Ha, winter, the most horrible of seasons. Why you ask?
Because there are no LARPs!
But as the snow melts, as the dog turds surface, we are faced with a new hope.
Summer is coming soon, and so is LARP season!
As the sun comes back, I will be slowly going out of my ways to find new and interesting stuff for the LARP.
I already started going through my stuff, and I found out that I have way to many costumes that I will never wear... but at least I can help people in need of costumes!
Hurray for summer! I will begin posting again!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
LARP Stew Recipe.
Third post of the day, because I need at least one LARP related post.
So here, have a recipe.
For those who LARP with me, this is the stew I always do, so you know what it tastes like.
Ingredients:
Meat (can ba pork, or beef, or venisson; cubed or ground, i guess you could even try fish if you want...)
Cabbage
Turnip
Onion
Potato
Mushrooms
Barley
Broth (I find chicken broth works great with pork and beef broth with beef.)
Herbs (not the smoking ones, the cooking ones, I use thyme and oregano, but it's also good with basil and majoram)
Fenron's secret ingredient (not telling what it is, you have to be a Fenron to know. but rest assured it is nothing gross.)
1- Soak the barley before you start anything, it takes an hour to soak.
2- Chop up the vegetables, I don't give any amounts because it is always purely arbitrary, when people ask me, I answer than I put some, or enough.
3- Put the veggies in a big pot and cover with broth. Bring to a boil.
4- Drain the barley and add it to the boiling vegetables.
5- Let the mix boil for at least 30 minutes, if you are using ground meat, make sure to cook it beforehand, cubes can go raw in the pot.
6- Add herbs and secret ingredient.
7- boil until the vegetables and barley are cooked to your liking. Be sure to keep an eye on the broth level, you might need to add some in the process.
There are two ways of serving it, in a soup fashion, where it is still very liquid, and in a goop fashion, where there is barely any liquid left.
The stew is easily reheated, but tends to be better in a soup fashion when it is. (Just add water and stir before reheating)
And that's it.
Bon Appetit!
So here, have a recipe.
For those who LARP with me, this is the stew I always do, so you know what it tastes like.
Ingredients:
Meat (can ba pork, or beef, or venisson; cubed or ground, i guess you could even try fish if you want...)
Cabbage
Turnip
Onion
Potato
Mushrooms
Barley
Broth (I find chicken broth works great with pork and beef broth with beef.)
Herbs (not the smoking ones, the cooking ones, I use thyme and oregano, but it's also good with basil and majoram)
Fenron's secret ingredient (not telling what it is, you have to be a Fenron to know. but rest assured it is nothing gross.)
1- Soak the barley before you start anything, it takes an hour to soak.
2- Chop up the vegetables, I don't give any amounts because it is always purely arbitrary, when people ask me, I answer than I put some, or enough.
3- Put the veggies in a big pot and cover with broth. Bring to a boil.
4- Drain the barley and add it to the boiling vegetables.
5- Let the mix boil for at least 30 minutes, if you are using ground meat, make sure to cook it beforehand, cubes can go raw in the pot.
6- Add herbs and secret ingredient.
7- boil until the vegetables and barley are cooked to your liking. Be sure to keep an eye on the broth level, you might need to add some in the process.
There are two ways of serving it, in a soup fashion, where it is still very liquid, and in a goop fashion, where there is barely any liquid left.
The stew is easily reheated, but tends to be better in a soup fashion when it is. (Just add water and stir before reheating)
And that's it.
Bon Appetit!
R.I.P. to two very important people.
The month of January was very difficult for me and my sweetheart. Two very important people died, and one of them died yesterday.
The first to die was J, my love's grand-father. He was very old, his health had been going downhill for quite some time and caused him to abandon music, his passion, a few weeks before passing away. I'm a bit hazy on the details, but it was pneumonia that got to him in the end if I am not mistaken.
He was my love's best friend.
The other one was John, our cat. Not Legion, our other cat. The one we had before I found Legion. John (not his real name, but the name my ove used fr him on the interwebs) had skin cancer. We had it removed but it didn't heal correctly and he had a pouch of pus and blood that was created under his wound. We had no choice but to get him put down. It was a very sad moment that involved a lot of crying. I guess my love will be crying for most of the weekend. I can't blame him, John has been with him for over 10 years, through good and bad.
R.I.P. both of you, may musician heaven be an endless concert and cat heaven be full of sunbeams and lap.
The first to die was J, my love's grand-father. He was very old, his health had been going downhill for quite some time and caused him to abandon music, his passion, a few weeks before passing away. I'm a bit hazy on the details, but it was pneumonia that got to him in the end if I am not mistaken.
He was my love's best friend.
The other one was John, our cat. Not Legion, our other cat. The one we had before I found Legion. John (not his real name, but the name my ove used fr him on the interwebs) had skin cancer. We had it removed but it didn't heal correctly and he had a pouch of pus and blood that was created under his wound. We had no choice but to get him put down. It was a very sad moment that involved a lot of crying. I guess my love will be crying for most of the weekend. I can't blame him, John has been with him for over 10 years, through good and bad.
R.I.P. both of you, may musician heaven be an endless concert and cat heaven be full of sunbeams and lap.
Forgive my silence.. please.
I spent so long without updating, I nearly forgot about my blog; and when I thought about it, I felt to guilty to write. Vicious circle that ends up with me not updating ever...
So here I am, more than a month since the last post, posting about my lack of posts.
But, there are a few things that make me motivated to write:
1- Winter is full on, the winter LARP is bound to be soon and summer is getting close! Can't wait to LARP!
2- Since I have been trying to convert people to join me, I am constantly talking about LARPing, and I now have bazillions of ideas!
