#eggy joe

[challahbeloved]

After 5 years of buying Empire kosher chicken from Trader Joe’s, I hit my breaking point of the chicken thighs almost always (and the chicken breast occasionally) smelling like hard boiled eggs. I bought chicken thighs from the kosher grocery store in the city, and wow, what a radical difference. Not even the slightest hint of eggy smell!!

And omg, it was so delicious too! They had a variety of cut options, and I was even able to get boneless but still with the skin, which I like.

The bad news is now I never want to get Empire again, and will have to drive into the city more often.

But at least I won’t have the regular disappointment of dinner plans being ruined by bad chicken needing to be returned!

[mekdotkha]

i really like games that feel like they have their very own ecosystem!! rainworld is a really good showing of mobs interacting with each other and doing their own thing to live their lives, and i think that that would be really cool to add into minecraft!

not just with animals either, i think that villagers, illagers, and witches should all feel like they have their own lives and that they do things when youre not around. right now, all they really do is wander around. wolves chase skeletons and sheep eat grass, but we could have so much more than that!!

imagine if they all had their own schedules and preferences that were made clear by their behavior! ill start this example off with the chicken. what better way to start off with than...

A REDESIGN!!

now, you may be looking at that and thinking "hey now, mek. not ALL chickens look like that" and you would be RIGHT! of course, there would be over variants of this chicken (different breeds, if you will) that you would find in other areas; each would have their own behavioral trends, but thats not what im referring to.

what i am getting at is them all having different little cosmetic differences that make them more easily distinguishable, for instance:

9 different comb variations! (even bald rep!)

9 different wattles!! (look at them, so majestic!!)

8 different tail feathers!!! (do not pluck!!!)

do you know what that means?? that means there would be a whole... uh... one second

648 different chickens!!!!!

you know how to any random joe schmoe, a pile of chickens is a pile of chickens, but to Farmer Dale, thats Chirp, Chooch, Chiki, Cha-Cha, and Char all ganging up on Cheery? now (if you care to) you can be the farmer who can tell all their chickens apart, even without a nametag!

"but mek," i hear you ask, "why do i care which chicken is which? theyre all the same!!" well, first off, they arent in my heart. you may jot that down if you please. secondly, NOT ANYMORE THEYRE NOT!!

MECHANICS

my current plan is to give each mob 3 core stats that it can vary from other mobs of its variant in. of course, other variants of the same mob would probably have different base stats of course, but lets keep it simpler for now. some examples of base stats could be as follows:

cows could vary in hearts, protectiveness, and milkiness. sheep could vary in hearts, wooliness, and coziness. pigs could vary in hearts, comfy pose, and inquisitiveness.

and chickens? well, heres what im workin on so far:

EGGINESS - by default we can change it so that chickens generally pop an egg out every day as the average. we can even make it so that its about once every 10 minutes if you go to sleep on time every night. (oooh, interesting)

TIDINESS - increases the amount the chicken will set aside a little self-care time. the average can be around twice a day. why is this important? well, because when a chicken preens itself, it heals whatever damage its taken and drops a feather!! (finally, a reliable way to get them without hurting them!)

BROODINESS - broodiness is a new status a chicken can be in that has a chance of happening every full moon, lets say around a 5% chance. if the chicken does become broody, then itll hang around its nest more, produce more eggs, and become territorial. coming by to take a broody chickens eggs may get you a peck or two!! it might be best to be a little more careful until the new moon comes around and it calms down.

now, there were some things in that list that seem to hint to other mechanics. ill go more into their behavior now:

chickens generally spend most of their time either pecking around in the grass for seeds, nesting, perching, preening or interacting with other chickens. which action they will default to depends on the time of day. these can be generally split into time they are foraging, nesting, perching, and doing social things.

FORAGING - a wandering state. chickens will walk around and peck the ground every so often, eating seeds or bugs or whatever. there is a small chance of chickens leaving biome specific seeds (foreshadowing) around whenever they peck/scratch at the ground.

