#chefs

[mysharona1987]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

When it comes to pickles, the Dutch don't play.

[refinedtaste]

[copperbadge]

The Chicken Salad War

Available Friday, June 13th!

Many years ago, I was hired to serve as the personal chef to the royal family of Askazer-Shivadlakia, a small nation I did not know well.

I had advertised my services as an elite personal chef, and had many offers, but the Shivadh king swayed me because of what he told me when we met: that he had only a passing interest in gourmet food, and that he was hiring the best chef he could find not as a status symbol or from personal desire, but as a gift for his wife on the occasion of their fifteenth wedding anniversary. I was charmed by such a gesture, explained in the king's excellent French, and pleased that he was interested to hire my brother Hugo as sommelier, a position which had been open for some time.

King Michaelis and his wife Queen Miranda had a little boy of four, and the family had suffered a tragedy which meant they sometimes cared for a young girl the same age, their son's cousin. I knew I had chosen my new job well when, arriving in the kitchen for the first time, two solemn little children were waiting to greet me in prattling French.

Coming next Friday, the newest Shivadh romance!

Simon LeFevre, chef to the royal family, has spent thirty years looking after the Palace children, and now their children's children. This year, in addition to his domestic duties, he's sitting on the planning committee for the Reclamation Day Festival, overseeing the food tents and cooking competition. Unfortunately he's been partnered up for the project with the city's newest chef, Mr. Ylias Lazaar, with whom he's already clashed over...ricotta.

Ylias, glad to be home where nobody blinks much at a woman who prefers male honorifics, is opening her own restaurant at last, and enjoys putting Simon on the back foot. When she claims she could improve on the curried chicken salad he served for Prince Noah's graduation party, they decide they'll both enter the yearly cooking competition -- and may the best man win.

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The Chicken Salad War will be posted to Archive Of Our Own, one chapter per day, beginning on June 13th; the entire text will also be made available in google docs. Both version will be linked here, day by day, starting on the 13th.

The author invites commentary and criticism so that he may edit the book appropriately ahead of publishing it as hardcopy, ebook, and PDF later this summer.

Stay tuned!

[oh-bother-stickers]

[ganglygamer]

THIRD CHEF MY BELOVED-

Figured I'd start throwing in some more LN character designs of mine in the lead-up to Artfight, starting with an LN1 character before moving on LN2+3 characters. I wanted to stay faithful to the designs of the existing chefs and the third chef's unfinished model (seen below), so I made it that while Chef 1's face is smushed in and 2's is stretched wide, Chef 3's face is sort of stretched vertically with a taller head and spaced out features.

Also I think it would be funny if I made 3's name Tweedledum while 1 and 2's names are Tweedledoo and Tweedledee respectively.

(Timelapse below the cut)

[days-without-ai-ads-offical]

help me choose a method to remove the gamey taste from some boar steaks i got from a friend

mmmmm boar meat

soak in alcohol (beer or red wine)

Baking Soda Soak

Low and Slow Cooking

Voting ended onMay 13