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I've been running through the D&D Savage Tide adventure path with a few other intrepid souls. I'd posted something to the game-board when we ran into some flesh golems, and I'm preserving it here before I take it down there - ad copy for a product Our Heroes might have liked even more if we didn't have a damage-dealer like my dwarf:

"It's days like this I wish I'd stocked up on Golembane!"

Do golems have you down?
Are they tearing up your town?
Do you need to keep them out?
Give Golembane a shout!
Add it to your grout,
feed it to your trout,
put it in your moat,
use it on your boat!
Golembane!


When used as directed. Please only use this product as directed by your mayor, your doctor, your doctor's mayor, your mayor's doctor, or a committee of all of the above. Most results can be seen in the first 1d6 rounds of combat. If your golem problem persists, please contact your local heroes for further assistance. If you are the local heroes, please write a nice epitaph for your headstone as soon as possible.

Adventures in Cooking

I've gotten in a fair amount of cooking this week. Not all of it has been from scratch, but enough of it has had the feel of creating that I can't object about that. I look in my kitchen, full of vinegars and spices and herbs, and in my The Fridge filled with tamari and teriyaki and a variety of mustards and jarred crushed ginger, and I know that my cooking is generally two to three removes from raising and/or hunting my own food. I'm exceedingly glad I don't have to rely on my hunting and gathering skills, as I'm much better shopping for King Arthur flour than collecting sheaves of wheat. And yes, I do think King Arthur flour is that good. I've seen lower gluten bread flours than their all purpose.

This week more of my cooking has gone to baked beans, but I also had a bit of fun with potstickers and made my very own fresh hand-breaded fried cod. So without further ado, the baked beans project, which can take a good 10 hours to cook although most of them you can spend doing other things. Like sleeping.

( Project 1: Baked Beans. With Beef! )

Cut for those of you who don't want the recipe. For my vegan friends, simply remove the beef and oil and change the vinegar over to balsamic, the industrial stuff as opposed to the kind you eat on your strawberries.