Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

Hello, brave explorers! Looking for a place to call home while you explore the vast, dark, desolate space of New Eden? Looking for folk who know the game, know the lore, know the mechanics and tricks to survive and thrive in New Eden? You're looking for IKAME, a specialty corp with a focus on exploration and lore.

We're a newly-founded exploration firm operating in all classes of space from locations through-out the cluster, bringing back data and materiel for research and manufacturing. We provide:

>>> Pre-staged exploration ships for interested pilots;
>>> On-demand corporate offices in NPC null-sec regions across New Eden for med-clone relocation;
>>> Fit and training expertise for those who need it;
>>> General exploration training for new explorers or old ones returning to a new game;
>>> Links to a greater community of lore-interested and exploration-interested pilots for those looking to break into the community;
>>> Periodic cooking lessons with the CEO.

If you're interested, send Xindi Kraid and I a mail! Also, you might consider stopping by our public channel, IKAME Public.

Last night was a lazy dinner night; baked chicken breaded in panko and tarragon, sauted onions, radish, and mushrooms, and a green salad. About twenty-five minutes active time, and lots of points.

Consider this the third daily bump while I run spare exploration ships over all of New Eden.

No sauce?
You have to have a sauce.

Bump time! So-- last night's dinner was a lazy affair. After a few days of relatively proper cookery, I decided to just throw a bunch of stuff into a crock pot and let it go. Voila-- chili! So, as the miss and I have challenged ourselves to cook vegetarian at least a couple times a week to make sure we don't get into a rut, it was a vegetarian chili. I know that's a sin, but, well, it was still tasty, especially as I did very little work with this one.

Components:
Black and pinto beans.
Two small onions.
Three bell peppers (one each green, yellow, and red, because why not?),
Celery
Carrots
Poblano pepper
Canned diced green chiles
Okra, a bunch.

Spiced as one normally does chili (though I usually add some curry powder to round it out), served with sour cream, salsa, and avocado. As said, it's hard to go wrong with crock pot chili so long as you keep to roughly chili-type ingredients. Admittedly, the okra isn't a proper chili ingredient, but it was tasty and helped thicken the chili, so there you have it.

This morning, I had a small bowl heated up, and fried a couple bantam eggs to put over top. Bantam eggs are adorably small.

Oh, also! The Hydrostatic EVE Entosis Lore Panel is up, featuring a bunch of awesome people, and also yours truly!

Hey, look! It's time for a bump!

As it's been a few days, I'll try to sum up briefly. After a very spirited lore-oriented tinfoiling session with the Tweetfleet Slack #lore crew, I'm writing two guest blog posts: Jove Dramatis Personae, and a far more engaging one I'll be titling 'Bronze Men and Watch Towers,' about the Talocan. Trust me-- it'll be good.

Cooking-wise, it's been a pretty relaxed few days. We've done take-out a couple times, but also visited a farmer's market and got some local produce. If you don't do the farmer's market thing, DO IT! Fresh, local produce is an amazing thing, and it'll get you the best of seasonal produce. Last night, the miss made a french lentil soup using spring onions and a bunch of other early spring veggies, and it was very well received.

Also, drink recipe time!

My preferred martini variant goes something like this:

Three parts Rangpur Tanqueray, two parts Lilet Blanc, one part St. Germaine. Shake with ice, garnish with lemon peel. The drink is strong, lightly sweet, and has just enough citrus that the sweetness isn't cloying. If you're at all into fancy cocktails, make this: it's universally well-received, and will certainly make a party festive. A few of us had these before going out dancing, and it was a good night indeed.

Corp-wise, not much news at the moment; working on getting Rorqual skills so that the newbros can get JCs without grinding standing. :)

Absolutely! Message incoming. Let's chat.

Belated bump!

Let's see what we've cooked since. The big ones were:

Challah french toast with a pear-rhubarb compote; I added a little bit of vanilla to both the french toast and the compote. In the latter case, the idea was that the alcohol would help macerate the fruit to help boil it away, and provide a bit of a bridge between the lightness of the fruit and the weight of the sugar. Quite successful! If you've not used challah for french toast, do.

Gumbo was also on the menu; mirepoix, peppers, okra, prawns, seafood and Andouille sausage. The miss isn't terribly fond of shellfish, but the seafood sausage was a fair compromise.

Aaand-- that's the quick summary for now. We've been doing some successful recruiting, and also preparing for patch day. Shenanigans to follow. :)

Tonight was one of those, "I'm starved! Cook all the things!" nights where I just cooked what I had on hand. What did this mean? Well, pan-fried chicken and pan-fried sausage, with steamed broccoli and roast halved onion. Over top the broccoli and onion went cheddar bechamel. As said, it sort of worked out in a meal, but I certainly also made lunch for tomorrow, and made up for running five miles today.

That said, corp-wise, recruitment has been going well. Also of note: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=421260

Check that out! Lots of RP-related, lore-focused shenanigans. We should be producing T2 Entosis Links as of mid-day tomorrow.

Currently, we've got five US TZ pilots, four EU TZ pilots, and an AU TZ pilot, with two more EU TZ coming in shortly. Activity levels are pretty good, so you'll reliably have others to BS with while exploring. :)

Post-recruitment recruitment thread bump!

Tonight, inspired by Xindi's chat in corp about poaching, I poached some opah (a sort of firm, white fish) in Riesling that had simmered a while with lemon, garlic, and crushed red pepper. Delicious. It was accompanied by a sauted mix of fennel, leek, orange bell pepper, capers, kalamata, with arugula wilted at the end. The remnants of the opah's poaching mix was simmered down a bit with a small bit of butter and used as a sauce.

A light meal, and delicious!