As its titanic anniversary time I'm going to I'm going to recreate some recipes served aboard the titanic this week.

Today i made a few 3rd class menu items-- currant buns and rice soup. I saw currant buns on this website and used tasting history with max miller's recipe for rice soup.

The rice soup was basically rice gruel but I liked it. Nothing fancy! Not much to this recipe so the cayenne and mace really go a long way, but still it's hard to have bad soup. I liked it enough i just had a big bowl by itself.

But as i understand it it would've been a first course option on the last day before the sinking.

I made a gf version of the currant buns--they were sweet and still yeasted. Again nothing fancy but a totally enjoyable.

If you've ever looked at any of the 1st class menu items you know the 3rd class menu is much much simpler but honestly there's a lot there and I'd be totally happy with the 3rd class food.

BUT as the week goes on I'm gonna try some fancier stuff.

Today I did some 2nd class menu items

I made "cocoanut sandwiches" which are delightful sandwich cookies i would eat any time.

Big success for a coconut fan like me. There was nothing in this recipe that threw me for a loop except nutmeg, but that was nice.

I also made roasted turkey (i did 2 breasts and some drumsticks bc getting a whole unfrozen turkey outside of thanksgiving is um $$) and cranberry sauce and puréed turnips.

The pureed turnips were, um, not my fave lol. The recipe for this and the cookies both is from downton abbey cooks, and I'm unsure of the historical veracity. But it had honey and cardamom which sounded interesting but didn't really compete against the turnip.

No one who's tried it has liked it yet lol. I've had reactions from neutral but wouldn't choose it to weird to spitting it out.

I had to do a bit of research to find a gilded age recipe for cranberry sauce to see if it would even be substantially different. And i found one from 1905 that is basically familiar with the exception of a substantial amount of vinegar.

I liked it a lot! I didn't make as much as listed and i think proportionally used less vinegar (apple cider vinegar) but it added a fun tang. But I'm a huge cranberry fan too.

And the roast turkey is just roast turkey. Altho in trying to nod to baking techniques of the day i used more fresh herbs instead of like a dry rub, which is probably what I'd do on my own. Herbs were thyme, sage, rosemary, and brushed with butter.

I roasted the turnips under the turkey, with celery and fennel (bc i can't have onions and fennel is my main substitute) and and carrots. The carrots were great and maybe the turnips would have been better plain than they were puréed.

Continuing this thing I'm doing now! I returned to tasting history with max miller and recreated his choice for the fanciest of crew meals the captain and purser would have eaten-- sirloin steak with chateau potatoes and bernaise sauce.

The château potatoes were definitely on the menus elsewhere for 1st class and maybe even 2nd. But they're potatoes carved down to a sort of olive shape and size, fried in clarified butter.

Its a pain in the ass and i didn't even try to do a better job. They're fucking delicious but just get teeny tiny baby potats for the same frying experience.

The big complex part, if you're really confident in your steak and potato cooking abilities i guess, is the bernaise sauce.

Which is just like a hollandaise sauce with an herb reduction in white wine and tarragon vinegar. And I'm a freak who makes hollandaise sauce sometimes so this didn't really scare me as much as i thought it would.

If you're not familiar with tarragon its a bit like anise but way less potent which makes it very preferable to me.

Just getting it all done at the same time is the hardest part but it was goddamn delicious. A+++ check out the tasting history for details about the crew which were really interesting. If i wanted to make something more representative of the crew experience tho, it'd probably just be more like the 3rd class menu but i wanted to make things I've never tried before.

And the finale of this little cooking adventure, 1st class recipes from the titanic's final night

I made poached salmon with mousseline sauce and creamed carrots and oysters a la russe, with champagne and sorbet.

I enlisted my sister's help in making and eating this, and in watching titanic 1997

Went to the fresh meat market near my sisters for the salmon and oysters which was an excellent choice. They were very good.

I undercooked the salmon a bit but I've never poached fish before so ☹️ i did recently fry salmon in oregon perfectly tho so I'm gonna blame poaching and not me. The salmon was still tasty tho bc salmon just is and I'd rather undercook salmon than over cook it.

Also salmon's best friend is mousseline sauce, everyone. Holy cow. It's like dilly extra creamy hollandaise. If you know how hollndaise sauce is made, do yourself a favor and make salmon with mousseline sauce. You don't even need to poach it.

As a side for this i picked creamed carrots which were surprisingly cinnamon heavy and surprisingly good.

And oysters a la rousse was an appetizer on the titanic but we had them last. The a la rousse is a relish with tomato, vodka, lemon juice, and horseradish and it is dope. I know oysters are divisive but this tomato relish would be good on any seafood i think.

And i just didn't have the energy in me to make the actual 1st class champagne punch, punch romaine, since you make a champagne sorbet which sounds great but. Like. Ive done so much already.

So we had some cheap ass korbel champagne with a store bought raspberry sorbet and it fucked.