3- I just got a comment from someone in Sweden! I have a reader that I don't know! This is so cool! I have readers that are not family nor people I poked into visiting my blog!!!!
So Sta, whoever you are, thanks for your comment, and I hope you enjoyed reading my blog enough to come back again.
Also, note to all my readers: I like it when you leave comments, LOVE it. And please, leave them on my blog, I know I can reply if you leave them on MSN Messenger or face-to-face, but on my blog, it makes me feel like I'm writing for people other than me!
Ok, narcissistic rant over.
Back to posting normally!!!
So here I am, more than a month since the last post, posting about my lack of posts.
But, there are a few things that make me motivated to write:
1- Winter is full on, the winter LARP is bound to be soon and summer is getting close! Can't wait to LARP!
2- Since I have been trying to convert people to join me, I am constantly talking about LARPing, and I now have bazillions of ideas!
3- I just got a comment from someone in Sweden! I have a reader that I don't know! This is so cool! I have readers that are not family nor people I poked into visiting my blog!!!!
So Sta, whoever you are, thanks for your comment, and I hope you enjoyed reading my blog enough to come back again.
Also, note to all my readers: I like it when you leave comments, LOVE it. And please, leave them on my blog, I know I can reply if you leave them on MSN Messenger or face-to-face, but on my blog, it makes me feel like I'm writing for people other than me!
Ok, narcissistic rant over.
Back to posting normally!!!
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Functionning of the Caravan (Continued)
Oh dear, I still spent over a week without updating anything... I swear I will try to update at least once a week from now on!
It's been really hectic around here for a while, I was sick, Christmas is coming, I lost my job... Just plain hell.
Anyways.
Last post was cut short by my inability to think. But now I have more things to say.
The Caravan, like I said, is a big family. Everyone has his or her own ability that can help, weither on the road or while parked at the outskirts of a town.
Obviously, the jugglers will need to do something different when the caravan is travelling but some people do not have a specific 'entertainment job'. The person in charge of the toddlers in example, will not stop taking care of them to entertain villagers with the others, the toddlers require constant care.
Different people have different jobs, but most everyone in the caravan will enjoy singing and dancing.
The exact population constantly changing. For generations, people have come and gone, but only under certain criteria.
- An infant born from one of the women from the caravan will be considered a member of the faily.
- A child under the age 10 found abandonned will be taken in as a member of the family if no one can trace his parents in two weeks' time. (Or if the parents are deemed unable to take good care of their children.)
- An adult that has no connection to the caravan will be allowed to travel with them but will be kept away from any secret, they are welcome to travel with the group for safety but they are not of the group.
- An adult that used to be from the caravan but left of his own accord can come back anytime and will be welcomed to stay.
- An adult or child that has been banished for any reason will never be allowed in the caravan again, not even to travel with them.
I have written that the caravan in a group of charlatans, this in neither completely right, nor copletely wrong.
The caravan will never cheat honest people out of their money nor sell something harmful to someone. They are honest people who will find ways to get something without stealing it directly - i.e. asking to see something and, when someone diverts the owners attention, pocketing it and never mentionning it again- but if asked for it back, they will not hesitate to give it back.
They are tricksters who take profit of people's lack of attention, they are not thieves.
The people from the caravan have a wide variety of features and skin colors due to their habit of taking in orphans from across the lands.They wear many different type of clothing, mixing a bit of every culture they meet. The women tend to prefer long colourful skirts or very revealing outfits, depending on the occasion. The only common occurence in the dress of the caravan is the insane amount of jewelry the all wear and the bell ankle-bracelets women wear, which supposedly repels monsters.
*To be continued, yet again*
It's been really hectic around here for a while, I was sick, Christmas is coming, I lost my job... Just plain hell.
Anyways.
Last post was cut short by my inability to think. But now I have more things to say.
The Caravan, like I said, is a big family. Everyone has his or her own ability that can help, weither on the road or while parked at the outskirts of a town.
Obviously, the jugglers will need to do something different when the caravan is travelling but some people do not have a specific 'entertainment job'. The person in charge of the toddlers in example, will not stop taking care of them to entertain villagers with the others, the toddlers require constant care.
Different people have different jobs, but most everyone in the caravan will enjoy singing and dancing.
The exact population constantly changing. For generations, people have come and gone, but only under certain criteria.
- An infant born from one of the women from the caravan will be considered a member of the faily.
- A child under the age 10 found abandonned will be taken in as a member of the family if no one can trace his parents in two weeks' time. (Or if the parents are deemed unable to take good care of their children.)
- An adult that has no connection to the caravan will be allowed to travel with them but will be kept away from any secret, they are welcome to travel with the group for safety but they are not of the group.
- An adult that used to be from the caravan but left of his own accord can come back anytime and will be welcomed to stay.
- An adult or child that has been banished for any reason will never be allowed in the caravan again, not even to travel with them.
I have written that the caravan in a group of charlatans, this in neither completely right, nor copletely wrong.
The caravan will never cheat honest people out of their money nor sell something harmful to someone. They are honest people who will find ways to get something without stealing it directly - i.e. asking to see something and, when someone diverts the owners attention, pocketing it and never mentionning it again- but if asked for it back, they will not hesitate to give it back.
They are tricksters who take profit of people's lack of attention, they are not thieves.
The people from the caravan have a wide variety of features and skin colors due to their habit of taking in orphans from across the lands.They wear many different type of clothing, mixing a bit of every culture they meet. The women tend to prefer long colourful skirts or very revealing outfits, depending on the occasion. The only common occurence in the dress of the caravan is the insane amount of jewelry the all wear and the bell ankle-bracelets women wear, which supposedly repels monsters.
*To be continued, yet again*
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