Lounge II (The Lounge Strikes Back)

[Snakenaps she/her]

1 minute ago, shatteredsmooth said:

He said it was the exact same recipe but instead of shaping it like a baguette, he shaped it in a disc and let it sit on the counter for an hour, then stretched it. Oven is at 500 F. The pizza stone is on the bottom rack. 

The cookbook  he got that recipe from had multiple baguette recipes and I think this is the only one it suggested using for pizza dough. But I'll double check, and ask which book it is, because he has a lot of bread related cookbooks. 

Hm, I wonder if my recipe would work or not... 

I used to be the worst cook before I decide to make my protagonist a chef. Now I'm not necessarily amazing, but at least I'm now good. Bread is still something I'm eager to get better at. Once my roommate moves out, I'm bringing my KitchenAide back from my parents. 

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

Also...is that bacon I see??? 

Alas, it is not bacon. I have bell peppers and onions on the pizza, because I do need vegetables.  

45 minutes ago, Robinski said:

That looks like a classy pizza right there. The base looks really crispy. 

It was crispy! Thank you!

[Snakenaps she/her]

Just now, shatteredsmooth said:

Alas, it is not bacon. I have bell peppers and onions on the pizza, because I do need vegetables.  

Boo...I see bacon everywhere. Probably because I haven't had it for so long. For the cost, there are better, healthier proteins out there. But nothing is as good as bacon. 

Onions on pizza is the bomb. I don't have a ton of experience putting peppers on pizza unless they are green peppers. Did you use orange?

[shatteredsmooth]

7 minutes ago, Snakenaps said:

Onions on pizza is the bomb. I don't have a ton of experience putting peppers on pizza unless they are green peppers. Did you use orange?

I had red and orange bell peppers on that one. I sautéed them before putting them on the pizza. I'm not a fan of green peppers or hot peppers. Only sweet ones that aren't green. I am very picky about my peppers. My favorite ones are these red ones I grow, Thunderbolts according to the seed package. They're red, long, skinny and super sweet, and I won't have any until August or Sept. because they grow so very slow. 

And I am completely procrastinating getting my chapter ready to send. I edited with a pen and paper. Typing the changes is proving tedious, and I keep adding things I didn't plan to add. My eyes got a break from the screen Friday, but I am making up for it now. 

 

Edited May 11, 2020 by shatteredsmooth

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

I had red and orange bell peppers on that one. I sautéed them before putting them on the pizza. I'm not a fan of green peppers or hot peppers. Only sweet ones that aren't green. I am very picky about my peppers. My favorite ones are these red ones I grow, Thunderbolts according to the seed package. They're red, long, skinny and super sweet, and I won't have any until August or Sept. because they grow so very slow. 

And I am completely procrastinating getting my chapter ready to send. I edited with a pen and paper. Typing the changes is proving tedious, and I keep adding things I didn't plan to add. My eyes got a break from the screen Friday, but I am making up for it now. 

 

I'll have to try red and orange next time. I massively prefer them over green. I congratulate you on your ability to grow plants! I have a brown thumb. I am good with java moss, though, because you just keep it submerged in a jar and flip it when it gets too scraggly. 

As a massive procrastinator, you have my sympathies.

[Emi she/her]

Hi, guys! Me and my dad just finished doing our garden!

but actually those plants look really wierd because of their smallness

[Robinski he/him]

8 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

I see bacon

That's from the Bruce Willis movie, right?

[Robinski he/him]

26 minutes ago, Emi said:

Me and my dad just finished doing our garden

That's great! Good job. I love gardening. I'm in our garden all the time at the moment because out weather is so good. I've really got hooked on growing vegetables the last few years, which is a lot of work, but sooo satisfying. Our cherry tree has gone over now, but this is it from a week ago. And you love dragons? We've got five in our garden (see cheeky wee face in bottom lefthand corner  ).

And a better one of the dragon, with the clematis, from last year.

Edited May 12, 2020 by Robinski

[Emi she/her]

40 minutes ago, Robinski said:

That's great! Good job. 

Thank you. Though my lookes better from the front. We have quite nice Liac

Edited May 12, 2020 by Emi

[Robinski he/him]

Cool. I see a lilac, in fact two, I think, on the lefthand side. Ours is out too in our front garden. Smaller than those though.

