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A German-American recipe for you all today, since the fic well is dry at the moment...
Heisser Kartoffelsalat -- Hot Potato Salad
8 medium potatoes, boiled in their jackets
8 slices bacon
1/2 cup onion, diced
1/4 cup celery, diced
3 tablespoons flour
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup vinegar
5 to 6 tablespoons sugar
salt and pepper to taste
spring of parsley or to taste
1. Peel and slice boiled potatoes while warm -- but do wait until they've stopped steaming.
2. Fry bacon in a skillet or deep pot over medium heat. You want it to get crispy, so it will take a while. Once the bacon is done, remove it to drain on a paper towel, but keep the hot grease.
3. Add the onion and celery to the bacon grease. Be careful adding them, as the grease can splatter if you just dump them in. Cook until the onion is clear.
4. Stir in flour, a little at a time so it dissolves into the oil. Then add water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. Cook until thickened, about 5 minutes.
5. Add potatoes, or (if made in a skillet) pour over potatoes. Stir until potatoes are coated.
6. Serve hot, or if you prefer, cold.
It's really good, and even better if it's allowed a day to sit.
I've a weird idea about Buffy/Harry Potter crossover -- remember how alternate dimensions are canon in Buffy? And the Buffy-verse is just about one step above Hell and the universe's sub-basement?
What if the Buffyverse is so bad that almost everyone has a bit of magic ability because of predator pressure from the demons? A bit of magical ability makes you a less likely treat for rampaging demons, so you survive and your non-magical neighbor gets eaten -- thus you have children with magical genes and he doesn't have any kids at all. Your genes pass on to future generations, and with that kind of predator pressure every generation, eventually every human has at least *some* magical ability (which is canon in Buffyverse, or the "Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books" scene wouldn't have worked).
But in a dimension further away from the demon realms (say, the Potterverse) there fewer people with magical ability simply because it's not such a valuable survival trait? Non-magical-neighbor guy manages to survive to pass his genes along, and just through genetic drift, magical genes become very rare indeed. In fact, they're only common in isolated populations (the Wizarding world, where magic is bred for, directly or indirectly), and in sports in the larger non-magical population.
So what happens when a really fabulous Buffyverse witch (like Willow) starts punching holes in reality and wanders into the Potterverse? Could she whup Voldemort from here to next year or would she terrify the Wizarding World into uniting in competent resistance, for a change.
Heisser Kartoffelsalat -- Hot Potato Salad
8 medium potatoes, boiled in their jackets
8 slices bacon
1/2 cup onion, diced
1/4 cup celery, diced
3 tablespoons flour
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup vinegar
5 to 6 tablespoons sugar
salt and pepper to taste
spring of parsley or to taste
1. Peel and slice boiled potatoes while warm -- but do wait until they've stopped steaming.
2. Fry bacon in a skillet or deep pot over medium heat. You want it to get crispy, so it will take a while. Once the bacon is done, remove it to drain on a paper towel, but keep the hot grease.
3. Add the onion and celery to the bacon grease. Be careful adding them, as the grease can splatter if you just dump them in. Cook until the onion is clear.
4. Stir in flour, a little at a time so it dissolves into the oil. Then add water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. Cook until thickened, about 5 minutes.
5. Add potatoes, or (if made in a skillet) pour over potatoes. Stir until potatoes are coated.
6. Serve hot, or if you prefer, cold.
It's really good, and even better if it's allowed a day to sit.
I've a weird idea about Buffy/Harry Potter crossover -- remember how alternate dimensions are canon in Buffy? And the Buffy-verse is just about one step above Hell and the universe's sub-basement?
What if the Buffyverse is so bad that almost everyone has a bit of magic ability because of predator pressure from the demons? A bit of magical ability makes you a less likely treat for rampaging demons, so you survive and your non-magical neighbor gets eaten -- thus you have children with magical genes and he doesn't have any kids at all. Your genes pass on to future generations, and with that kind of predator pressure every generation, eventually every human has at least *some* magical ability (which is canon in Buffyverse, or the "Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books" scene wouldn't have worked).
But in a dimension further away from the demon realms (say, the Potterverse) there fewer people with magical ability simply because it's not such a valuable survival trait? Non-magical-neighbor guy manages to survive to pass his genes along, and just through genetic drift, magical genes become very rare indeed. In fact, they're only common in isolated populations (the Wizarding world, where magic is bred for, directly or indirectly), and in sports in the larger non-magical population.
So what happens when a really fabulous Buffyverse witch (like Willow) starts punching holes in reality and wanders into the Potterverse? Could she whup Voldemort from here to next year or would she terrify the Wizarding World into uniting in competent resistance, for a change.
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I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the concept, though. I think it's this: the Buffyverse seems firmly rooted in magic of the Wiccan tradition, while the HPverse doesn't seem to be as much, if at all. (At least the magic that's been taught so far, and bearing in mind that we haven't seen a lot of Dark Arts skills yet.)
That's not to say that two different traditions can't coexist. But to me it seems like two totally separate universes in Meta terms, in other words, and I can't seem to reconcile the differences.
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Buffyverse magic is very syncretic -- spells come in just about every language, Latin, Romanian, English, you name it. But the actual world is quite Lovecraftian.
And no, I'm not saying that the Buffyverse and the Potterverse co-exist, except as very different legs of the Trousers of Time. The Buffyverse is the leg where demons actually exist, and thus *every* human being has a bit of magical ability because it's a necessary survival trait and thus magic is quite different from on the other leg, the Potterverse, where magic can be helpful but wasn't so heavily selected for -- and where magic is harder to learn and in some ways less powerful because it wasn't so heavily selected for.
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What kind of vinegar do you use? Redskin potatoes?
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And it is actually best the day after it's made.