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Hungry? Always.

Xindi, what are you considering Salisbury steak? Wikipedia tells me it's usually a steak ersatz using ground meat and various extenders...?

I've always wanted to try a real salisbury steak made from scratch, I may have to try doing that this week.

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Happy days! So, we're plotting our expedition to the new fortified WH systems when they hit TQ, and getting corp TS3 servers set up. Shenanigans to follow. More explorers wanted, as always. \o/

More plans, and more scheming.
Ramping up for corp ops soon, and working to get the pieces in place to make stuff out of any shineys we find.

Drop Mak or myself a line if you want in on these shenanigans.

Cheers, Maxemillian! Was a bit harried yesterday; catching up today. Expect a mail very shortly. :)

It is time to give some explicit details on yesterdays wormhole operation. The tight schedule did not allow for great efforts of haute cuisine. But nourishment became vital after several hours. Luckily, being caught cloakily between drifter and awakened patroler gave a break for a pan full of beef cevapcici. Potatoes could boil their time without need of cook's attention. Less multitasking was generally prefered during the operation ... but seldom achieved. Salt and kibbled pepper (green, red, black) were the only spices at hand, but I found some leftover arugula which went well with sweet oil and apple flavored vinegor. All in all, I was surprised that I did not have to rely on sythetic food replacements and intravenous diet during the op! Two pints of pilsner framed the food break. At the end of the operation I missed some good wine, though. I had none. But after spotting Mr. Tukoss in the overview I had to default to rum anyway. Op solved!

In preparation for this weekend's operations, I decided to both have an indulgent dinner beforehand, and everything in place for a quick-and-filling breakfast tomorrow!

The dinner, to say again, was quite a bit more indulgent than my normal fare. It involved tenderloin (seared, in this case), potato, asparagus under the broiler, and morels. The morels I lightly toasted in a pan to encourage them to sweat before adding butter, salt, and pepper. As the steaks were still going when the morels were prepped, I pulled the morels, and then dumped the newly-made morel butter over the steaks. Once the steaks were done, the pan was deglazed with a bit of Malbec, and the resulting sauce was poured over potatoes, steak, and-- well, by that stage, I'd already eaten the morels.

So tasty.

Tomorrow's mid-op breakfast will consist of back bacon, sausage, eggs, bread, tomato, and mushrooms. If I had baked beans and black pudding, it'd be a full fry-up! As it is, it'll still be a hearty and well-needed breakfast.

Oh, and speaking as a yank: black pudding is actually surprisingly tasty, and also ridiculously easy to make. It's essentially blood, fat, and oats, baked into a loaf, with slices then pan-fried until black on both sides. Easy peasy, and brilliantly rich and flavorful. Do hunt down a recipe and try it if you've the slightest inclination.

We have bread, and we also have a report care of Lucas Raholan's Hilen Tukoss brain bit!

Fun times had by all.

MMMM Pallela.
I'm just making some cream corn. Nothing special.

Not what I had today, but I have decided the best topping for steak is sauteed mushrooms and onions mixed with a bit of reduced soy sauce and a drop of Worcestershire and mix a pad of butter in at the end (like if you were making a burre blanc). if you pan fried the steak, that's what you deglaze the pan with.


So, if anyone is keeping score, IKAME has now had 3 mentions in the Scope, Makoto was featured specifically, as well as a mention of another person (Lucas Raholan) for what he found on an official IKAME op, and CCP has just gotten around to giving a few of us medals.