A Grimm Feast: Delay

Hey there, Murderlings.

Unfortunately, due to a recent trip to the emergency vet, this week’s recipe is going to be postponed to next week.  We'll see you then.

A Grimm Feast: (Nick Loves) Juliette's Cilantro Lime Chicken (S2E06)

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Poor Juliette.  She goes into a magically-induced coma, wakes up in the hospital, and suddenly there’s this WEIRD GUY there who insists that he’s her boyfriend.  All his stuff is in her house, all her friends insist that she’s been dating him for years, there are pictures of the two of them together…what the hell’s going on?

Everyone hopes Juliette’s memories of Nick will come back.  When it looks like they won’t, she decides to try starting over instead.  She finds a recipe for Cilantro Lime Chicken that she once wrote down with the note “Nick loves!” next to it, so she makes it for dinner in the hopes that it’ll help them get to know each other again.

Say it with me: “Aww!”

A Grimm Feast: Juliette’s Honey Pineapple Salmon (S1E19)

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Juliette, meet Monroe!  This was the entrée she served when Nick’s “other” work partner finally came over for dinner.  They talked, they laughed…then everything got awkward when Monroe slipped up and Juliette started asking questions that the boys couldn’t answer.  Oh, boys.  If you knew then what you know now, you wouldn’t have kept it a secret from her for so long.

A Grimm Feast: Wu's Carpet Cupcakes (S1E17)

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Apologies for the delay on this post, everyone.  You see, Anna and I had to rescue a bus from a bunch of burning orphans and…well, we're back in town now and ready to serve up the next installment of baking shenanigans.

This recipe, you guys.  The research that went into this one nearly drove me insane.  And, as most writers find, the vast majority of that research doesn’t show up in the final product AT ALL.

While under the influence of a zaubertrank that was meant for Hank, poor Wu’s brain goes a bit haywire.  He starts eating everything without even realizing it, up to and including couch cushions, Chapstick, and carpeting.  I decided to make a cake and frost it to resemble carpet fibers.  Then I discovered that during the shooting of the episode, the couch cushion stuffing that Reggie Lee ate was made of pound cake.

“Perfect!” I thought.  “I wonder if I can make a replica of that.”

You guys.  If you are at all like me, don’t ever search Google Images for “couch cake.”  Google Images is a wild, dangerous place filled with novelty cake pans and fondant tutorials.  That way lies madness.

A Grimm Feast: Adalind’s Zaubertrank Cookies (S1E15)

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Ah, yes…the magical cookies that drove Hank to obsession and madness.  They’re a fairly basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a few diabolical additives.  For the sake of hygiene, we’re gonna skip using blood of the deceived and blood of the deceiver.

Instead?  Jam.

A Grimm Feast: Bud’s Cherry Pie (S1E15)

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Before he joined the Scooby Gang, our favorite refrigerator repairman—Bud the Eisbieber—ran screaming for the hills the second he laid eyes on Nick.  And by “hills,” I mean “local bar.”  There he proceeded to brag to his buddies about the Grimm he saw, then had to prove it by showing them Nick’s house.  Nick did not take kindly to these late-night tire-squealing visits, and made sure Bud spread the word that the Grimm’s house was to be left alone.  Bud, being the adorable nervous wreck that he is, apologized not by giving Nick and Juliette space, but by showering them with please-don’t-decapitate-me gifts.  One such gift was his wife’s cherry pie.

The Legend Sleepy Hollow S1E01 Pilot

We open with history, which gives us a good sense of how much that history will impact the present-day events. We also open on a battlefield, which sets the story of what-will-be pretty damn emphatically. And we open with Ichabod Crane, the revolutionary soldier, no more a schoolteacher who's scared of his own shadow than anyone else on that field. Sure, he flinches at gunshots. That's what you do when people are shooting at you. So right away we've established some points of congruity but also some significant points of discrepancy between this and the story we (all? what do they teach them in schools these days, anyway) grew up with. I can't venture a guess offhand as to why Crane is checking pulses on the redcoats aside from ensuring that they're really dead and can't be used as POWs; there's nothing to imply he's a medic in any case. More common battlefield practice would be an extra stab or slice to ensure they're dead and not going to attack you, but I suppose that would conflict with our image of Ichabod as Our Hero. Oh, and here comes the Horseman. Who is not at the moment headless, but he is indeed faceless, wearing something that looks like a reject from Man in the Iron Mask. (K: Or any Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie.) Oh goodie. That's always a positive sign, doncha know. Combat! Combat combat and there's something even now about the Horseman's attitude and body language pointed toward Crane that suggests familiarity or at least recognition, meaning that yes, Ichy, you're the target. Judging by the shout from one of his compatriots, safe money is that they expected this on some level, even if it's just Murphy's Law level. (Why nobody has introduced Crane to Murphy's Law onscreen, I do not know. I think he'd get a kick out of it.) So we have the Horseman taking one shot somewhere in the torso, Crane taking an axe to the chest and that is not something you recover from on an 18th century battlefield, generally speaking, and oh, there goes the head.