Pete

[Cathy M.]

Updated cover color list:

Our Color cards
4 Green - - Jodi
1 Red - - Alla
1 Yellow - - Annie
2 Yellow - - Cathy
8 Yellow - - Cathy

- Need to duplicate 2 different color cards (except for Blue)


Done
2 Blue - Used for Wild 4
7 Blue - Used for Wild 4
1 Green
2 Red
2 Red
7 Red
3 Yellow
6 Yellow
7 Yellow

[Cathy M.]

April Mini Challenge

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players. This month we are joining another team for a bake-off!

In February, you assembled your space treats and in March you embarked on your space travel. So now it is time to come back home and have a tea party with your new found treats.

◈ You can choose any recipe from a different team (found here). With that recipe in hand you need to decide as a team how to eat their treat. You do this by:

→ picking word(s) from that team's recipe to "spell-it-out" you can do this with up to 15 letters (they need to be complete words, not only spelling partial words)

→ picking word(s) from that team's recipe that you can find on the cover of books or as words in text. You can do this with up to 15 words

→ deciding what else you would like to serve at the tea party. Complete the story on the spreadsheet using book titles. (15 words) This is the story of your tea party in your own words. Be as creative as you like. You can use as much or as little of a title as you see fit.

◈ Every book read, i.e. every task completed, is worth 10 points.

◈ If you complete all your requirements for a tea party, your team will receive 30 bonus points.

◈ Share your tea party with the team that created the recipe you were given for an additional 10 points. (This means posting to their thread your tea party story)

◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
◈ Books need to be finished after the start of this mini challenge on April 12, 7pm AEST (any books now) and before May 1 at 7pm AEST (Countdown to the end of April is here)

[Alla]

Cathy M. wrote: "April Mini Challenge

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players. This month we are joining another team for a bake-off!

In February, you assembled your space treats and in March you e..."

How are we planning to do this mini challenge? :)

[Alla]

Completion post:
Moti on the water by Leylah Attar
04.13.20

Cards it works for:
0- Standalone
1- Character (Olympia)
2- Character (Teri)
3- Character (Hannah)
4- Character (Fia)
5- Character (Isabelle)
6- Character (Sandra)
7- Character (Vasilis)
8- Character (Eddie)
9- Character (Nikos)
Skip card- Character (Kassia)

[Michele]

Completion Post:
Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott
Completed 4/13

Cards this works for:
1- First in series
3- Hilde (character)
4- Fielding (surname)
5- Ingrid (character)
6- Serena (character)
8- Elliott (author surname)
9- New England (location)
Skip- Paula (character)

[Michele]

For our mini challenge, do we have any Brits or Aussies in the group?
:-)

[Cathy M.]

Don't think we do. We have Sweden, Iceland, India, and the rest of us are US.

We can just pick one of the longer recipes or one with easy words so we have more options. And then just make a list. So we will need:

- a couple words that add up to 15 letters to do a spell-it-out (same as in UNO - by title, author, characters)

- 15 words that we find on the cover or in text

- 15 book titles to write a story

We have only finished 32 books so far and it's almost the middle of the month so we're pretty far behind for the month. Unfortunately some of our team members don't seem to be participating so we'll just have to do our best. We should start with the letters & words and if we can fit in more, then try for the story.

[Alla]

Cathy M. wrote: "Don't think we do. We have Sweden, Iceland, India, and the rest of us are US.

We can just pick one of the longer recipes or one with easy words so we have more options. And then just make a list. ..."

Good plan !

[Michele]

Completion Post:
Meet Cute by Helena Hunting
Completed 4/14

Cards this works for:
0- Stand alone book
2- Trish (character)
3- Hughes (surname)
4- Felix (character)
7- Victor (character)
8- Emme (character)
Skip- Kailyn (character)
Reverse- Previously read by Alla

YELLOW COVER

[Michele]

Cathy M. wrote: "Don't think we do. We have Sweden, Iceland, India, and the rest of us are US.

