The Fat Eris Cook book

[Pariah]

I'll change that.
Most of the names I just made up and therefore and pretty lame

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

well i LIKE it

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like it a lot! I just realized I forgot to say. It can be called "Teenage Pie" because that's DIRTY. 

[Richter]

 

[Cramulus]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14117857/The-Fat-Eris-Cookbook-Rough-Draft

This is looking bad ass, dude. I commend you on advancing this from Chaos to Confusion.

I like many of your font and style choices, particularly the headings.

Some of the text needs to be broken up a bit, or organized. For example, I'm looking at the bottom of page 3. It's a big running block of text.

Centering the text (which happens in many places) looks weird. For the ingredients, I'd either Right of Left align them, depending on whether you're on a left or right page (even pages left, odd pages right). Then for the instructions, justify or left align. Each instruction should have a bullet or number next to it. Or a line break to separate it from the previous item. Whatever you choose, be consistent throughout the document.

I think the entries might look better if you lay it out traditionally - list the ingredients first, then the instructions. The first page of each entry should have a picture. There can be more pics later, but the first page should have a pic.

Not fond of the fonts on page 6 or 18, use a thinner, serif font.


all in all, this looks great, man!

[Jenne]

  Also, you can use any recipe of mine you want, if you wanted.    Forgot to say that, I think.

Bloody Afghan Eggs

Ingredients:

tomato paste
habaneros
onions
garlic
eggs
salt
red pepper
black pepper

Chop the habaneros, garlic and onions and sauteed them a bit before adding the tamato paste (about 2 tbsp it looked like, for about 1 onion and 3 cloves of garlic).  Add the salt, red pepper and black pepper to taste.  Then, in the midst of everything, just crack the egg and plop it in...let it fry there in the stuff without turning them over.  They should be sunny side up when you serve.  Usually they eat it with plain yogurt/sour cream and bread.

How's that?



Oh, and the Borani Banjan Recipe, too

2 large eggplants
lots of oil
lots of garlic
salt
1 large can diced tomatoes, or 2 cans Italian style stewed tomatoes
plain yogurt
sour cream

Peel and slice your eggplant, into about 1/2" thick discs.  Set them out on a paper towel and let drain for a WHILE (half an hour plus?).

Put some oil into a LARGE frying pan (lots and lots of oil)--probably 1/4 cup.  Fry some garlic (about 3 cloves, chopped), and add eggplant slices, coating them well with the oil.  As they begin to soften, add some stewed tomatoes, then some more garlic.

Stir, add more oil if it's abosorbed too quickly.  Let stew/simmer on low.

When they start to fall apart, they are ready.  To prepare to serve, take a platter/dish and spread sour cream on it.  You can mix it with plain yogurt to make it even more sour.  If you have access to Persian markets, buy their liquid Qurut and mix it with sour cream/plain yogurt.  Spread the sour cream, etc. over the plate til it's in a thin coating. 

Then Place the eggplants on it, covering with the tomatoes.

This shit is damned fine and delicious.

[Pariah]

Thanks for the feedback people.

[Pariah]

Relating to pictures, I might just photoshop them up like I did for the whiskey cake one.

[Triple Zero]

Pariah: You go man! It looks great! I love the "sketchy" frame style you used.

Further, what Cram said, especially on the consistency part. For making chaotic-looking layouts, always remember the mantra: "you got to know the rules, before you break the rules", which means (in this case), it's better to start with a clean ordered layout and then break it down to make it look more "loose" and "messy" than to create a messy layout by not being ordered. take this as constructive advice, please. if you feel you cannot be arsed, that's fine too

Finally, I noticed you didn't include my "Toothpasta al Dente" recipe/story? Is it too long? Or because it's more like a story than a recipe (it's a good story, still). Link is on pg5 of this thread.

Finally finally, it might be cool to have a short semi-funny sort of text or paragraph next to the recipes that are just recipes and nothing else. Just to make it a bit more discordian-feel.

[Pariah]

Oops must have passed that one up. I'll add together as quickly as possible.

[Iason Ouabache]

I don't like the exact wording for my recipe so how about a little editing:


1 lb Pork brains (formerly beef brains. BEWARE THE PRIONS!!!)
1 Egg, beaten   
1/2  c Flour   
1/2  ts Baking powder   
Salt to taste   
Pepper to taste

Soak brains in salt water for roughly 10 minutes
Remove from brine, place in clear water and remove membrane.
Drain.
Beat in other ingredients with spoon. If too thin, add a small amount of flour; if too thick, add small amount of milk.
Fry on griddle until well done, turning once and only once!
Serve on buns with all the fixins, of course.

Suggested serving with a side of squirrel burgoo and a bottle of Double Cola.  Followed by a fried candy bar for dessert.

[Cramulus]

BUMP - Pariah - where'd you go?

[Richter]

"Annihilated Prok of Egypt"

1 chunk pork loin:  Marinade in balsamic vinegar, black and red peppers, paprika, cumin, adobo.

Wrap in 1/2 pack bacon.
Roast at 300 in a dutch oven for 2 + hours, or until JUST done.

Slice and eat.  Serves well as sandwich, or on noodles / rice.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20512.0

[Pariah]

Fuck sorry everyone.
Kind of dropped the ball on this one.
School's been a bitch recently and I haven't been able to go on PD or edit Fat Eris Cookbook as much.
Im going to start up again right . . . Now!

[Pariah]

I'm breaking the next drafts into two stages
1) Fix all the mistakes and fix all the stuff you guys talked about
Publish that as the second draft
2) Scavenge for some more recipes add those
Revise as necessary.