NESTING - most often done in the morning and evening, if the chicken has a nest claimed the chicken will go to its nest and relax. it will alternate every so often between sleeping, preening, maintaining their nest, and wandering around a small area around their nest. if the chicken does NOT have a nest claimed, it will choose a nearby one. if there is no nest nearby, it will either start making one or skip to the perching state. a chicken deciding to make a new nest will search for a suitable spot, prioritizing elevation, cover, and specific adjacent blocks. (i do also plan on making it so you can make nests for them/move them with silk touch)

PERCHING - while perching, chickens will seek a "comfy" spot to sit. "comfy" spots are dependent on the weather. if it's sunny, a comfy spot is an high up spot that is exposed to sunlight. if its cloudy, it is just a high up spot. if its rainy, the chick en prioritizes cover. if its snowy, it will prioritize cover near other chickens, foliage, or a light source for warmth.

SOCIALIZING - chickens will seek out other chickens, and sometimes other mobs or even players, and exhibit one of a few different behaviors; these include clucking at them, preening them, and following them around.

what do you think? this is all a work in progress, and i have more ideas for interactions chickens could possibly have with other mobs, but this is what ive got so far. i dont want to make anything TOO complicated, but i think this feels pretty nice and makes the chickens feel... well, like theyre actual chickens!!

[hungryk9]

(Thankfully) successful vegan chocoflan for friends. The collective+Sparknote recipe in my notebook was of 3 different recipe sources, but the meat of it was from Dora's Table. https://dorastable.com/vegan-chocoflan/comment-page-1/#comment-13538 Notes

Made in a 10-cup bundt pan (10-12 was rec'd).

For some reason, my ratio of flan:chocolate cake came out 4:1. I followed the recipe, so I'm not sure what happened. I'd be more mindful if I do this recipe again in the future since I'd want the 1:1 ratio. I'd consider halving the flan/doubling the chocolate cake, and pour any excess into a small mold — but ultimately just really observe the proportions and keep a watchful eye on the amount that's poured into the cake pan.

I foolishly forgot to grease my bundt pan. Thankfully after some superficial knife cuts around the cake edge-pan, then letting the pan sit in a waterbath for a random 5 minutes to help with release, and then flipping it onto the plate+shaking the pan+plate a little vigorously till I felt a THWUMP — the release THANKFULLY came out as a whole!!! The modern Nordic Ware bundt pans are naturally non-stick but in the future I would still grease the pan, haha. To avoid a mini heart attack.

I went with a traditional heating of granulated sugar+bit of water to pour caramel into the bundt pan first (before the flan and cake batter). I'm glad I did since it gave the flan top the traditional gorgeous caramel coloring.

I eyed out about 1.3 teaspoons of tumeric to color the flan, giving it a pseudo-eggy appearance. I added it into the blender step. And nope, it's not detectable tastewise in the end. Alternatively, one could use yellow food coloring at one's discretion.

The recipe calls for 15oz of coconut cream but the cans I encountered were 13.5oz. (Ultimately I went with Trader Joe's high-fat content at ~114g vs two other brands that clock in at 81/84g. Higher fat lends to richer taste.) I already had a pint of soy-heavy-cream, which I used as a supplement. The coconut cream is still liquid at room-temp, but I have a very-very-very vague memory that it could thicken up in the fridge. See my note on agar agar powder next.

I added 1.2 teaspoons of agar agar powder to the step of heating coconut milk. I was really paranoid about the flan holding up for the flip release+subway commute to my friend's. I tried asking the recipe author if she thought agar agar would still work after baking & for chilling, plus I also tried Google'ing if agar agar powder would be ineffective due to baking at 350F, but ultimately I think it helped for the flan to hold together, for me. Phew.

After baking, the cake sat at room-temp for 1 hour before I put it into the fridge for 8 hours before flipping it. I just left it for that amount of time due to sleep, so I can't say for certain if it'd be fine the same way after 4 hours. It shooouuuld be fine.

You could subtly taste the coconut cream in the "flan". Not a bad thing, just a note. The flan could use more vanilla extract? I used 2.8t.

