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sessifetI have mentioned this before: I hate October. The light is wrong, it is cold and grey and it sucks the life out of the world. It gets worse if it's drizzly out, which it is now. If it has to be bad weather, can we please have some howling storms and the dryness and the autumn smells? Because at the moment, I don't even have my view to cheer me up, as it got eaten by the fog monster. Or cloud monster. I can't tell. Normally I trudge through October reminding myself that with the passing of every day November is one day closer.
I love November, with blisteringly cold days with sky that painfully pale blue colour and the sun surprisingly fierce. It has surprisingly warm days, with no sun and more clouds than you can shake a stick at scudding across the sky, as if they're in a hurry to get somewhere adventurous. It has the bare trees rattling their branches together and the unexpected swirls of leaves (if it or the previous month haven't been too insanely wet, that is).
Anyway.
This year I don't want to trudge through October waiting for November, gradually getting more and more run-down and morose and, quite honestly, a bitch to be around. I want to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile*. Therefore, I shall cook. And bake. And braise. And generally try to Feed People.
So...Any suggestions?
Any autumnal/wintery foodstuffs you love to cook/eat? It can be simple or complicated. It doesn't have to be a recipe; it can just be 'get X, Y and Z and combine them roughly like so' and I'll figure it out. I'll substitute with equivalents if I can't get the proper ingredients, so feel free to mention stuff that's a bit out of left field. In return, I will post the results on my own LJ and on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
afp_cooks and I will make an effort to be amusing about it too. :)
*I'll be working and searching for a new place to live, but this is apparently not worthwhile. Says the nasty voice, which should be shot until it's really, really sorry..
I love November, with blisteringly cold days with sky that painfully pale blue colour and the sun surprisingly fierce. It has surprisingly warm days, with no sun and more clouds than you can shake a stick at scudding across the sky, as if they're in a hurry to get somewhere adventurous. It has the bare trees rattling their branches together and the unexpected swirls of leaves (if it or the previous month haven't been too insanely wet, that is).
Anyway.
This year I don't want to trudge through October waiting for November, gradually getting more and more run-down and morose and, quite honestly, a bitch to be around. I want to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile*. Therefore, I shall cook. And bake. And braise. And generally try to Feed People.
So...Any suggestions?
Any autumnal/wintery foodstuffs you love to cook/eat? It can be simple or complicated. It doesn't have to be a recipe; it can just be 'get X, Y and Z and combine them roughly like so' and I'll figure it out. I'll substitute with equivalents if I can't get the proper ingredients, so feel free to mention stuff that's a bit out of left field. In return, I will post the results on my own LJ and on
afp_cooks and I will make an effort to be amusing about it too. :)*I'll be working and searching for a new place to live, but this is apparently not worthwhile. Says the nasty voice, which should be shot until it's really, really sorry..
