something queer going on

As always, there'll be a brief episode summary in the body of the post and discussion in the comments on my LiveJournal. Spoilers for the entire series are possible.

( Episode summary )

As always, there's an episode summary below the cut; discussion will be in comments on my LiveJournal. There may be spoilers for all seasons of the show.

( Brief episode summary )

I have been to the laundromat! This is a chore I loathe, because I have to go out, where there are people, and then I have to sit there near other people while my laundry does its thing. So I tend to avoid it. But today I bribed myself by going out to breakfast first (this also involves being near other people, but there's food and I didn't have to cook it or wash the dishes afterwards). Thus I managed to get to the laundromat and run another important errand before noon. Go me, I guess.

( bread, scones, pork roast, pizza under the cut )

I do sometimes do things other than work and cook. ( Here follow paragraphs about books, only some of them cookbooks )

I seem to have spent the morning lazily putting together the components of a salade niçoise, which I am now eating. Well, sort of a salade niçoise, as apparently the real thing does not include any cooked vegetables even though most English-language recipes call for potatoes and so on. Mine has potatoes, green beans, roasted red pepper strips, tuna, green olives, and tomatoes on romaine (aka cos) lettuce, with a dressing of olive oil, garlic, mustard, anchovies, and lemon juice. It's awfully nice, and I wish I hadn't let my nervousness of anchovies hold me back for so long from trying it. (At one point I was un-nervous enough with anchovies that I routinely made puttanesca sauce for pasta. Then I bought a tin of a different kind of anchovies that were fishy and disgusting, and I ended up throwing away an inedible batch of sauce. Somehow my brain decided that meant I'd been wrong and all anchovies were, in fact, horrible. But my brain was mistaken!)

The success of this experiment makes me excited about homemade Caesar dressing, which is next up on the salad agenda. And I still have half a tin of anchovies which should probably be used very soon.

I'm still puzzled by this unexpected interest in salad, but I figure I might as well go with it.

Other weekend food plans include making some bread (I'm going to try Laugenbrötchen, a German bread roll that is boiled like a bagel), cooking up a big batch of tomato-and-sausage pasta sauce to freeze, and baking something sweet, though I haven't quite decided what. I'm craving berries, but alas, despite recent warm weather that has reset my food cravings to "spring," it's still only February. Berries are available in the supermarket, of course, but they're expensive and probably not good. Anyway, I'm still trying to use pantry stuff I've accumulated, so maybe it's time to break out the pecans I bought on sale a while back. And on looking up the recipe for pecan-chocolate shortbread bars which I made a while back and adored, I find that I have all the ingredients on hand. That's a plan, then.


I would quite like to see Deadpool this weekend but I'll probably wait another week or two until it's less crowded. I'd also like to read something new but I'm not sure what. (I'm sure of the general specs--sff featuring men who love other men and get to have reasonably happy endings--but I don't know of anything fitting the bill that I haven't already read.) Also also, I'd like to read lots of really good Hannibal fanfic, but my forays into the fic have been limited. A few times in the relatively recent past, canons have been soured for me by terrible fic, and I love Hannibal too much to want that to happen.

I do have S3 of Endeavour which I still haven't seen. Or I could just rewatch Rejseholdet. I haven't rewatched any of it since I started watching Hannibal, and I'm curious about whether the show will change for me from this new perspective.

BTW my ankle is better-ish. It's still sore and stiff and occasionally quite fussy about the angle at which I hold my foot while taking a step, but not actively painful most of the time. This is a big improvement but I'm looking forward to the not hurting at all stage of recovery.

Brief episode summary under the cut. As always, discussion will take place in the comments of my LiveJournal. There will be major spoilers for later seasons.

( Episode Summary )

Episode summary under the cut, discussion in the comments on my LiveJournal. Note that there may be spoilers for all episodes.

( Episode summary )

As always, brief episode summary under the cut, comments on LJ only, and there may be spoilers for the entire show.

A note on sources: My episode re-watching is taking place via files of the aired episodes, rather than the DVD versions (which are often "producers' cuts" and somewhat longer). This is because (a) it's more convenient for me to take notes on my computer, (b) my antique computer does not have enough memory to play DVDs, and (c) I discovered, when one of my S3 DVDs turned out to be unplayable and I had to watch files instead, that S2 and S3 of Hannibal were not actually filmed in pitch blackness. No, it's just that my antique TV turns all darker shots into muddy muck; I did a direct comparison by viewing the end of S3 both ways, and on my TV I can hardly see what's happening. So I'm erring on the side of being able to see, but it's frustrating to know I'm losing bits of content that way. I've seen the DVD versions, but I can't always remember what's missing in the aired ones. *sigh*

( Episode summary under here )

As before, the post itself will contain a brief episode summary, while the discussion will be held in comments on LiveJournal.

A note on spoilers: Since the first rewatch post, I've marathoned the rest of Hannibal. I find I really want to be able to discuss how individual episodes fit into the show overall, so there will be spoilers.

( Episode summary under the cut )

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