Remove the hardened caramel at the bottom of the cake pan by soaking in hot water. Use the wooden end of a kitchen utensil (like the tiny Le Creuset spatula) to use force to slide the still-hardened-but-loosened caramel.

[avrelia]

Joe Cornish Talks ‘Lockwood & Co.’

excerpts from an interview with Joe Cornish about ‘Lockwood & Co.’

You became interested in the novel series right at its beginning. There was only one book out at the time. How has your perspective on it changed now that we’re years later and there are more books and you have a wider grasp on the larger story?

Joe Cornish: Well, what’s interesting is that Jonathan admits that he sort of made it up as he went along. The first idea that came to him was the idea of these two young people with this peculiar weaponry approaching this house to cleanse it of a ghost. And the rest of it kind of came to him as he imagined it. So what happens with books three, four, and five is by that point, he’s really thought about the world and where the story is going to go. He’s thought about all the layers of conspiracy, he’s thought about how “The Problem” began. So in the next books – I mean, these elements are already there during Book Two – all these little breadcrumbs start, I don’t know, becoming loaves of bread. That’s a bad metaphor. (Laughs)

All of these elements start developing and expanding. Characters who you think are innocent become much more significant than you think. Characters you think are good turn out not to be so good. Allegiances are divided and the story gets more and more spectacular. It just gets bigger and bigger and better. It was incredibly exciting and rewarding to read that first book all those years ago then go away, do other things, then hear that they were available again and read the next four. It was like “Holy shit!” This is better than we could possibly have imagined, in the way it has developed since. Our first season on Netflix is the first two books. There are three more books left to adapt. We think we could get two more seasons out of it if the gods smile upon us.

Is it just the quality of the source material that gives you the passion and the confidence to make the huge commitment to a full-length series?

Joe Cornish: You know what it is? It’s having read them and, I’m sure like many people, I kind of make the TV show as I read them. You play the action out in your imagination. There are set pieces and moments from those books that I’ve visualized in my mind’s eye, that are unforgettable. And probably like any filmmaker, when you see something in your imagination, you get this burning hunger to make it real. To one day step onto a set with actors and shoot it. The characters are so compulsive in the first two books and Cameron Chapman, Ruby Stokes, and Ali Hadji-Heshmati, the chemistry between them is so brilliant. I want to see their performances when they get to play all this other crazy stuff that happens between them.

I love the way that, during the first test when Lucy meets the boys, she touches an object and there’s this pulse-like sound effect and the camera moves up to her face the same way each time. How did you go about finding the right portrayal for those more subtle supernatural elements in the new Netflix series?

Joe Cornish: My brain is a big melting pot of every movie I’ve ever seen and I see a lot of movies. Sometimes I shoot stuff and only realize later that I’ve kind of borrowed it from something I’ve seen years ago. I guess it comes a little bit from a movie called The Fury, a Brian De Palma movie, where they use big close-ups for psychic moments. The thing where they’re ghost locked and their eyes go a little eggy white comes from The Beyond, a Lucio Fulci movie. My brain is like a massive Rolodex of every film I’ve ever seen. Sometimes I think I’m coming up with an original idea and sometimes I’m subconsciously just recalling something. But most of the time, I just think, “What is the most straightforward, legible way to do this? What’s going to communicate the story best to the audience?” 

What’s interesting about [Lucy] is her emotional intelligence and the way her psychic powers are linked to her emotions. So it made sense to go right into her incredibly expressive face. Ruby has the ability to give such a detailed performance, then we wiped out all the sounds so that we were hearing what she heard. It was fun to establish that language as well, what we call the psychic slide that went into her face, and then all the directors on the other episodes could use that same language, you know?

In conversations with Jonathan Stroud, were there any aspects of the story or the characters that he wanted emphasis on or that he wasn’t going to compromise on?

Joe Cornish: No, he really understood from the start that the screen adaptation was always going to be a different beast. He was extremely cooperative and extremely generous. He was thrilled that the things he had imagined were being built and was excited to see the costumes, the props, the weaponry. He was an incredibly valuable and supportive companion throughout the whole process. It was very rewarding when he started to see the episodes assembled because he really felt that he recognized his work. I think the things that are critical to the books are the chemistry between the three leads, the skull, and Flo Bones. But as much as we spoke to Jonathan, we also looked at a lot of the fandom that was out there and that told us what the most important elements were to them.

