#cibis

[frayed-symphony]

Symphonia chibis!

[copperbadge]

For New Year's eve I decided I would cook myself some traditional Roman Jewish dishes, partly as an excuse to fry an artichoke. Eventually, I created a menu for myself, the Festa Alla Cinque Cibi or "Feast of the Five Foods" which I talk more about here (scroll down, I promise there's a translation). I decided to stretch the cooking over two days, in part because it's a lot to cook in one day and in part so that if something went wrong I'd have time to correct.

This is the first one I worked on (to give the dough time to rest in the fridge while I made the amaretti) but it will be the dessert course eventually. It's a dish I wanted to try in Rome but didn't get the chance to: Crostata Ricotta e Visciole, ricotta cheesecake baked in a sweet crust with sour cherries. There are a number of variations; I chose this recipe which seemed simple but reasonably accurate. I substituted Bon Maman cherry preserves for the sour cherries, but otherwise the recipe was made as written. AND I got to use my new ten-cup food processor to make the dough!

I called it Crostata Di Due Gatti (Two Cat Pie) for self-evident reasons. I'm only a little bummed I forgot to take a picture of it with the cheese filling on top of the cherry before I put the top crust on.

The bake took longer than 50 minutes to brown the crust, and I have a few suspicions about whether the recipe actually tested those weight measures before throwing them in there. The whole thing was still a little jiggly when I took it out of the oven after 70 minutes. But the thermometer said the interior was above 150F, and because I'm not eating it until tomorrow, I won't know if the cheese filling actually set until I crack it open, which should be a fun surprise.

Conveniently it used three egg yolks, because the next recipe I'm going to post in a bit needed three egg whites...

[ID: Several images from my kitchen. The first shows my new food processor with flour in it, and a small cheerful mixing bowl with a whisk in it where the egg yolks were beaten. The second image shows the dough in the food processor, having come together nicely. In the next row is an image of the dough wrapped in clingfilm, waiting to rest in the fridge; an image of the dough having been pressed into its baking pan, with most of a jar of cherry preserve in the bottom; and a photo of the pie with the crust atop it, shiny with egg wash, with two crust cutouts of cats on top of the plain crust. The final image shows the end result, a baked pie with a golden crust, jam oozing through the edges here and there.]

[localhypnoarts]

The most cube-ular of all time

[persontotnormal222]

I wanted to make my persona long time ago, like really long time ago, but I never did.

This is my real looking face, but in CHIBI way. I love drawing lately cute stuff.

Uh... and I can't draw hazel eyes.

[keo6323]

balls deep in another costumed (and religious themed) metal band.. 😔 when will it ever stop

[maryasmorevna]

okay, mi trovo in una situazione piuttosto gravosa. ho una caria profonda con un dente letteralmente "aperto" (è il premolare, per intenderci), che ha urgente bisogno di essere medicato e poi devitalizzato. giovedì dovevo andare dal dentista, ma non mi sono sentita bene e non ce la facevo ad andare a piedi (nessuno poteva accompagnarmi con l'auto/i pullman non sono passati), quindi ho spostato l'appuntamento ad oggi. peccato che il dentista mi abbia appena mandato un messaggio dicendo che è influenzato e devo aspettare fino a venerdì. sono due giorni che vado avanti a ibuprofen e preghiere, e ora l'antidolorifico non fa neanche più effetto. presumo che il dente sia in una fase tra pulpite e infezione. non so che fare... chiamare un altro dentista? aspettare per vedere se effettivamente è un'infezione con qualche sintomo più grave e poi contattare il pronto soccorso odontoiatrico? insomma. che situazione di merda

[parolerandagie]

Cibi surreali - 16

Birra Anal-colica: bevanda a base di malto e luppolo che, seppur priva di alcol, è foriera di spiacevolissimi effetti collaterali, esplicati dal nome stesso.

[brun00u11]

[lupismaris]

All rugby tourneys should allow teams to perform their Hakas/Manu Siva Tau/Cibis before matches especially when it's pacific nations vs pacific nations build them into the schedule like you do the anthems you cannot deny it makes it all better

[igotsbook]

Two of the gods!

[cautiondontcut]

Let there be light!