We can just pick one of the longer recipes or one with easy words so we have more options. And then just make a list. ..."

Cathy- As my reading has slowed considerably please tell me what you need me to read. Thank you. Michele

[Cathy M.]

I started skimming thru the recipes and this one seems good. Lots of tools that can easily be found in books.

For part 2, just pick a word (as long as no one has picked it) and provide details.

For part 1, we just need to pick some words that we can spell out. Maybe Taste, Grams, Whisk? Was looking for words with easy letters.



VanGuard Sabayon
Makes 12 small or 6 medium servings

INGREDIENTS
6 eggs, (Yolks only)
60 grams shredded coconut
80 grams Pure Sugar
120 Grams – Dry White Wine
½ cup Thickened Cream
1 tsp cornflour
1 Vanilla Bean, seeds scraped
300 grams fresh Berries – Blueberries, Strawberries (cut diagonally)
Juice of 1 orange
270 grams of diced starfruit and Kiwifruit
2 passion fruit (Keep cold in airtight container)
Zest of 2 meteoroid limes (ask your local NASA)
2 Lady finger bananas, sliced 1 cm thick circles
Lemon juice (optional)

Garnish
Touch of Full Moon Sea Salt
1 mint leaf

KITCHEN TOOLS
A sharp knife
A large bowl made from asteroid or nickel
A medium glass bowl (24cm in diameter minimum)
A large saucepan of simmering water
A balloon whisk or Electric beater
Dessert goblets or large martini glasses
A Plate
A Spatula
A Spoon

Optional
A Pen (Mark off steps as you go)
Food handling gloves (Hygiene)


METHOD

1. About an hour before serving the dessert, rinse the berries and drain them on a plate and paper towel. Slice off the stems and halve or quarter the strawberries lengthwise, depending on size, into the glass bowl. Add the starfruit, kiwifruit and bananas. Sprinkle over a teaspoon of the sugar, the meteroroid lime zest and the orange juice; fold gently together to blend well. Taste and add more sugar or orange juice if needed, set aside to macerate.

2. Whisk the egg yolks, wine, vanilla, cornflour, cream and sugar in the asteroid/nickel bowl. Rest the bowl in the saucepan over hot water. Whisk constantly for 4 to 5 minutes or more to cook the sauce, until it has the consistency of lightly whipped cream and peaks start to form. Clear the bottom of the bowl constantly with the whisk so that the eggs do not scramble and adjust the heat as needed. Taste the sauce — the sabayon should never get so hot that you can't stick your very clean finger in it — and whisk drops of lemon juice or more sugar if you want. When thick, foamy, and tripled in volume, remove from heat. It can be served hot as is, tepid, or cool.

3. Spoon a portion of the fruit mix from the glass bowl — 1/2 cup or more — into each goblet or glass. Sprinkle a thin layer of shredded coconut on top (to your stomach/taste) then top with 1/3 to 1/2 cup of warm or cool sabayon.

4. Remove the pulp from the passionfruit.

5. Garnish with passionfruit pulp, full moon sea salt and a mint leaf

[Alla]

Completion post:
Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley
04.14.20

Cards it works for:
2- Character (Tex)
3- Character (Hank)
4- Character (Floyd)
5- Character (Indy)
6- Character (Stella)
7- Character (Vance)
8- Character (Eddie)
9- Character (Nightingale)
Skip card- Character (Kai)

[Michele]

Completion Post:
The Master Magician by Charlie Holmberg
Completed 4/14

Cards this works for:
0- Zina (character)
2- Thanes (surname)
3- Holmberg (author surname)
4- Frank (character)
6- Saraj (character)
8- Emery (character)
Skip- Prendi (surname)

[Jodi]

Just checking in.. I will have some books to post in the next few days including our final color cover.

[Cathy M.]