Were there any parts that you wanted to expand on and focus a bit more on in Netflix’s Lockwood & Co. as opposed to cutting?

Joe Cornish: So the first book doesn’t go into Lucy’s childhood in that much detail. It’s quite elliptical in the way it describes it and we wanted to flesh that out. We made a few changes. She has a whole lot of sisters in the book and we felt that it would’ve been a little bit odd to shoot so many characters on screen. We wanted to make it neater and more digestible, so we gave her this relationship with one of her fellow agents in her local agency, this girl called Norrie. We also invented some little missions they go on because that forms the center of the first episode.

You’ve got to be ruthless, you know, some set pieces in the books are really exciting to read but they don’t advance the story. So we see that and go, “Well, let’s not spend our valuable budget on that. Let’s just stick to the bits that really move the characters and story forward.” So we’ve cut some stuff, we expanded some stuff, and we made some little changes. Some things make sense on the page but not when you actually staged them. Like Annabel Ward, the dead woman in the wall from the first episode, in the books she has a locket. We changed that to a ring because a ring is easier to carry around and smuggle about. When you come down to the practicalities of staging some stuff in the books, it doesn’t work as well as it might. 

[9w1ft]

Whatever I've read so far on tumblr regarding the lavender haze mv, it appears to me that this video is the most Easter eggy video not in relation to her music but in relation to her personal life, which at this point feels like she's begging her fans to crack these codes because she wants to be seen for who she is and not for who the world is painting her to be! She is laying all the pieces of the puzzle down and waiting for us to join them, and to be honest it seems like the lavender haze mv is a BIG part of that puzzle.

thank you for sharing your perspective! it made me feel warm and fuzzy and nostalgic inside ☺️

sometimes these days i feel i am less able to sense if something taylor does feels that way. rep felt like that to me, for example, but it didn’t pan out that way. that said, i do think a good amount of new people will realize things thanks to midnights. it feels that way, and the album rollout did have a sense of momentum there at the start!

i am still left wondering if it’s not another controlled flow situation where taylor still has her hand on the gayness faucet. to me, it doesn’t quite feel as if she’s walked away from an overflowing bathtub. she started the music video with the pic of the mastermind vinyl after all, a sort of life raft for all the joe (pisces) fans out there 😆

[mariacallous]

Cacio e pepe translates to cheese and pepper, and the classic Roman pasta dish includes little more than those eponymous ingredients. In that recipe, spaghetti and salted pasta water combine with a salty sheep cheese called Pecorino Romano to create a silky, luxurious sauce that far surpasses the sum of its parts. 

For the past few years, cacio e pepe has been on a tear among chefs and food fanatics. In a 2021 Los Angeles Times article, Jenn Harris shows that the origins of the relatively modern pasta dish are somewhat cloudy: Black pepper would have been too expensive for most Romans until the middle of the 20th century. It’s likely the dish can trace its popularity to the osterias of the 1950s and 60s, where it was probably sold to encourage patrons to drink more wine. Now, you can find cacio e pepe in everything from bagels to lasagna. Never one to miss a trend, Trader Joe’s has released cacio e pepe-flavored products, including a jarred sauce and cacio e pepe puffs. 

We eat a lot of matzah brei at my house, so it was only a matter of time before I thought to mash up my morning matzah brei with this recently-trending flavor combination. Cacio e pepe’s sharp cheese and smack of black pepper are a nice balance to eggy-creamy matzah brei, and it can be on the table in about 10 minutes, making it a simple, satisfying weekday breakfast.

[sakuraswordly]

Later part 1

Terry: This is where the history of all living things is stored. I remember looking into the files to see if I could find Joe Gardner, to which I continued planning to find him and returned him to the Great Before.

Peter: Wait.....there was a human lost in here.

Punch: Yeah. He was a mentor to 22. When he fails to be a good mentor he is about to be sent to the Great Beyond. However, 22 grudgingly helps him “get back”, telling Joe that he “talks too much” when he questions her about why she was helping him.

