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Chromatic Remix 2011 Drabblefest Prompts: Day 7
For Chromatic Remix 2011:
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - "Wiyathul"
Photos from Com Tam Tau Hu Ky Suon Bi (Broken Rice with Bean Curd Wrapped Shrimp, Pork Chop, and Pork Skin) and Người đàn ông với... các món ăn "Bí Quyết"
For 1-2 servings:
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 1
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 2
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 3
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 4
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 5
- Drabblefest Prompts: Day 6
Guidelines
- To qualify for Remix Redux 2011, you will need at least five (5) stories of at least 500 words OR at least seven (7) stories of at least 100 words in any one qualifying fandom. However, you don't have to participate in
remix to play in our drabblefest.
- The goal is to write a story of at least 100 words in one of the qualifying Remix fandoms, but there are no maximum word limit and no restriction on the fandom written. If you end up writing a longer story or for a non-qualifying fandom, all the more joy.
- Prompts are entirely optional, to be used, subverted or ignored as you please.
- The story must have a chromatic character at the centre of its narrative.
- The story can be posted in its entirety in the comments of each day's prompts post as long as a fandom and a rating is included in the subject -- or merely linked with header information noted.
- Suggestions and requests for fandom or character specific prompts in the comments are welcome, but please be careful that the ratio of prompts to stories does not tilt heavily towards the former.
Sound
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - "Wiyathul"
Lyrics for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's Wiyathul
M..m
Mārrma djiḻawurr ŋāthinana, nambawu ḻarruŋana Guwalilŋawu
rirrakayunmina ḻiyanydja milkarri, nambawu ḻarruŋana Murrurrŋawu
roŋiyirri rirrakayyu. y..a barrawaḻayu y..a Mutjwutjŋa gaḻaṉiṉiyu
Ga namba Guwalilŋa, ga namba Warraḏika, ga namba Yumayŋa, m..m
Yä wulman ŋäthinana, yä dhiyaŋuna ḻanyiŋdhu dhungununayu
yä bāpa Kamba-Djuŋadjuŋa. miḻŋ'thurruna bayma Mayaŋ-ŋaraka
yä ŋäṉḏi maṉḏa. marrkapmirri maṉḏa. nhumanydja ŋayathaŋana Ruypu Milinditj
yä ŋäṉḏi maṉḏa. marrkapmirri maṉḏa. nhumanydja ŋāthiyaŋa milŋurr Burarrapu
yä namba guwalilŋa, yä gunambal warraḏika, yä namba Yumayaŋa
m..m
Scent
Photos from Com Tam Tau Hu Ky Suon Bi (Broken Rice with Bean Curd Wrapped Shrimp, Pork Chop, and Pork Skin) and Người đàn ông với... các món ăn "Bí Quyết"
Cơm Tấm
Tasks
- Moderate amount of lifting and carrying, including a medium sized sauté/frying pan & small saucepan.
- High amount of washing, chopping, flipping, stirring, frying and transferring food.
- Moderate to high amount of preparing and time management, including watching food and overseeing tasks.
- Moderate amount of operating a stove.
- Moderate to high amount of post-cooking cleaning.
Materials
- Medium (~10 in/26 cm) non-stick sauté/frying pan or smaller
- Heat-proof kitchen spatula/turner
- Rice cooker or small (~1 quart/liter) saucepan with cover & rice paddle or smaller
- 1-cup measuring cup
- Medium cutting board & knife
- A bowl to marinate meat, a bowl to whisk eggs, a bowl to make nước mắm, a bowl to make green onion garnish, large plates, forks and a spoon.
Ingredients
- Broken rice
- Pork chops
- Preferred type of marinate sauce for pork or garlic & olive oil mixture
- Water
- Fish sauce
- Sugar
- Garlic
- Limes
- Bottled chili garlic sauce
- Large eggs
- Tomatoes
- Green leaf/red leaf/romaine lettuces
- Cucumbers
- Green onions
- Olive Oil
Directions
For 1-2 servings:
- Cook broken rice and set it on 1-2 large plates. One method for cooking rice:
- Measure 1 cup/250 ml of broken rice and pour it into a medium (~1 quart/liter) saucepan.
- Wash & rinse rice with cold water 1-3 times in saucepan. Drain saucepan of water and fill it with ~2/3-1 cup/150-250 ml of clean cold water (more if you prefer sticky rice, less if you prefer less sticky rice).
- Turn stove to medium heat and cook rice for ~10-15 min with cover on (don't worry about if the rice's burning a little on the bottom; you can scrape them out and they make for some yummy nibbling food or when rice's cooked, scoop out all the rice and pour water into the saucepan immediately for easier cleaning).
- Uncover saucepan, fluff the rice with a rice paddle, turn off heat, scoop the rice onto 1-2 large plates and leave rice to cool.
- For nước mắm, in a bowl, mix 1/4 cup/60 ml water and 1 tbsp/15 ml sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Mince ~1 clove of garlic, add to the water mixture and mix. Add ~1 tsp/5 ml chili garlic sauce and mix. Grab a lime, cut lime into quarter pieces, squeeze one quarter into water mixture and mix to taste. Add ~1 tbsp/15 ml fish sauce a little bit at a time & mix to taste. Add more lime & fish sauce if desired. Set aside.
- Grab 1-2 pork chops and marinate in a bowl with ~1-3 tbsp/15-45 ml of preferred type of marinade sauce for pork (or mince ~1-2 cloves of garlic, sprinkle garlic onto pork chops, drizzle ~1-2 tsp/5-10 ml of olive oil and toss pork chops in garlic & olive oil mixture for a couple of turn) for a period of time (5 min-1 day).