Completion Post

by Patricia Briggs
Completed: 04.14.20

- 0 - C: Zee
- 2 - C: Tad
- 3 - C: Mercy Hauptman
- 4 - T: Fire
- 9 - #9 in series
- Skip - A: Patricia Briggs

Mini - Part 1
P in Steps - A: Patricia Briggs

by Dawn Merriman
Completed: 04.14.20

- 0 - C: Herbert Zinderman
- 1 - #1 in series
- 3 - C: Lucas Hartley
- 4 - C: Dot Fredericks
- 6 - C: Rachel Skinner
- Skip - C: Preston

Mini - Part 1
G in GRAMS - C: Gabby

[Cathy M.]

Updated cover color list:

Our Color cards
4 Green - - Jodi
1 Red - - Alla
1 Yellow - - Annie
8 Yellow - - Cathy

- Need to duplicate 2 different color cards (except for Blue)
1 Green - - Cathy

Colors Done(view spoiler)[
2 Blue - Used for Wild 4
7 Blue - Used for Wild 4
1 Green - using for Wild 4
2 Red
2 Red
7 Red
2 Yellow
3 Yellow
6 Yellow
7 Yellow (hide spoiler)]


For Mini-challenge:
For part 1 let's spell-out Steps, Grams, and Whisk. Those should all be easy letters to fill.

Part 1:
S - Rock Chick Reckoning - Character - DONE
T - The Master Magician - Title - DONE
E - Murder by the Book - Author - -DONE
P - Fire Touched - Author - DONE
S - Three Mages and a Margarita - Character - DONE
G - MESSAGE in the BONES - character - DONE
R - Carry On - Author - DONE
A - Fighting to Breathe - Author - DONE
M - Moti on the Water - Title - DONE
S -
W - Wide Open Spaces - Title - DONE
H - Meet Cute - Author - DONE
I -
S -
K - The Au Pair Affair - Character - Cathy


Part 2 (words used):

[Alla]

Completion post:
Fighting to breathe by Aurora Rose Reynolds
04.15.20

Cards it works for:
1- #1 in a series
6- Character (Shawn)
8- Character (Elza)
Skip- Character (Ken)

Mini 1:
- Author (Aurora Rose Reynolds) or
- Character (Shawn) or
- Character (Ken)

[Michele]

Mini 1: Sunshine- "A Bad Day for Sunshine"

[Alla]

Completion post:
Wide open spaces by Aurora Rose Reynolds
04.15.20

Cards it works for:
0- Character (Zack)
1- Title?- Wide Open Spaces
2- Character (Tina)
3- Character (Hunter)
6- Character (Shelby)
8- Character (Erin)
Skip- Character (Kathleen)

Mini challenge 1:
-Author (Aurora Rose Reynolds) or
-Character (Kathleen) or
-Title (Wide Open Spaces)

[Michele]

Completion Post:
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Completed 4/15

Cards this works for:
1- First in series
2- Tyrannus (character)
4- Fiona (character)
6- Simon (character)
7- Vera (character)
8- Ebb (character)
9- Niall (character)
Skip- Penelope (character)

Mini challenge 1:
-Carry (on)
-Rainbow

[Cathy M.]

Completion Post


Completed: 04.15.20

- 0 - C: Zora
- 1 - #1 in series
- 2 - Title
- 4 - C: Felix
- 6 - C: Aaron Sinclair
- 7 - C: Victoria
- 8 - C: Ezra
- Skip - C: Kai

Mini-Challenge -
S in STEPS for Character Aaron Sinclair

[Alla]

Completion post:
One last wish by Aurora Rose Reynolds
04.16.20

Cards it works for:
0- Character Zack
2- Character (Tina)
3- #3 in a series
6- Character (Shelby)
Skip- Character (Penelope)

Mini challenge 1:
- Character (Shelby)

[Alla]

Completion post:
The boy next door by Ella James
04.16.20

Cards it works for:
1- Character (Ollie)
2- #2 in a series
3- Character (Hollis)
4- Character (Frasier)
6- Character (Smith)
7- Character (Vice)
8- Author (Ella)
9- Location (Nashville)
Skip- Character (Poppy)

Mini challenge 1:
- Character (Sarah)