Peter: Terry….you're a silly one, Jerries trick you into thinking that they don't know about Joe Gardner.

Punch: This place is based on human technology, just like in Sonic's world.

Terry: I already told you that this place was King Gilgamesh's idea.

Peter: Huh....so they got the technology idea.

Punch: The same reason why Mr Gilgamesh sent Eggie to....umm..you know....

Peter: Huh.....I know what you mean "Punch".

Punch: I wonder how's Eggman doing now...I kinda miss bullying him..

Peter and Terry: Umm.......

Later part 2

Terry: This is the space between the physical and spiritual. Thanks to 22 I guess....

Peter: If we fight those lost souls.....

Terry: Sorry but soul can't feel hurt or pain.....whaaoooo what are you doing with me????

Punch: You also too so give us a hand okay?

Peter: Nice shape rope!

Punch: I catch a soul!

Peter: Don't worry Terry, we got you!

Terry: Hey! Don't use me as a thing here!!

Peter: At least, It was me who got him out.

Terry: What?!

Peter: Eep!!

Punch: Ha ha! What weird movements!

Later part 3

Terry: Okay the next....

Punch: Mother Teresa! Long time no see! How are you doing? And do you remember me?

Teresa Soul: Oh, I remember you as a naughty child, and I remember you as another naughty child.

Peter: Long time no see...heh...heh...

Punch: You will be safe here.

Teresa Soul: I know.

Punch: Terry? Where are you going?

Peter: Terry? Wait!

Terry: You guys are really something huh....my existence here is just doing this job.

Punch: That's why we came here, Terry.

Terry: Huh?

Punch: I will show you that you're not alone.

Peter: You're just an old grumpy female you know that. We came here to play with you.

Terry: I had uh....Jerry.

Punch: I know but still.....

Peter: Why does Peter Pan always fly? Because he can Neverland!

Terry: *giggle*

Peter: But well…It’s always that one of Jerries who takes their job too seriously. That's why your name's Terry…

Punch: Because you're Tedder

Terry: Oooohhhh I'm going to get you for this!!

[daincrediblegg]

Eggie you're not allowed to talk about Joe around me not even mention him you know which memories the mere association of you to him brings to my mind what thoughts and prayers kidding keep going he's our thicc daddy bear and also daily psa I still will never forget about what you said about him once living in my head rent free forever and ever👀 those were the days!!!! bless them and you ily 🥚

ah yes. good times. so many thicc cock talks. so many memories. how could I ever forget either (you're welcome have fun reliving all of that lmao. happy to remind).

[tacosbyshaya]

RETURN OF THE FAMOUS SB TACOS 10/10 🤌😘

Jacob and I cheffed up a storm for tal and Ryan today. Although the tacos were missing Trader Joe’s tomatoless corn salsa, two main improvements were made:

1. Tortillas bought from Santa Cruz market. Label-less flour tortillas, perfect size, durability, and doughiness. Huge difference

2. Jacob made this delicious mushroom, shallot, and mini bell pepper sauté (with milk ..?) and it really elevated the whole thing

Most importantly, they were gobbled up in the delicious late morning sunshine of IV in Jacob and Ryan’s yard. Also, making the eggy tortillas really brought on a nostalgic wave for me. Great company and even better tacos. Absolute 10/10.

[scumbag-the-hedgehog]

That little shake of the head. He's cracking. Oh, this is good. That's right, a little more pressure....

"Sure you will. Just like you've protected everyone else ol Eggy's targeted, right? Right?"

He lets out a cackle. Man, this is a blast, screwing with him like this. And the best part is he doesn't even need to make anything up.

"I know better than anyone what you can do. What you're capable of. You could've finished off the doc at any moment. How many cities has the guy laid to waste? How many average Joes ya think got crushed under the rubble? How many would still be walking around if the big guy had just been offed when you coulda offed him?"

Scourge is grinning from ear to ear as he leans in towards his doppelganger.

"Under those gloves... you've got a whole lot of blood on your hands, don't you Sonic?

