3 things: wine tasting, fic, and Girl Scout cookies

[edenfalling]

Thing done today:

I went to a wine tasting! This is an annual event hosted by some people from my church, to which they sell tickets at the service auction every fall. I bought a ticket for this year's event because A) getting out of the house and socializing is good for my mental and emotional health, and B) I like to sprinkle some planned Nice Events through tax season to remind myself that things other than work do still exist.

I also made an appetizer to bring to the tasting, which I think came out pretty well. It is this baked and breaded zucchini strip recipe. If I ever do that again, I am increasing the garlic by A LOT (as well as the salt and pepper, and maybe even the oregano), and also I am going to experiment with different methods of getting the dry ingredient mix onto the goopy zucchini strips, because by the time I was getting the end my dry mix was gunked up by drips from the previous strips, and therefore did not spread nearly as evenly as I wanted.

Also I'd up the oven temperature and increase the base baking time to 20 minutes. 15 minutes at 400F just did not cut it. (...Okay, to be fair that might be because I had two trays going at once. That does make a difference. But I'd still up the temperature to 425-ish.)

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Other thing done today:

I did one last editing pass on "Guardian" chapter 17 and posted the revised final version to AO3 (and to ff.net). \o/

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Other other thing done today:

A Girl Scout and her dad had set up a table at the intersection of Dryden Rd. and College Ave. this afternoon, which I noticed when I was taking a tour group to see some studio apartments. They asked if I wanted to buy cookies, and I said not now but I'd be back on my lunch break! Which I then made good on as soon as the tour was over. :)

I bought three boxes of Thin Mints and one box of Trefoils, because Thin Mints are the best and even bland-ish shortbread is still shortbread. Delicious cookie bounty is mine, mwahahahaha!!!

Comments

[branchandroot]

If you use a shallower dish of breading, and kind of heap-and-pat the dry onto the wet, adding dry mix as it runs out, that sometimes works. Alas, zucchini is too floppy to put in a bag and shake.

[edenfalling]

A shallower dish would definitely help! I think another problem was that I used my fingers for everything -- next time I will try transferring the zucchini strips from the wet bowl to the dry mix with a fork so my fingers don't spread so much glop.

[pole_dancer]

I love Girl Scout cookies. The problem is, I rarely have an opportunity to buy them.

[edenfalling]

I used to get them via my mom, who could generally hook me up with a coworker or two whose kids were selling cookies, but since she retired I'm dependent on finding some scouts who've set up a table somewhere I happen to be walking.

For whatever reason, Ithaca's Girl Scouts don't do mail order door-to-door sales. They set up tables in public areas with their stock already on hand and sell on the spot. Some of them even take Venmo now!

[harmony_lover]

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. I love Thin Mints, but Tagalongs (the peanut butter patties) are my favorite, and my spouse loves the ones that are chocolate and coconut. :)

[edenfalling]

Girl Scout cookies are wonderful and I wish they were available year-round. :)