#street corn

[dietkiller]

Elote Dip

[vegan-nom-noms]

Mexican Street Corn Dip (Elote Street Corn Dip)

[lustingfood]

Smoked Brisket Street Corn Tacos (x)

[savorytoothgirl]

Street Corn Pasta Salad

[spongepost-squareblog]

Real

[carnelianmeluha]

Chicken Tortilla Soup, Street Corn, Matzo Ball Soup, and Chocolate Opera Cake from Monuments by @canyounotexistelias

If you told me a month ago that my 2nd anniversary post would not be a Dreamling recipe but a Jayvik one, I would have asked you what the heck was a Jayvik?! Dreamling still has my heart, but the heart can always expand to make space for more things it loves! So here I am, after falling late, but very hard into the Arcane fandom. Although I love all the characters, Viktor is my beloved, and by extension Jayvik. While I was still screaming at processing the Arcane season 2 ending, Monuments appeared on my For You page. Till then I had consumed a satisfactory amount of Arcane fanart, but this was perhaps the second or third Jayvik fanfic I had read. It's a very sweet canon divergence AU fix-it fic and it has food! So for my 2nd anniversary post, here's presenting multiple food items from Monuments -- Chicken Tortilla Soup, Street Corn, Matzo Ball Soup, and Chocolate Opera Cake.

As some of y'all know my wedding anniversary was two days ago, so I made these for a special dinner. I was out of chocolate, so I made the cake the next day. Since the second soup in the fic does not specifically say what kind of soup it is, I also reached out to the author, who said they really liked matzo ball soup. And oh... it's my favorite new soup! I was very worried I was going to mess it up; clear soups are not my strong areas and I was sure the matzo balls would disintegrate in the boiling water. But after studying a bunch of recipes, I tried my best and it was delicious!!

The next big challenge was this cake...

It has 6 layers of almond cake, soaked in coffee, filled with alternating layers of French coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache, and topped with a chocolate glaze. OMG it took me 5 hours to make it and I had the most terrible headache in the end! That was more due to the fact that I caught a bad cold while excitedly experiencing the most magical snowfall on my anniversary, which I considered a romantic gesture from my husband from the astral plane. But the cake was worth the pain and now I can make French buttercream! It takes time to get the texture and temperature right, but it might be my new favorite cake icing! Two new favorites from one fic!!

Without further delay, here are some lines from Monuments!

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“Jayce, how often does your mother cook?” Viktor asks one night as they stuff themselves on street corn and chicken tortilla soup.

“A lot. I remember my childhood from great smells coming from the kitchen. She’s where I learned this from.”

Viktor freezes. “You… you’ve been making these dishes?”

“Yeah, actually.” He wipes his mouth. “Been learning from my mom. Realized that, now that I’m an actual inventor and all, I should probably be functional by myself.”

“Hm.” Viktor accepts his half-excuse, half-lie, and continues to eat. Jayce would like to pretend that seeing Viktor happy isn’t warming his heart, but Viktor’s his friend. He won’t lie to himself like that.

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Viktor, one night, stares into the bowl of soup Jayce has made him.

“Do you…” Jayce swallows past the nerves in his stomach. “Do you like it?”

“Jayce Talis.” Viktor looks up, and his eyes are so full of light joy that Jayce wants to dance. “This is the best fucking soup I’ve ever eaten.”

Jayce laughs. He could sustain all of Hextech from the joy in that moment.

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“What are these?”

“Hm?” Jayce turns. He drops the cutting board as he sees Viktor holding his folder titled Viktor.

Well, shit.

“It’s…” Jayce’s mouth flops open and close like a fish. “I…”

Viktor raises a single eyebrow; the judgement in his face is clear. He opens the folder, slowly, carefully, giving Jayce every possible moment to try and stop him.

Jayce doesn’t.

Viktor blinks as he grabs one of the first papers. It’s a more recent one; a recipe for a chocolate opera cake that Jayce was thinking of making once Zaun was truly independent. It has scribbles on the side in Jayce’s handwriting of “too heavy? Viktor prefers lighter desserts.”

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I'll let you read the rest!

And there it is! Two years of regularly making fanfic recipes! All you amazing authors have been responsible for yanking me out of whatever mental hellhole I'm in and along the way I have made such lovely friends too. Your Hobs bring me so much joy, your Dreams give me hope, and now your Jayces and Viktors reinforce my belief that love can exist beyond dimensions, and that in some other universe I am cooking dinner for two!

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

mexican street corn soup

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