#Five-Spice

[buffetlicious]

More home-cooked dishes from mum to show you. I ever asked mum why she never do steamed fish. She replied that she like the crispiness of the fish skin. So for my economy rice takeaways, I often pick steamed or non-fried fish. Anyway, here is mum’s crispy Fried Red Snapper Steaks. I love this Bitter Gourd Stir-Fry with plenty of eggs and minced pork. There is also some leftover braised pork trotter from last night to go with the fluffy rice.

[elfelondra]

Cheese and crackers go well with grapes marinated in a homemade syrup spiced with Chinese five-spice.

[quo-usque-tandem]

Five-spice duck and shiitake pies

[fieriframes]

[I DON'T MAKE MY OWN FIVE-SPICE, BUT AFTER TASTING THAT, I THINK I WOULD. YOU'VE PICKED UP THE NICE NOTES OF IT. IT'S NUTTY. OHH. MMM. AND THE DUCK... IS SUPER TENDER. I SAVED SOME OF THE EGG FOR YOU.]

[himymthings]

Fruit Recipe Cheese and crackers go well with grapes marinated in a homemade syrup spiced with Chinese five-spice.

[kindrajoe023]

Recipe for Vegetable Banh Mi This vegetable banh mi for two stars quick-pickled vegetables and portobello mushrooms sauteed with fish sauce, sriracha, and five-spice. A Vietnamese specialty. 2 hoagie rolls split lengthwise and toasted, 2 teaspoons sriracha sauce or more to taste, 1/4 cup thinly sliced cucumber, 1.5 teaspoons garlic powder, 1/4 cup water, 6 sprigs fresh cilantro or to taste, 2 lime wedges, 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder, 1 jalapeno pepper sliced or to taste, 1/4 cup thinly sliced onion, salt and ground black pepper to taste, 1/3 cup matchstick-cut jicama, 3/4 cup rice vinegar divided, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 tablespoons fish sauce, 2 portobello mushrooms - stems and gills removed cut into 1/4-inch slices, 1/4 cup white sugar, 4 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1/3 cup matchstick-cut carrots

[waltonjake]

Spice Cake - Chinese Five-Spice Ginger Cake Black tea, orange zest, and Chinese five-spice are added to ginger cake to create an unforgettable dessert.

[430-kings-road]

Stir Fried Bok Choy Recipe Bok choy is stir-fried with cashews, Chinese five-spice, and garlic for a quick and easy Asian-inspired side dish.

[brittle-doughie]

Beast Stars (The Five Virtues/Beasts)

[Compassion/Scorn AU]

Platinum Salt Cookie: *hands Y/N a flower*

You: “It’s pretty, I love it, dear friend!”

You kiss their helmet where their cheek is located. You can’t see it, but Platinum Salt is blushing under the helmet.

Blueberry Milk Cookie: “Oh, Y/N Cookie! Look what I got for you!”

Blueberry Milk Cookie got you a whole bouquet of flowers that he hands you with suppressed giddiness!

You: “O-Oh! These are very lovely too, Blueberry Milk! Thank you!”

You kissed his cheek too which makes Blueberry smile widely. Platinum Salt didn’t appreciate being upstaged as a figurative fire ignited around them as they glared down Blueberry Milk.

Pure Sugar Cookie then abruptly showed up with a mountain of flowers.

Pure Sugar Cookie: “Even then, this wouldn’t be enough to show how much I cherish you, Y/N Cookie!”

You: “Oh my…..”

Pure Sugar Cookie: “Gimme kiss. Preferably on the lips!”

Platinum Salt had an anger tick on their helmet.

Blueberry Milk Cookie: “Showoff!”

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You: “I miss having cookies around…”

Shadow Milk Cookie: “Oh? Has the almighty, yet cranky Y/N Cookie learn to love again? In that case…”

You: “I miss reducing them to crumbs for having the nerve to fall for me.”

Shadow Milk Cookie: “Oh…can you still do that to me though?”

Mystic Flour Cookie: “Shut your freaky ass up, Shadow Milk Cookie.”

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Crimson Spice Cookie: “Why has Y/N Cookie been locked up in their room?”

Ethereal Flour Cookie: “They accidentally stepped on a Jelly Bee. It flew away just fine, but Y/N Cookie is in despair over it.”

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You hand gifts to Silent Salt Cookie and Eternal Sugar Cookie.

Silent Salt Cookie: “…” (They made it clear that they “hated” your gift.)

You smirked as you thanked them for “hating” it. Now it was Eternal Sugar’s turn-

Eternal Sugar Cookie: “I love it-“

Eternal Sugar Cookie was immediately yeeted into the stratosphere.

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You: “What do you got in your book there, Blueberry Milk Cookie?”

Blueberry Milk Cookie: “Only the finest knowledge that spans across all of Earthbread! I like to read it in my past times when I’m done with my duties for today!”

You: “You must be pretty smart with the knowledge of the land in your hands!”

Blueberry Milk Cookie: “Yes, of course! I am the Virtue of Knowledge after all, let me show you a page of my book-“

Photos of you slip out of random pages from his book after he accidentally opened it a little too loosely. Some looked like they were peppered in what looked like coral blue #2 semiglass lipstick!

You: “Very knowledgeable of Earthbread indeed, my friend. Perhaps a little too much information?”

Blueberry Milk Cookie: “These are necessary for my pursuit of knowledge, I swear!”

[romanados]

Vegetable Banh Mi With fish sauce, sriracha, and five-spice, portobello mushrooms and quickly pickled vegetables are sauteed in this vegetable banh mi for two stars. a specialty of Vietnam.

