groupmom

For those who have go-to versions of common things like, say, meatloaf or brownies or curried chickpeas, how many recipes do you try before settling on one? Is there a point when you say "THIS. THIS is my [x]", or do you sometimes try new versions even when you have one you love? (Possibly this is a "once you've actually cooked a lot, you can look at a recipe and have a fairly good idea of what the different seasonings might add up to"?)

(I didn't help enough with any of the meals under the cuts to tag this post with YKYC, alas.)

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( meatloaf! (well, meatloaves) )

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( belated notes on a batch of black beans a month ago )

Reading: I finished and really enjoyed A Drop of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett. (Just in time to see the author's, um...deeply unfortunate contribution to the AI conversation [presumably in response to the current Worldcon fiasco {why is there pretty much always a Worldcon fiasco? It's amazing}]. >.<)

I followed that up with Mira Grant's latest, Overgrowth, which I also really enjoyed, and now I'm reading M.L. Wang's Blood Over Bright Haven.

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Watching: Extremely minimal. We saw the most recent ep. of TLoU, but I don't think we managed any of The Pitt, so I guess we'll be juggling three shows once Murderbot starts up. (We used to more routinely have multiple shows on the go, but we seem to have somehow lost the knack.) And I haven't started anything new on my own since finishing my Guardian watch-through.

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Working: I have manga deadlines both tomorrow and Tuesday, and was thankfully able to give both scripts their final polish and read-through this afternoon, so they're both turned in now.

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Linking:

--"‘Good God, It Was Fun!’ Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick Van Dyke, and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters".

--"Why Harassment Comes with the Territory of Translating Popular Manga". [io9 interviews]