[big]Marinated courgette (zucchini)[/big]

This will serve two people or one Darkhawk.

[death]Ingredients:[/death]

- 2 (large) courgettes (it's easier for this dish if they are as straight as possible)
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- salt
- pepper

[death]Instructions:[/death]

Preheat oven to about 200 degrees C.

Wash the courgettes, and cut them up (lengthwise) into slices of approximately half a cm thick.

Mix olive oil, lemon juice, minced garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl.
Put some of this mixture on both sides of a courgette slice, and put it into an oven dish (put some non-stick paper underneath it so it won't stick to the dish/bowl/whatever you're putting it in). Do this with every courgette slice. If you have too little of the marinade, make some more. If you have some marinade left at the end, just pour it over the slices.

Let the slices sit for 5-10 minutes, then put them into the oven until the top ones are slightly brown (or until you think they're done).

If you like, you can easily add other ingredients to the marinade, like chopped up fresh herbs (I had a great time with thyme).

[big]Christmas Cookies[/big]

I made these this year and everyone liked them (so if you like cookies in general you'll probably like these ).

[death]Ingredients:[/death]

- 125 g butter (unsalted)
- 100 g (dark) brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 heaped teaspoons ground ginger (or use however much you prefer)
- 5 cloves (ground/powdered as fine as you can manage) (or as many as you prefer)
- 1 egg
- pinch of salt
- flour (I don't know how much of it I use, but I just add it at the end until the mixture is the right consistency)

[death]and for the icing:[/death]

- juice of 1 lemon (or half a lemon, if you prefer)
- 250 g icing sugar
- the white of 1 egg

[death]Instructions:[/death]

Preheat oven to about 170°C.

Put the butter and the sugar in a bowl, and beat them together for a while (I use an electronic hand mixer, highest setting).

Add the egg, the honey, the baking powder, a pinch of salt, the ginger and the cloves to the butter and sugar mixture. Beat everything together for a while (again).

Add some flour (dont start with too much), stir that in with a spoon (or use your hands). Repeat this last step until the dough is the right consistency; meaning, until it isn't very sticky anymore, you need to be able to roll out the dough with a rolling pin (or with your hands) to cut shapes out of it without the dough getting completely stuck on the rolling pin (or your fingers).

Cut nice shapes out of the cookies (I like doing stars and moons; I cut the shapes out of some cardboard or whatever, and then put them onto the dough and cut around them with a sharp knife to get the shapes I like). Or just roll flat round cookies, or whatever you like.

Put cookies in oven for about 15-20 minutes.

When the cookies have cooled down entirely, it's time to prepare the icing. Put the white of 1 egg into a bowl. Add the icing sugar a little bit at a time, while beating/whisking with a small whisk. After that, whisk in the lemon juice. Heat the mixture for just a bit (I put it in the microwave for 30 secnds, highest setting). Let it cool a little bit, then beat it with an electronic stickmixer or handmixer, until it's nice and thick (think enough that it won't dribble right off of your cookies before it's dry when you decorate them). If it won't thicken properly, add more icing sugar.

Now put it on your cookies. I use this flask that you can squeeze that has a pretty small opening to 'draw' decorative lines onto the cookies. Icing bags or icing syringes don't work so well for me when I have to make cookie decorations, the stuff just comes out in big blobs and I have to use both hands to operate the things so I can't hold the cookie.... it just doesn't work.

Wait a while (a few hours for me) for the icing to dry (or just eat them while the icing isn't dry yet ).

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http://www.dumblaws.com/

So many guesses, and they're all wrong!

I'll post another picture part, and if no one gets it after that one, I'll start on hints. But you'll get it now.

What's this?

http://www.fat-pie.com/

Under cartoons, I've watched all of Saladfingers.

And another one by me...

Finally found something I thought was worth writing about again, so yeah, new post in RP forums by me too.

http://www.simplychecklists.com/

Yay!

The young woman is curled up in her bedroll, on the floor in the back of the Yrkanis bar. She tosses and turns. Her face is dotted with tiny beads of sweat, and her cheeks are flushed red. A frown plays around her eyes. The corners of her mouth curl downwards, stretch to the side in a slight grimace, then her lower lip twitches a bit. Her arms move restlessly. One of her hands, curled into a fist, hits the floor beside her bed and she startles awake.

As she half sits up, leaning on one elbow, she looks around blearily, wearing a surprised expression. A look of sleepy realisation settles on her face, and she lies back down. For a while she stares at the ceiling, until her eyes close again. This time there is no wild tossing and turning, just the occasional movement and twitching of limbs. Eyes and forehead look relaxed, cheeks pushing slightly upwards to give her eyes a pleased air. Her lips settle into ever so slight a smile and the red of the heat on her cheeks turns into a blush.

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A ragus spots her as she is standing on a hill overgrown with bulbous plants. It charges at her, barking and growling. She is wearing magic amplifiers. At the sounds, she quickly turns towards the beast. Showers of acid burst forth from her hands. The ragus keeps coming, regardless. Not long afterwards, it collapses, right at her feet. She looks down on it, face set in a contemplative expression.