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Fraser/Kowalski, 800 words, PG-13
A million thanks to [livejournal.com profile] mergatrude for beta and cooking suggestions.

The Unofficial RCMP/CPD International Co-operation and Liaising Recipe Book




Kowalski Flambé



Description:
This spicy flambé may scare your less adventurous guests. It's an acquired taste, but worth persevering with -- under the Kowalski's dancing flames and tart retorts lie a subtle sweetness and poignancy that will haunt you for days.

Ingredients:
- 1 Kowalski, marinated
- hope
- bunch loosely chopped communication
- 3/4 cup wholegrain frustration
- 1 insult, seasoned to taste
- 1 retraction, finely chopped

Method:
1. Remove the Kowalski from the marinade and sauté over a low heat until it starts to sweat.
2. Add hot water, and stir.
3. Sprinkle with approx. half the hope, and stir.
4. Simmer for 3-4 weeks.
5. Gradually add the frustration, a few tablespoons at a time.
6. When the sauce has thickened, drop the insult into the brew.
7. Sprinkle with the chopped retraction. Although barely recognisable, this will subtly bring out the other flavours.
8. Remove from heat and stand in a cool dark place.
9. Crush the rest of the hope, and drizzle the juice onto the Kowalski.
10. Use the hope husks as a garnish.
11. Light with a match, and serve.

Serves: No one




The Whole Benton Fraser Enchilada



Description:
Although starchy, this dish is a dazzler and will make you the envy of your friends. Perfect for lonesome wallowing or formal occasions. Don't forget to add the underlying subtext at the end -- otherwise the "bitter pill to swallow" may be your own.

Ingredients:
- 1 prickly Fraser, still in its shell
- 2 phonecalls
- 3 oz packet of wholegrain misinterpretation
- 2-3 posthumous parental adages
- 1 temper, frayed
- essence of past mistakes to taste
- 1 cup Earl Grey tea, black and unsweetened

Method:
1. Using pliers, a crowbar or a blunt-headed axe, remove the Fraser from its shell. This is the tricky part.
2. Wash the shell and put it aside for later.
3. In a bowl, prepare the filling: peel the underlying subtext from the phonecalls and set aside for later.
4. Mix phonecalls and misinterpretation until they are blended into a paste.
5. Coarsely chop the adages and the temper, then add the PM essence.
6. Arrange all the ingredients except the underlying subtext inside the Fraser shell, and leave to stand for at least 4 hours.
7. Infuse tea with underlying subtext and pour over the enchilada, taking care not to spill any.
8. Serve cold.

Serves: The Queen, the Dominion of Canada, and the city of Chicago




Stuffed Fraser with a Frustration-Glazed Kowalski



Description:
Forget your diet -- this is a blowout! Dramatic, intense flavors vie for dominance in a delicious jumble of wild confusion and umbrage, but it's the reconciliation that leaves you with that sweet cinnamon-y after-taste. Not for novices, this dish is complicated and demanding but well worth the effort.

Ingredients:
- 1 Kowalski, unshaven and lightly toasted
- dried hope, unsweetened
- 1 Fraser stuffed with duty and false pride
- 1 cup polite sulking, strained
- 4 oz mild accusations
- 3-4 drops sarcasm
- salt
- 5 oz frustration
- 1 ripe umbrage
- 1 bunch wild confusion
- 2 moments of realization
- a generous handful of reconciliation
- cream