- Grab ~1 tomato, ~1 cucumber, a few leaves of green leaf/red leaf/romaine lettuces and wash them. Slice tomato & cucumber and set a few slices onto the plates with the broken rice. Chop green leaf/red leaf/romaine lettuces and set them onto said plates.
- Grab ~1-2 stalks of green onions, cut the roots and wash green onions. Chop green onions into small pieces.
- On another burner, turn stove to low heat, add ~1-3 tbsp/15-45 ml olive oil to a medium (~10 in/26 cm) non-stick sauté pan/frying pan and heat for ~1 minute. Add green onions to pan and sauté for ~1-2 min. Pour the green onions and olive oil into a bowl and set aside.
- On the same burner, turn heat to medium, add ~1 tsp/5 ml olive oil and heat for ~1 minute. Add pork chops and cook for ~10 minutes on one side. Turn pork chops around and cook ~10 minutes on the other side. Then turn them around for the final time and cook ~5 minutes. Transfer pork chops to the plates with the broken rice & vegetables (or transfer pork chops to a cutting board, cut them into small slices and transfer them to the plates).
- On the same burner, add ~1 tsp/5 ml olive oil and heat for less than 30 sec. Grab 1-2 eggs, crack one egg and cook it in the pan for ~1-3 minutes on one side until it's golden brown. Flip the egg and let it cook for ~1-3 minutes on the other side until it's also golden brown. Transfer egg to one of the plates with broken rice, vegetables and pork chop. Repeat for second egg. Turn off heat.
- Serve plates and drizzle cơm tấm with green onion & olive oil mixture and nước mắm to eat.
Sensation
O green from head to foot
place your hands like a burning memory
in my loving hands
give your lips to the caresses
of my loving lips
- فروغ فرخزاد, The Wind Will Take Us
Speech
- Charientism (pronunciation)
- An artfully veiled insult
Trouble brewing? Stargate Atlantis, early seasons, Teyla Emmagan/Laura Cadman, rated G, no spoilers
"Differently." Laura Cadman's forehead furrowed quite attractively.
"Right." Teyla put her hands lightly on her hips until she could feel the comforting weight of the knife hilt under the fingers of her right hand and the three braided leather strings signifying her mother's house on the belt under her left hand. She stared down and tried to figure it all out.
Which was proving to be much more difficult than imagined, even with an Earther by her side. Maybe especially with this Earther by her side. Teyla glanced sideways at Lieutenant Laura Cadman, who was standing next to her with her hands shoved into the back pockets of her drab yet interestingly fitted trousers and wearing an expression of puzzlement on her face that, Teyla was pretty certain, only mirrored her own.
"I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to smoke, though."
Time to tear her eyes away, silently curse the Ancestors and their ilk, and also to take this pot off the stove that had so curiously little in common with either the camp-fires these days or the old Athosian hearth constructions in their lost cities of stone.
The pot was hot, even at the handle, which made no sense at all and instead made Teyla exhale sharply. There was suddenly a hand on her wrist and another one, wrapped in a cloth, cupping the pot and setting it gently down on an edge that wasn't emanating heat. "Man, Teyla. You'd think you'd never cooked a day in your life." Laura's voice was mocking, but her eyes were warm, and Teyla did not believe this was only about her alone: there was a question in this sentence, a request for affirmation.
"You do not seem to be familiar with this process either." Pointed, but probably appropriate.
"Cooking? Nah, I prefer fast food." A long look at her, then Laura added, "Honestly, I think Dr. Weir's idea of a cook-out that has the head representative of every nation here on Atlantis present a signature dish, is great -- for everyone not actually doing the cooking.”
Teyla, currently breathing carefully through her nose and waving the black cloud away, was forced to agree with Laura on this point.
Laura herself had to clear her throat two times before taking a step back from the stove and continuing, “And let me guess, you were all noble and a responsible leader of your people so you didn't foist this off on another Athosian who gives a crap and can do food-prep?"
Teyla parsed this for a half-heartbeat, then nodded. Playing to this young soldier's notions of her was surely easier than stating the truth. Then again, one part thereof was easy enough to disclose. “I paid great attention to the cultural communication aspect as discussed with Dr. Weir...but not so much to the culinary one.”
“Can't blame you. And just so we're clear, I don't blame you either for just snagging the first female you could find to help you out. Even though she turned out to be no Paul Bocuse either.” Laura smiled at her, a little crookedly. The edge of amusement in her eyes was not all sweetness and light, and that particular knowledge let Teyla breathe in, slowly, and state the other part too, after all.
“You were the twelfth, and I did pass by Major Chiheb, the head cook, as well as three of my people.” She lifted her chin, just a little, and looked at Laura, waiting for her to understand.
And when she did -- when Laura smiled, a lot crookedly now -- Teyla decided to postpone all worries about the perfect dish of tuttleroot soup.
Re: Trouble brewing? Stargate Atlantis, early seasons, Teyla Emmagan/Laura Cadman, rated G, no spoil
The fact that Teyla passed by a dozen people before she found Laura to have an oh-we-suck-at-this cooking date makes me very, very happy. As does Teyla watching Laura and trying to figure out how much to tell her.
(Cadman and Teyla really needed a scene together so I could have a Cadman/Teyla icon. Seriously.)
Re: Trouble brewing? Stargate Atlantis, early seasons, Teyla Emmagan/Laura Cadman, rated G, no spoil
Re: Trouble brewing? Stargate Atlantis, early seasons, Teyla Emmagan/Laura Cadman, rated G, no spoil