Oh hell yeah! Please count me in. 
I’ll be doing/cobbling together/baking/burning: Banana Bread.
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I hear it’s all the rayj.
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I’m uncultivated.
As a writer, I find it of the upmost importance to know as little as possible of the world I live in.
And you just ruined it for me.
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I luvluvluvluvluv that movie…
Speaking of banana bread: if I could afford it, I’ll throw in chocolate chips and walnuts and pecans and, if I also feel cheeky, top off the finished product with icing sugar.
@thegirlclaudia Nicely scrumptious! Though it wouldn’t really be Banana Bread, per se, and the short story would have to be called ‘How To Dispose Of An Annoying Diabetic Relation.’
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Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
You’re welcome!! It was the least I could do.
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She does have some near-death payback to exact on Jaysen, so it may all come together in a tidy package.
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Except Mrs makes my banana bread with pecans, chocolate chips, and serves with 1/4” cream cheese.
Why do you think I’ve had to loose 100lbs?
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@gr @Camy @Jaysen I can’t resist laughing at what transpired of the methyl alcohol
To be honest, I don’t drink and there was no physical methyl alcohol. I do think I’m beginning to have a crush on a different journalist K (but it’s way too early for me to say “I love you”) and I only just reached out to him, except that unlike the late GJM, K has a gatekeeper (seriously, a Fortune 500 C-suite exec once wrote that in all his business life “I’ve never met a journalist with a gatekeeper” so here’s a first) and so I’m a bit angsty to hear back from beyond the red tape. Sometimes I’m so inebriated with his stuff that I stay up at night singing to my imaginary depiction of him, almost dying of lack of sleep. What was I thinking? Congratulating myself on finding love… in the future, if and only if I could keep myself from bursting too soon. Anyway, scheduling so that I have my beet greens in order for Yellow Day 2022. 
Honesty is over rated when it comes to fiction. Let’s not get allow it to get in the way of a good yarn or joke. 
As to the journalist in question, I’ve no idea the value of a gatekeeper. Which isn’t necessarily honest (as I do see the value of someone filtering the Nigerian princes out of my inbox). I prefer the way one of my most admired but not famous executives utilized her gatekeeper. The exec managed the inbox and sent “this needs an executive level reply” to the gatekeeper. The exec replied to low level employees personally and the gatekeeper dealt with upper management. I was lucky enough to to move into the latter group and when I realized how she managed her email I was shocked. When I asked her she said “I get real and honest feedback from the front line this way. The rest of you… make a better case and convince someone else you really need my input. You’re paid to make the decisions. I don’t need to do it for you.”
Anywho… good luck. You now have us all thinking of chapters we could write for NiaD …
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I have absolutely no idea what’s going on… which is probably a good thing.
Heaven forbid there’s a cult of rabid methanol drinking journalists lurking in the basement of the Cookery Book’s production thread.
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This is the theme song to my life.
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@camy NiaD variant: Joke-Book-in-a-Day (JBiaD) with plenty of muckrakers guzzling toxic booze trying to make sense of the tips overflowing in their inboxes like some substandard re-enactment of Sherlock Holmes. I have many interesting run-ins with dudes and these near-romance stories make excellent compost creative fodder. Almost spat out my sip of water rereading the above.
Some of us have lives that are larger than life that we draw on under the pleasurable pressure called NiaD. This man K, if you knew his life story and what he’s been through, it literally mindf**ks everybody. Sorry for the language. I’m a very nice girl. I cook petite beet greens.
@pigfender Suddenly I remember that when we were doing NiaD, we can’t really map the real names to L&L usernames. I wonder if there’s a way to preserve our relative* anonymity in the CiaD as well? Because in normal NiaD, our real names are the bylines of our respective chapters. But if our real names are by our respective recipes, then we run the risk of unwittingly exposing our identities and I think some of us are not ready for that exposure. Thanks.
* Actually I did some data analysis over all the NiaD’s and special NiaD events and was able to map a majority of us to our usernames consistently… especially recurring participants like myself. It’s not hard. An Excel sheet and plenty of time did the heavy lifting for me.
@pigfender Sadly, I don’t cook anything worthy of being inside a book - so I think I am going to withdraw my eagerness to be involved. 
I look forward to reading the final tho 
May I interject with a contrary view?
No one makes anything worthy of being in a book. It is either a facsimile of something made by others or a poor attempt to mass produce a work of art. What IS worth being in a book is the story that accompanies your favorite recipe. That is, in my opinion, the real value of CiaD. A memory whispered in our ears explaining why macaroni and cheese brings tears to your eyes. This is the real recipe.
Now piggy will come along and say I’m wrong. I’ll get the dolphins to change his mind.
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I used to have a sense that @Jaysen just likes to rum-joke around, but this is gold. This is wisdom. This is carrot cake.
Hey @Susan67 – yes, I defintiely agree with what Jaysen posted. So much so, I’ll quote it again here:
CiaD is about the food writing. If you’ve ever had an emotional reaction to food, whether the growing, buying, cooking, eating, washing up afterwards, or even a bloody good argument with the person you were at the table with, you’ve got a story to tell that we’d love to read! 
I’ll take you off the list for now, but let me know if you want back in!
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