Method:
1. Score the Kowalski's flesh and rub the dried hope into the incisions.
2. Use a meat tenderizer to soften the Fraser. This will start to break down the starchy stuffing.
3. Skim the politeness off the sulking and discard. Then warm the sulking over a low heat until it's steaming slightly. Be careful not to let it boil or it will curdle.
4. Braise the Fraser in the sulking for 20 minutes. Add half the mild accusations and remove from heat. Leave to chill.
5. Combine the rest of the accusations with the sarcasm, and coat the Kowalski with the mixture.
6. Rub salt into the Kowalski's incisions.
7. Lightly steam the frustration until it becomes translucent. Wrap the Kowalski in the frustration.
8. Grind the umbrage. Tear the confusion roughly into pieces, and roll it in the umbrage. Remove the Fraser's stuffing and replace with confusion. Discard the stuffing.
9. Ensure the cooking area has plenty of ventilation, then squeeze the juice of one moment of realization over the Fraser, then the juice of the other over the Kowalski. Allow them both a moment to breathe.
10. Peel the frustration from the Kowalski, and place in dish next to the Fraser. Bake for 40 minutes.
11. Remove from oven and crumble soft handfuls of reconciliation over both of them.
12. Cream the Kowalski's pants, and serve.

Serves: 2




Canadian Self-Saucing Pudding with Polish-American Chocolate Kisses



Description:
This simple late-night indulgence is everything you've dreamed of: hot, rich, gooey and sweet. Eat it sensuously with your fingers or better yet, share it with a special friend.

Ingredients:
- 1 Fraser, unshelled
- 1 Kowalski, softened
- pinch of relief
- 2 drops pure love
- 2 cups sexual energy
- 1 gallon appreciation
- 1 murmured endearment
- 3 cloves laughter, peeled
- 1 happy ending

Method:
1. Place the relief, the love and the sexual energy into a large bowl and combine thoroughly.
2. Whisk in the appreciation.
3. Bring to the boil and allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Break the endearment in half, and add one half -- save the other half for your next batch.
5. Gently place the Fraser and the Kowalski in the liquid.
6. Add the laughter.
7. Garnish with the happy ending, and serve at intervals throughout the night.

Serves: Each other
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mergatrude.livejournal.com


I'll have my dessert with some SMOOSHCAKES, thank you kindly!

Date: 2007-10-16 06:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] keerawa.livejournal.com
I am fascinated and slightly horrified, as my brain skitter-scatters back and forth between reading this as a cooking recipie, a plot outline, and a caniibalistic feast. Score the Kowalski's flesh and rub the dried hope into the incisions is just creepy. It puts the lotion in the basket!

Using pliers, a crowbar or a blunt-headed axe, remove the Fraser from its shell. This is the tricky part. Yes indeed, it certainly is!

Cream the Kowalski's pants, and serve. *snickers*

And the ingredients themselves are a delight to read, because you evoke so much with those tiny little descriptions.

Date: 2007-10-16 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilac-one.livejournal.com
Is that a "My Boys" reference I see? Upon reflection, this pleases me!

Date: 2007-10-16 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brynnmck.livejournal.com
Oh, China, this is so clever! *admires* Adorable and brilliant. Well done! :)

Date: 2007-10-16 06:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jillsjourney.livejournal.com
That was completely awesome and weird and awesome. Very, very clever.

Date: 2007-10-16 07:03 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com
Heeee!

Waiter, I'll have one of everything, thank you kindly.

Date: 2007-10-16 07:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] luzula
Wow, this is so cool. It had me by turns laughing, going "awwww", sniggering, and feeling weird. I think the first and second ones are my favorites - you capture so much of their personalities. Although I do also like skimming the politeness off the sulking.

Date: 2007-10-16 07:16 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] eledhwenlin
Awesome. :D

Date: 2007-10-16 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joandarck.livejournal.com
Ow, this is too long for me to comment properly! I'll just do a couple from the first one:

Gradually add the frustration, a few tablespoons at a time

and

Crush the rest of the hope

ajklf;d;jklad;kla;lkf;kjladf;l;lka;kjld perfect

Date: 2007-10-16 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] somewhatdeluded.livejournal.com
Okay, so, it's one in the morning, and I'm getting up in a minute, but I just thought I'd skim through my f-list before bed and I found this. I'm trying to be quiet so I don't wake anyone up, but mostly all that's happened as a result is that I keep snorting with laughter as I try to silently wheeze my way to the end of each line. I have tears--actual tears!--of laughter streaming down my cheeks. I swear to God, this is the funniest thing I've read, like, ever. Oh, my heavens. I love it. ♥

Date: 2007-10-16 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com
Ooh, this is so clever and also deliciously evil and wickedly smart and HEE. Brilliant work, China. (And, hee, I just noticed the "save the other half [endearment] for your next batch" line on my second read-through. *appreciative grin*) *applauds*

Date: 2007-10-16 09:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gaffsie.livejournal.com
Awsome!