Died? He didn't want to think of that, Eggman wasn't that bad right or maybe Sonic was weak to let him live..He's trying not to let Scourge comments effect him or let it show.

"I'm not ending anyone. That isn't right.. i can't take a life even eggman's." He felt suddenly sick, a part of him wouldn't care - that it was best if it meant protecting those he cared about. Shaking his head quickly to clear his thoughts. "I will protect them.."

[spaceiplier]

how’s google feeling now it’s April 2nd lmao

Better now that he’s back to work!

-Crow

[boba-sea]

human teeth have 36 calories

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[impy96]

HC Server-wide event featuring many laughs and fun moments? Hell yes I’m here for it! The Hermitcraft Easter Egg Hunt is genuinely an incredible idea and so far super well executed by Jevin, so here’s a quick recap of what we know!

Participants - 19 in total! In alphabetical order;

Bdubs, Beef, Cleo, Cub, Doc, False, Grian, Hypno, Impulse, Iskall, Jevin, Joe, Pearl, Scar, Stress, Wels, xB, Xisuma, Zedaph

17th April was the deadline for eggy hiding, and now the participating hermits all have until Tuesday/Wednesday to find as many hermit eggs as possible around their bases. 

Scoring system works as follows; Number of eggs hidden (18 max) minus the number of eggs found by other hermits. Jevin has also planned a tiebreaker if multiple hermits end up with the same score!

Several of the hermits have shown some of their hiding shennanigans in recent videos, so I’ll link all those with some of my favourite moments under the cut for spoiler reasons! And I’ll make another post after all the hunting videos have been posted with a recap roundup!

Also, Hermits who have worn their egg as a hat count; Cub, Grian, Iskall, Scar, Impulse, Xisuma

Bdubs - Showed a little bit of hiding in his video! Had a brief interaction with Cub about it, and fell for one of Iskall’s “good” hiding spots that he made to trick hermits lol.

Beef - Didn’t show any hiding, just signing up and collecting his easter basket. He also made an interior for his starter base at spawn to make it more fair for the other hermits trying to hide eggs and actually didn’t create any good hiding spots.

Cleo - No hidey, just sign up. 

Cub - Showed quite a few of his hiding places. Also showed his side of the interaction with Bdubs and found Xisuma stuck in his cactus farm trying to hide an egg. 

Doc - Both sign up and collection for hiding shown in his video. He hid a few, called his egg Lil Doccy, said he felt fatherly towards it, made some extras for himself, and then fed one to Garry the Goat. 

False - She was the first to collect her basket and hid a few on camera, also held her eggs in her hands (Calling them a girl group, maracas, bees, and maggots...). Definitely wanted to keep one for herself.

Grian - Signed up and collected his easter basket (it was named Grain). Hid a couple on camera and his little egg is now a manbun. Followed in Keralis’ footsteps of claiming that this was the best day of his life, better than when he got married lmaooo.

Hypno - Only has his sign up in the video. UPDATE! New video hidey hide. Jevin named Hypno’s instruction book as “Smelly boy”...rude. He also shows a few examples of where he has hidden his eggs. 

Impulse - Sign up only. UPDATE! New video shows that he is the third last to hide his eggs, but hide he does! Only shows a few examples on camera. Also wears his little egg as a manbun. 

Iskall - Please watch the chaos of his and Stress’ interactions around signing up for the egg hunt. Oh my god I was in stitches. Also collected his basket and showed some illegal sneaky hiding. (Jevin clarified the rules and made him change one, please don’t go and give out in his comments). 

Jevin - Didn’t show any hiding of eggs but his last two videos have explained rules etc for the actual event. Would highly recommend checking them both out!

Joe - Has both sign up and collecting the basket in his video, but no hiding. Apparently Iskall paid the commissioned artist extra to make the Joe eggs as his normal skin instead of the Rick Astley april fool’s skin hahaha. 

Pearl - Doesn’t show anything in her latest video, however her vibes are very this season so I would reccommend watching it regardless.