[Emi she/her]

There are 3 liacs. Everyone is different color

[Robinski he/him]

3 hours ago, Emi said:

There are 3 liacs. Everyone is different color

Excellent.

[shatteredsmooth]

5 hours ago, Emi said:

but actually those plants look really wierd because of their smallness

 

Your garden looks awesome! I always have trouble keeping things spaced out because even though I know they are going to grow, I hate seeing gaps of empty space. 

I love lilacs! I have a baby lilac bush but it hasn't flowered yet. 

 

[Emi she/her]

22 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Your garden looks awesome! I always have trouble keeping things spaced out because even though I know they are going to grow, I hate seeing gaps of empty space. 

I love lilacs! I have a baby lilac bush but it hasn't flowered yet. 

 

Thank you and I hope your liac will bloom soon, if not this year, than another

[shatteredsmooth]

7 hours ago, Robinski said:

I've really got hooked on growing vegetables the last few years, which is a lot of work, but sooo satisfying.

Me too! 

I have seedlings in my little greenhouse right now, and here are a couple pictures of last years garden. It gets very chaotic at the end of the summer, but most plants more or less survive. The last picture is the butternut squash that decided to climb my  rain barrels. It almost made it to the garage roof.

Edited May 12, 2020 by shatteredsmooth

[Robinski he/him]

8 hours ago, shatteredsmooth said:

I love lilacs! I have a baby lilac bush but it hasn't flowered yet.

Lilacs can take a long time to flower, I believe. We have one in the front that is 6' tall and only really bloomed 'properly' this year.

[Snakenaps she/her]

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sell-out-part-one

I read this short story yesterday and thought I would share it because it was so good. It's a four part story about a Polish immigrant who works at a pickle factory and is accidentally brined. He wakes up, only to find that Brooklyn has massively changed - a hundred years has gone by and he hasn't aged a day. The poor man meets his great-great-grandson and attempts to figure out this modern era. I found it hilarious, but also a rather interesting reflection on our society. If you don't subscribe to the New Yorker, you can still read all four parts before using up all of your free articles for the month! Hah ha!

Apparently this short story is getting turned into a Seth Rogen movie ("An American Pickle"), which was how I found out about it. 

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

He wakes up, only to find that Brooklyn has massively changed - a hundred years has gone by and he hasn't aged a day.

Interesting! I'll have to check it out at some point. 

[shatteredsmooth]

Today LGBTQ Reads hosted the cover reveal for my next book, Power Inversion! It's set in the same world as the Book of Mel, about four years later, written from Mel's cousin, Erin's POV. But Mel is in the book as one of the more prominent side characters. 

https://bit.ly/3fMlWL7

Edited May 14, 2020 by shatteredsmooth

[Emi she/her]

26 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Today LGBTQ Reads hosted the cover reveal for my next book, Power Inversion! It's set in the same world as the Book of Mel, about four years later, written from Mel's cousin, Erin's POV. But Mel is in the book as one of the more prominent side characters. 

https://bit.ly/3fMlWL7

WOW! I didn't know, that you're writing books!!!

[shatteredsmooth]

2 minutes ago, Emi said:

WOW! I didn't know, that you're writing books!!!

Thanks! 

I have a novel and novella already published along with a handful of short stories, and two novels (including one mentioned above) scheduled to get published within the next year. 

[Emi she/her]

And I love the cover

[Robinski he/him]

2 hours ago, Emi said:

WOW! I didn't know, that you're writing books!!!

That's what we're all doing on this thread, Emi  

This is a writing / critique group. @kais and @Mandamon are also published, and the rest of us are aiming in that direction.

@shatteredsmooth, I also love the cover.

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 hours ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Today LGBTQ Reads hosted the cover reveal for my next book, Power Inversion! It's set in the same world as the Book of Mel, about four years later, written from Mel's cousin, Erin's POV. But Mel is in the book as one of the more prominent side characters. 

https://bit.ly/3fMlWL7

Awesome!!! Congratulations! I am a massive fan of magenta tones, and that title pops gorgeously!

[shatteredsmooth]

37 minutes ago, Robinski said:

@shatteredsmooth, I also love the cover.

 

23 minutes ago, Snakenaps said:

Awesome!!! Congratulations! I am a massive fan of magenta tones, and that title pops gorgeously!

Happy to hear it!

 Thank you!!