Using pliers, a crowbar or a blunt-headed axe, remove the Fraser from its shell. This is the tricky part. Understatement of the year. ;)

Date: 2007-10-16 11:30 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Wow, hey, that's new! You're so clever. *marvels*

&hearts

Date: 2007-10-16 11:30 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] meresy.livejournal.com
That would be me. WTF, I almost never get randomly signed out . . .

Date: 2007-10-16 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com
This is so fantastic! And now I'm hungry to boot!!

Date: 2007-10-16 12:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spuffyduds.livejournal.com
Hah! This is darling throughout, but for some reason--I think just the sound of it--"grind the umbrage" completely killed me.

Date: 2007-10-16 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-laugh-track.livejournal.com
This is adorable.

1. Using pliers, a crowbar or a blunt-headed axe, remove the Fraser from its shell. This is the tricky part.

So true.

Date: 2007-10-16 01:43 pm (UTC)
jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (canada!)
From: [personal profile] jadelennox
*dies*

Date: 2007-10-16 02:39 pm (UTC)
ext_15621: The Pixel in a paper bag (view_paradise's fraser)
From: [identity profile] rosiespark.livejournal.com
Oh my God, this is too utterly brilliant and fantastic for words!! ::flails all over the place:: I love it! It's so clever and funny and sad and true and... ::chokes on own squee::

Things wot I love most:
- the crushed hope in the first one. Oh, Ray!
- the posthumous parental adages, frayed temper and essence of past mistakes in Fraser's ingredients list.
- Skim the politeness off the sulking and discard. Then warm the sulking over a low heat until it's steaming slightly. Be careful not to let it boil or it will curdle. *snerk*
- Rubbing salt into Ray's wounds. Ow, ow, ow. But something that poor Ray is all too familiar with.
- allowing them each a moment to breathe after squeezing the juice of one moment of realization over each of them. Perfect.
- the list of ingredients in the last one. Awww. Especially half an endearment. Can't have the boys getting too soppy, can we? *g*
- Serves: Each other. Awww. ::sniffles::
- that it can be read as a progression. i.e. Happy Ending!!! Whew! After all the sadistic simmering, crushing, deshelling, use of a meat tenderizer and the like, this came as something of a relief. *g*

Date: 2007-10-16 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callumvixen.livejournal.com
this totally made my day and i cant stop giggling and awwwww-ing. thank you! :wub:

Date: 2007-10-16 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-grrl.livejournal.com
This is brilliant! I am just boggling in awe, and savoring.

Date: 2007-10-16 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pearl-o.livejournal.com
This is adorable and wonderfully creative.

Date: 2007-10-16 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brigantine.livejournal.com
Oh, ow, ow ow ow! And then, Yay and yay!

*snort* I love all the simmering and marinating. The boys do seem to do those things an awful lot. ;D

Date: 2007-10-16 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tallykat668.livejournal.com
This is entirely awesome and so damn inventive I'm just agog with envy and awash in adoration. Bloody fraking brilliant.

Date: 2007-10-16 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilac-one.livejournal.com
You are the queen of awesomecakes! This is absolutely brilliant, and you are a genius. Just remind me to be very careful if you ever cook for me.

Date: 2007-10-16 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etcetera-cat.livejournal.com
This is so fantastic. I totally want this cook book <3

Date: 2007-10-16 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malnpudl.livejournal.com
You are utterly brilliant. So very much love.
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