[mr-aftons-rotting-pussy]

one thing im just gonna have to learn to let go of me thinks is like. not being able to put as much detail into each individual characters walk-around sprites n save that energy for the character portraits. but god....... i am one stubborn bastard....

[copperbadge]

La Festa Alla Cinque Cibi!

[ID: My little cafe table near the kitchen, with dinner laid out on it: a plate with fried artichoke, cuts of slow-cooked beef stracotto, and two potato dumplings, with another holding a slice of pie and some cookies nearby. As a finishing touch, I included a bottle of Coke Zero, in homage to my being unable to get any Diet Coke while I was in Rome. The decks of cards in the upper left are the tarot and oracle cards I'm using for New Year's fortunetelling in a bit.]

The Festa Alla Cinque Cibi was a success! Everything came out at least close to what it ought to be and all was delicious. Plus I had forgotten I wanted to make a sauce for dipping the fried artichoke leaves into, but the sauce that the beef cooked in came out so flavorful and nice that I just poured out a little bowl of it and used that for dipping.

[ID: A closeup of the dinner plate, showing a gold-red tomato pesto sauce, the chunks of slow-cooked beef, the fried burik dumplings, and the mahogany leaves of the fried artichoke.]

It is a somewhat monochromatic meal. I probably should have included some kind of non-fried plant or something.

The artichoke was a bit spiky but those buttery inner leaves were perfect. The beef almost didn't come out -- I thought I'd ruined it by browning it too much and making it tough, but then in the last half hour I bumped the temperature on the slow-cooker and the collagen almost immediately began to melt, turning it much more fork-tender and velvety. I'm very much looking forward to leftovers on sandwiches. The burik reheated well, but are also pretty good cold.

And the ricotta cheesecake DID set!

[ID: A close-up of the ricotta cheesecake, with rich deep red cherry jam on the bottom and an airy-textured cheesecake filling under a thick upper crust; a few light tan amaretti cookies are visible on the right.]

The crust was a bit thick but not at all dry. The ricotta filling was very plain, but I prefer a less-sweet pie and the cherry preserve on the bottom added all the flavor needed, really. The amaretti kept pretty well, and tasted nice with the Coke Zero.

The artichoke is a bit of a showpiece, I don't think it's something I'd cook very often, though everything else was varying levels of "yeah I could eat this on the reg". The burik are really delicious and the stracotto is pretty low-maintenance. I liked this version of the cheesecake but I'm not sure if its simplicity would appeal to a lot of people. The amaretti are great, and both simple to make and gluten-free.

All the process photos and recipes are linked in the "festa alla cinque cibi" tag, but I'm definitely going to have to copy a few over into my regular cookbook.

I will admit that by the time I sat down with it all I was pretty tired, so I just kind of inhaled it all and left a wreckage behind. But the leftovers are cooling off before being put in the fridge, and frankly the dishes are 2024 Sam's problem.

[flintsilvers]

reading nihei's notes on blame! and theres a line about the administration that really struck me. he says that in the lower strata (meaning, while killy in still in the lower strata aka at the beginning of the story) the administration is thought to be the same as the safeguards, until killy makes his mission to find the NTG known. nihei says "maybe they found hope in rebuilding the world in the quest of Kyrii and friends, and as such are trying to cooperate?"

and like. there's something so sweet about the only remaining sane system in this infinte, thousands years old sentient city where AI have developed mental illnesses unknown to man, giant robots have gone senile and nobody remebers anything anymore, looking down at a) a minuscule man who is probably as old as the city and has lost all recollection of who he is/used to be and b) an insane scientist who singlehandedly almost destructed a whole stratum by herself and went "thats the only two people who can succeed in this". like the administration spent thousands of years just letting the safeguards run free because they didn't have the means to stop them and because no one, for millennia!!, had proven to ever even stand a chance against the safeguards. until killy meets cibo. and then the administration leads them to toha heavy industries where they meet seu who has the NTG, and they it leads them to dhomo and iko.

like the administration had resigned themselves to just wait for the safeguards to exterminate the remnants of humanity until a little guy with a small gun and the smartest woman in the universe showed up and then there was hope again!

[elisyn]

Felt like drawing something cute, so here’s a cibi witch 😊

[afrotumble]

Ardie Savea LEADS the haka for the FIRST time