[oculuspentacam]

Recipe for Potato, Fennel, and Bacon Soup Chinese five-spice rounds out the potato, bacon, and fennel trio in this comforting soup made with only 7 ingredients. 2 tablespoons butter, 3.5 cups diced peeled potatoes, 5 cups vegetable stock, salt and ground black pepper to taste, 1.5 bulbs fennel chopped, 6 strips bacon, 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder or more to taste

[buffetlicious]

Back to Spicy Red Snapper Fish cooked in our very own blend of chilli and other spices mix. Braised Pork Belly is left over from last night to which mum added hard-boiled eggs and bean curds. Drizzle some of the braising gravy to the rice and I am ready to tuck in.

[ssansastark]

Potato, Fennel, and Bacon Soup The trio of potato, bacon, and fennel is completed by Chinese five-spice in this hearty soup, which only requires seven ingredients.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i'll be real whenever i gotta cook a steak, whether for myself or for others, that godforsaken letterkenny bit blares in my ears loud as shit

[someweirdoreblogger]

How often do you think Burning Spice Cookie will dress up his favored? In a lot of different attire, mayhaps?

You're like a doll, kept as a living trophy for your newly appointed Lord of Destruction, a merger piece of eye candy. Burning Spice Cookie would dress you far more than even Shadow Milk Cookie would, and he takes a fair amount of pride in his knits and kits of deceit.

There is a sort of shameless, dark repetition in the mysterious Jester's fine lace, but Burning Spice Cookie's is not one for subtlety. The Destruction's own taste is a fickle blaze, it rises and falls with history, changing with the tides of the ocean and the phases of the Moon. How his genosity flavors you is how much he himself, the fortunate one, favors you in entirety.

Burning Spice Cookie pampers, he even implures you to take advantage of this; it will shower you in gold and privileges. He begrudgingly admits such personally, as he coats you in his most recent luxurious spoils and creamy wools of war.

But pay heed, he always expects appreciation.

When Burning Spice Cookie ravages you in mountains of gifts, aplenty spices, and remedies, he fully anticipates you to unpack and wear them next sunrise.

Gods grant no miracles. Power doesn't like being questioned. He will answer your prayers of luxury and glory, but never at no cost, at his own personal behest.

He will send over boats, keep tallys, and receive your belief as obligation.

[yanderecookierunkingdom]

Six becomes Five

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Inspired by @brittle-doughie and his few works about the 5 Beasts! The ones were the reader being a part of their group caught my eye, so have this!

You were Compassion, brilliant, and beautiful. You aided the Cookies in their times of need, when they needed you most. Helping them up to their feet, using your powers to heal them, to soothe arguments. Your friends were once like that too.

Shadow Milk Cookie loved to put on plays for the Cookies, and have them join in. He'd always give you one of the main parts alongside him. It was only fair!

Burning Spice Cookie was always so valiant in defending them, with Silent Salt Cookie by his side. The two were nigh unstoppable, and with you near to always heal any wounds, they really were.

Eternal Sugar Cookie would often join you in aiding the common Cookies, always lounging on her cloud. She always made a spot for you, though. Mystic Flour Cookie would tag along too, going on and on about things seen. It always made you smile.

Until.. something changed.

You didn't notice it at first. It was subtle things, especially whenever you weren't around. Being cruel and hateful towards the Cookies, seeing them as lesser. For not having the power baked and blessed into you six.

You only saw it all too late when your comrades gleefully recounted all that they had done during one of your meetup sessions. You were briefly in shock before shakily congratulating them. You didn't want to anger them. You couldn't take all five of them at once in a fight..

However, you didn't need to wait long. Your Creators, the Witches, soon saw this and upon seeing you untouched by greed and corruption, asked for you help.

Mournfully, you agreed.

You called them all to the spot, saying you had a dance you wanted to show them. A special one, just for their eyes. It was difficult getting them in the exact spots, but once you did..

The Forks fell, trapping them one by one. You continued your dance until the sapling of the Silver Tree was planted, where you then bowed to them.

None of them could understand. Why would you betray them?

Why were you walking away?!

"COME BACK, YOU CAN'T LEAVE!"

For so long following that fateful day, you tried to stay there in Beast-Yeast, but it wasn't possible. Many of the remaining Cookies, that were the Faeire Cookies, couldn't bare to live there any longer.

So you said a mournful goodbye, and led the Cookies that wanted a new home to a new home. Crispia, you decided it would be called. Once many Cookies began to settle, you turned and left. You couldn't bare the thought of becoming like one of the Beasts, so you secluded yourself, changed yourself.

Your divine appearance, your name, everything. Once a Cookie representing Compassion, now you were a mere shadow of yourself. The only thing that stood constant was your Soul Jam, now a beautiful amulet around your neck instead of attached to your clothes.

It was the one thing you couldn't part with, no matter how hard you tried.

You rebuilt yourself. Made new friends, connections, loved ones.

Until the day came.

You had to return to that land to find White Lily Cookie. You didn't want to, but for the sake of the world, you had to.

Oh, it had all gone so terribly wrong. White Lily Cookie had awakened, you had your reunion with the Faeires, and then the Seal began to undo. Try as anyone might, it couldn't be resealed.

And from the rift.. came Shadow Milk Cookie.

Without a single thought, you put yourself between the group and him.

He opened his mouth to say something, but when he spotted you, his pupils went wide.

After so long of being trapped, hidden away by the seal and vines, Eternal Sugar Cookie's constant wailings about you being tricked, manipulated, or brainwashed had gotten to all the Beasts. It was the only explanation, it had to be.

And as Shadow Milk Cookie grins widely down at you, obession in his eyes, you swear to yourself.

You really shouldn't have come back to Beast-Yeast.