Scar - Collects his easter basket and shows a few hiding spots on camera. His main aim is to make the other hermits laugh when they find his eggs rather than trying to win. Also accidently blows up something under Cleo’s base while Hypno just watches and laughed. 

Stress - Signed up in a previous episode (and showed her POV of the Iskall interaction, again 10/10 would recommend watching) and collects her easter basket. Shows all of her hiding places on camera taking some hints from the Iskall school of cheating sneaky hiding. She wants to win really bad. Does almost get caught by Zed, but he is a good sport and gives her 5 minutes lmao.

Wels - No video from Wels, but he is signed up to play so hopefully we will get a video of the easter egg hunt!

xB - Collects his easter basket and shows a few places where he hid the little eggsB eggs. He also, like a madman, gave the coordinates for his mega base as the place where other hermits can hide eggs. This man lives in a massive cave. I admire him a lot. 

Xisuma - Signs up for the hunt, and then shows a montage of him changing his skin a few times to some “egg” designs (he didn’t specify easter eggs lol) from the community to become Egg-suma. He will be hiding them in the next episode. UPDATE! Xisuma has uploaded a new video where he shows him hiding some of his eggs! He forgets to use his checklist at first and hides eggs in Keralis’ and Gem’s bases lol. 

Zedaph - Just shows his collection of his easter basket, no hidey hidey. 

[sloanthewench]

Eggy joe is just an egg, egg can't do much🥚🚫🔪

Reblog this and put if your icon could protect you in the tags

[sealie-seolh]

Brik

Where are the eggs? Nicolò thought. He opened the cupboard, they weren’t with the ragtag collection of mugs. Crouching, they hadn’t been put by the pans. There were no eggs on the counter. He had left them on the counter by the kettle. They weren’t on the kitchen table.

He wanted to make brik, indeed, brik à l'oeuf for Joe for suhoor. Eggs were critical. Joe had whimsically wondered on freshly prepared brik like his mother had made for him. Best eaten fresh, hot from the oil, with runny yolks and lightly seasoned. He had smacked his lips in contemplation and smiled at the memory.

Nicolò had mixed and folded and rolled out the light, paper-thin pastry the evening before. He had set all the ingredients on the counter ready, so that before the sun rose he could quickly prepare the pockets of deep fried, eggy goodness.

Joe stumbled sleepily around the flat, catching his shoulder on the door jamb.

“Morning, beloved.” Joe tucked in next to Nicolò, pushing his face into the crook of his neck. “What you doin?” He yawned massively.

“I was going to make brik,” Nicolò said sadly, “but someone has stolen the eggs.”

“Stolen the eggs!” Joe echoed, aghast. He pulled back—Nicolò missed his warmth—and blinked furiously.

“I left them there.” Nicolò pointed at the gap between the jar of harissa and a shallow dish of chopped up parsley.

“Who would steal the eggs?”

“I don’t have time to get more eggs before the sun rises!” Nicolò said, frustrated.

“It’s okay, Nicky. Andy must have had a late supper.”

“No. There are no dishes in the sink; she didn’t cook.”

“Ah, Sherlock Holmes has nothing on you.” Joe kissed his cheek.

“I have looked everywhere!” Nicolò bemoaned.  

“No one is going to--” Joe yawned, “--come in and just steal the eggs. They are here, somewhere.”

“I have looked!”

“What’s the matter, guys?” A blanket wrapped Nile shuffled into the kitchen.

“The eggs, someone has stolen the eggs!” Nicolò pointed at the space on the counter.

“Excuse me?” Nile looked at Joe. Looked at Nicky. Looked at the counter.

“Nicolò was going to make me brik,” Joe pulled a sad face. No brik.

“No one has stolen your eggs, Nicky.” Nile pulled open the refrigerator and grabbed the carton of eggs.

“What?” Nicolò stared. “Why did you hide them?”

“I didn’t hide them,” Nile said indignantly. “You left them out. I put them away.”

“Pardon?” Nicolò asked.

Joe waved his hand. “I take back the Sherlock Holmes. You looked everywhere but the fridge.”

“Why would I look in the fridge!” Nicolò protested.

“Americans,” Joe said sagely.  

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