Anyway, i rewatched titanic for like the 30th time and still cried. My heart will ho on etc. What a great night.

What's Next

The action for #EndOTW racism has officially ended. Originally we called for it to run from May 17th through the 31st. We are completely blown away and heartened by the response of fandom. Even though we’ve seen some racist backlash, the majority of the response we’ve seen has been positive and supportive. For us it has been deeply reassuring to see how important this issue is to fandom as a whole. Over the last two weeks:

"Now what?" you may ask. We have not yet received any official response from OTW. This is disappointing but not surprising. Calling for institutional change is a marathon, not a sprint, and this was just our opening act. 

We count as a success that we have been able to bring awareness to issues with the OTW in a respectful but insistent manner. It is also a win that we have been able to connect with one another and begin the first of many deeper fandom discussions on how to move forward. Additionally we are heartened that many who work within the OTW have come forward to detail their experiences within the institution. 

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Better Call Saul — “Black and Blue”

HEY HOLD THE FUCKIN PHONE THEY’RE MAKING A NEW MONSTER CEREAL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEY MADE YUMMY MUMMY IN 1988

A zombie was the only sensible choice considering modern children probably think about zombies more than all other halloween monsters combined. Glad they took the opportunity to also make a goth girl monster cereal. Finally I gotta say I don’t really like cereal much but caramel apple sounds better than all the other flavors and it’s even an actual halloweeny fall flavor. Makes me wonder why they never made a pumpkin pie one. I hope there’s an animated commercial to go with it but I don’t know if they really do those anymore.

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Lackadaisy Rhapsody ~

The Official LACKADAISY Pilot Soundtrack is now up on YouTube, accompanied by animations of the Lackadaisy Speakeasy house band!

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Happy pride, be gay, protect queer kids, especial trans kids. We all deserve to live our full lives with joy.

Have some phone backgrounds and banners/repeating pattern tiles, the prairie loves you

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Better Call Saul 3.10 “Lantern”

Mini Joy Luck Club Reunion to honor Ming-Na Wen Receiving her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Love this sentiment.

soooo.

fuck discord.

Turn these off NOW. If you wait they can use whatever you've said or shared with your friends on there until whenever you turn it off, even after you turn it off.

Turn them off and tell Discord to get their head out of their arse and go fuck themselves.

"black sails isn't funny" you have been ruined by marvel movies and the cultural legacy of joss whedon and quipped zingers I'm sorry to say. like the opening scene of the show has silver earnestly and blatantly lying about the cook offing himself when there's a plainly visible knife in his back. gates telling Joshua to grow up. "who's billy." fruit fruit tits tits. I'm sorry there are no quirky winks at the camera or whatever like a big sign that says INSERT JOKE but cmon

that's also like I think a strength of black sails' writing like all the humor comes in brief moments every so often and it's like. actual jokes that would conceivably be cracked by an actual human going through that shit. like for example silvers little "if it makes you feel any better I haven't thought about killing you in months" line feels earned because, like, yeah that's the kind of dark joke you'd actually make to your friend in that awkward moment. it's a brief moment of levity in a lull in action, and it tells us a lot of how closely flint and silver have gotten since the beginning of the war. it has other functions beyond just being a funny line but it IS funny and it's rarity makes it all the more impactful

Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

h/t twitter.com/womensart1

Chilkat weaving is the absolute pinnacle of fiber art, and Anna Brown Ehlers is *the* master weaver.

Japan has a system where skilled traditional craftspeople and performers are recognized as “Living National Treasures”. These are people who have mastered their art and ensure that traditional techniques are kept alive and passed on. The tangible objects they create are masterpieces of great value, but their intangible skills and knowledge are priceless. It is a great honor to be a Living National Treasure, and the Japanese government has a specific grant to subsidize these artists so that they can continue to create and enrich the culture of Japan.

Indigenous artists deserve this level of recognition and support. Anna Brown Ehlers and Jennie Thlunaut were both awarded heritage fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, but that is really insufficient recognition for the work they’ve done to preserve and revive and teach the art of Chilkat weaving. Not only the weaving technique, but also the art of formline design itself.

I have very strong emotions on this topic.

Photography/Art was done by Michael James Schneider. You can find him on several sites.

[Image description: an art piece built around the following words: “It wasn’t about water fountains then. It’s not about bathrooms now.” This phrase is spelled out using large novelty balloons, each shaped like a capital letter. A Black person poses in the foreground, sitting on a bicycle, and holding a dandelion flower with both hands. The colors of the photograph are vivid and aggressively cheerful: metallic hot pink balloons, arranged on a bright cyan blue wall. The Black person is wearing a sharp yellow long-sleeved shirt and yellow earrings, which match the color of the dandelion. Their jeans and bicycle are black, to match their beautiful, long, natural hair. The effect makes the message impossible to ignore. End ID. /]

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