Welcome! Below are links to things I've made or just enjoy.
Umbral Gaze ½
It’s early morning; our intrepid adventurers are just beginning their day. They awaken in Venron, a small inland village equilatitudinal to the southern Sword Coast, where, for one reason or another, each wound up stopping for rest the night before.
Woes of Gottlob Graal: Umbral Gaze 0
Gottlob Graal is a level-{five,ten} Watchers’ Oath paladin, a satyr, bent on avoiding a faery card sharp he pissed off years ago during a regular visit to the Feywild. He fled that plane and his native Chondalwood for Waterdeep, half a continent away, where he took up defenses against any and all extraplanar pursuers. At first he just wanted to avoid his creditor, but later, finding purpose and fraternity in the city as never before, the satyr began to feel at home. A jovial fellow, Gottlob is energetic in his late middle-age, but finds the reckless carousing of his youth a bit beyond him now.
Reading Order of The Culture
I’ve generated a reading order dependency graph for books in Iain M. Banks’ unsurpassable Sci-Fi classic, the Culture series. The idea is that if there’s an arrow from book A to book B, then to get the most possible enjoyment from either A or B, A should be read before B.
Typical Coronation Chicken
This recipe is adapted from the original recipe used for Queen Elizabeth’s “Coronation Luncheon” in 1953 and faithfully incorporates elements of several variations served around London in 2023. Most of the changes I’ve made are to ratios, but I’ve also included more fruits, omitted watercress, and used a mayonnaise/milk combination in place of whipping cream.
Unassailable Slow-Cooker Chili
This is a simple recipe of beans, tomato, and ground beef, refined across generations into the local maximum you see before you.
Amaretti (Chewy Almond Cookies)
These are genuinely excellent and surprisingly undemanding to make, particularly if you don’t beat the egg whites by hand. From start to finish, the process should take less than an hour.