#egg snatchies

[fanfiction-gremlin]

Fanart for @transfemdeku’s egg stealing naga AfO au… he’s really feeling those snatchies…

No, he’s not going to eat them, he just has surprise adoption in mind instead.

[cosmicxmuses]

The only good Valentine's Day present for Snatcher is giving him the opportunity to graffiti his ex's house.

{✑} “ HA! Who said I would just do it on Valentine's day?" Looks like he already has a TON of spray paint, eggs, and toilet paper to vandalize Vanessa's place.

{୨୧} “SNATCHY STOP TALKING WITH THE ANON AND LETS GOOOOOO-" Looks like Bow kid was being impatient, with spray cans in her hands.

[inyourbestwriting]

These days when I travel my carry-on bag consists mainly of snacks I can mete out to grabby-snatchy little hands. It used to be heavy with books, but ain’t nobody got time for that anymore. Now it’s all bribes to keep small bodies still and quiet for just enough time to catch our breath. Maybe think about those books I left out of the bag. In there are cheesy rabbit-shaped crackers, apples from which will be taken one fairy bite and discarded (blessed am I, for I shall inherit these), sweaty Babybels, body temperature grapes, raisins, and small bags of “donut seeds”. 

For our recent flight to Oregon I made Bill Granger’s coconut bread. I love it so much. I first had it sitting in the sunshine in Sydney’s Surry Hills with my mum, on our first trip to Bill’s. I ordered the (life-changing-thanks-to-gallons-of-double-cream) scrambled eggs on toast AND the coconut bread, and I could feel the weight of my mother’s judgment. Vindication tasted almost as sweet as the bread.

I see his restaurants everywhere now, but I’m scared to go for the coconut bread again in case it doesn’t compete. Instead we make it. This time I made a loaf, carried-on enough slices for the family and kept it in the fridge where it maintained its magic so that we could have it again, toasted with butter, on the day of the flight home a week later.

Here’s Deb from Smitten Kitchen’s recipe for it:

2 large eggs 1 1/4 cups (295 ml) milk 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups (315 grams) all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon table salt (see Note) 2 teaspoons (10 grams) baking powder 1 to 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (Bill calls for 2 but I preferred 1, so that it didn’t dominate) 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar 5 ounces (140 grams) sweetened flaked coconut (about 1 1/2 cups) (I use unsweetened and it’s still delicious) 6 tablespoons (85 grams) unsalted butter, melted or melted and browned, if desired Vegetable oil or nonstick cooking spray for baking pan

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla.

In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Add sugar and coconut, and stir to mix. Make a well in the center, and pour in egg mixture, then stir wet and dry ingredients together until just combined. Add butter, and stir until just smooth — be careful not to overmix.

Butter and flour a 9×5-inch loaf pan, or coat it with a nonstick spray. Spread batter in pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, anywhere from 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan five minutes, before turning out onto a cooling rack.

Serve in thick slices, toasted, with butter.

[Photo from here.]

[pinquot]

So I thought there was a good chance the mantis egg case I bought for our garden (on sale for $2.50 at the butterfly factory!) would hatch and be done without us noticing any activity, but today the decorative tire whose rim we placed it under is covered in cheeky little mantis bastards.  Even though I accept most of them will be eaten before adulthood, I love them SO MUCH.  Plenty of bugs in the yard for them to munch and I splashed some canned “pineapple juice” around (which I’m sure is mostly sugar water) to attract more.  LOOK AT THE SNATCHY BOOBERS.