Thankfulnesses.

In no particular order.

• Kitty snuggles.
  
• The loving support of teinedreugan which keeps me some semblance of sane and lets me actually try to pursue the things that matter to me.
  
• Getting relationships less broken and in some cases even fixed.
  
• Writing progress.
  
• An excellent dinner mostly prepared by keshwyn, also with jikharra and briar_pipe and teinedreugan.
  
• oneironaut making me laugh when I need it.
  
• Finding rubberskunk again (thanks to diagonti and the wonders of the intarweb).
  
• The existence of painkillers.
  
• My brother is doing okay these days and has a job he loves.
  
• The support of friends and community.
  
• Loving family.
  
• yezida, my classmates, and the guidance of the Work.
  
• Music.
  
• The support and love of the gods.
  
• Slowly encroaching sanity.
  
• My akhu Grandy Jay's fudge cake recipe.
  
• arawen.
  

Week of Cheese Sauce

I continue on with having everything I cook this week containing a cheese sauce. Or something.

Tonight I decided -- while in the middle of a massive blood sugar crash -- that I was going to Cook Something. I even had a very specific Something I was going to Cook, which is always an interesting state of mind to be in, especially when I have no clue what I'm actually doing. (This is setting aside the entertainment value of reeling around the kitchen while having no blood sugar.)

Pot 1: put on rice.
Pan 1: put in chicken strips in butter. Add a little white wine to keep things from burning every so often.
Pot 2: the sauce.

Sauce assembly procedure (as performed on no blood sugar):

Butter in pan, melt. Some random quantity of flour on butter, make roux of sorts. Add milk. Set milk on fire accidentally. Mix to a paste. Add some more milk. Add a bunch of dried flaked onion. Find about 2/3 of a package of cheddar cheese in the fridge. Cut off the surface of same, cut cheese into chunks, drop into paste mix. Wander around drunkenly for a bit. Add cayenne pepper, stir, discover that the lumps are going away. Add garlic powder, stir. Add Worcestireshire sauce. Stare at the pretty patterns the sauce makes on the surface of the, uh, sauce. Stir. Taste frequently. Add more cayenne. Decide the sauce is too thick and add some of the white wine.

This came out exactly the way I wanted it. And it tastes of cheese.