I had that song stuck in my head, and I remembered that there was still some leftover tri-tip in the fridge. So I made a white sauce, then turned it into a brown sauce with a bouillon cube. I sauteed some onions in another pan with the tri-tip to warm that up, and I added that into the brown sauce. Then I scrambled up some eggs and toasted some leftover homemade dinner rolls for a breakfast biscuits and gravy. On the side is more watermelon tea, but this time with white peony swapped out with the Russian Herbal blend. It has a nice light taste to it. Aside from the typical daily pepsi my weekend has pretty much been on decaf, which has been nice. I’ll be taking a firey black tea blend to work tomorrow though, probably going to need it. I also have some more leftover breakfast to enjoy it with.
I woke up today and wanted to make a different kind of sauce for my weekly fancy-ish breakfast. I made a basic white sauce in one pan, and in another pan I fried the bacon, then I fried the onions in the leftover fat, added tomatoes, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Italian herbs and a couple dashes of hot sauce for an added kick. Then I folded it into the white sauce and added smoked gouda. I was quite happy with the results, but I think in the future I might use a Sherry or Marsala, maybe even a type of Whiskey or Vodka to flavor the sauce. I also mixed the sauce with some noodles for lunch. The tea is also a special brew as well; Sweet Watermelon tea mixed with a Russian Herbal tea, both from the same friend! I’ve pretty much been drinking that all day. For extra sweetness I added a little lemon sugar. I like the flavor pattern, would probably taste good iced too.
This has been a fun year for making game pr0n. There will be more to come in the new year, but I will be taking a hiatus for a bit to get caught up again and take care of a few other projects. I’m aiming at February at the very latest, mid January being the soonest.
I came home from work this afternoon and it was in the mid 40’s, we’ve been having a lot of strange cold weather here and today was no exception. We had leftover tri-tip steak in the fridge from last night’s Christmas feast, and I thought it would be a good idea to turn some of it into some Pho. For those unaware; Pho is a spicy Vietnamese beef and noodle soup made with rice noodles (mostly brown from what I’ve seen). I bought some serrano peppers, cilantro, brown rice noodles and Pho broth. It was quick, delicious, and it cleared my sinuses. I did want something that would warm me in cold weather after all. :v
I hope everyone is having a peaceful holiday, or just a peaceful day off from work, or a peaceful day. I woke up, drank eggnog, made some bacon and eggs, opened some wonderful presents and had a friend over for dinner.
I got a couple games, and some awesome additions to my Asian pantry! Some of the gifts made me laugh, in a good way of course. I can’t say why, because I still need to send off a certain someone’s gifts and they read the blog, so all I can say is we’re on the same wavelength. I’m hoping to send them off tomorrow, this weekend at the latest; Now that the lines at the post office won’t be as ridiculous I shouldn’t have any issues. I have other things lined up for the weekend too, nothing too exciting. There will be a new year’s video to release, and I’ll probably take a small hiatus from releasing any videos. I need to can more videos, and I’m pretty sure Part 3 of my current Skyrim saga won’t be ready on time. I also have a few other projects that are higher priority regarding the website(s) and my webhost. That alone deserves to be its own blog topic. :zorak: I also want to focus on doing some after holiday cleaning up. It’s almost a tradition for me every year to tidy up after getting new things. Kind of like you’re making room for the new, and cleaning off the old. I have a lot of edible gifts that I look forward to also blogging about at a later date.
One of the games I remember receiving for Christmas when I was a kid was the original Tomb Raider. It was the only game that I had on both a console and a PC. To this day I still find reasons to return to this particular game, especially now knowing how moddable this game is. I found a full Christmas mod for the first original trilogy, and it felt right to start at the beginning with it to take in the full experience. I’ve recorded the stream, and will probably fashion it into a holiday video for next year if I have enough content. While I sit on this one and think about how to edit it, we can at least enjoy pictures from last night’s sight seeing:
From the mansion level to the main game, everything is covered in holiday cheer. The mansion has a custom winter skybox, as well as Christmas lights painted throughout the house. Even Lara is wearing her Christmas PJ’s, which for some reason bare her sequel… seems a tad narcissistic doesn’t it, Lara?
I’ve had to laugh at quite a few changes to the game. Wolves, bears, bats and even the skeletons have “Christmas Sweaters” painted onto their models, and we also have candy cane bridges and gates. Some to make you laugh, though there were others that made me scratch my head.
Anytime I swim underwater I keep randomly losing blood. My health isn’t actually going down, but for whatever reason blood comes out along with the bubble particles that are supposed to come out of her mouth. When you swim like this it seems like Lara’s Aunt Flo is having a visit anytime she goes for a swim. Truly this is a Christmas story that I will be telling for years to come. :zorak:
OH MY GOD THEY SKINNED SANTA
I think I found something to pick back up again when the holidays return once more. I’m definitely not going to finish this mod by the time Christmas is over, meaning I’ll have a new tradition to look forward to! I haven’t even scraped the tip of the iceberg with this mod, but I anticipate there will be much laughter as I continue through this version of the game, with plenty of eggnog chai in tow.
I wonder what other people have for holiday game memories? This one was by far one of the most memorable for me.
This is turning into one of those games that can’t be easily put down. I played for a couple hours last night, and then I woke up and played a bit in bed. It helped my computer generate some heat to keep the bedroom warm, handy when you wake up to cold weather. I’ve continued playing it through the evening and so far I’ve been enjoying it. I’m playing on Human difficulty and it feels a little too easy though compared to the older games. I’m thinking when I do my second playthrough I’ll bump up the difficulty, and even install some mods. The Nexus already has a few things that have piqued my interest.
So far I’ve played as Nero, V and Dante. V seems easier to play compared to Dante or Nero, but still takes some getting used to since his fighting style is quite a bit different. Instead of fighting straight on you wear your enemies down using your familiars, and then once the enemies turn purple you can successfully go in for the kill with your cane. There is a sort of yin and yang at play here, because your demon pets can’t finish off an enemy, and you can’t wear them down like Nero or Dante. I’m not sure if I have a favorite between the three; they’re all fun and they all compliment each other in fighting styles. I especially enjoy the arsenal of arms or “Devil Breakers” Nero has to choose from throughout the game.
There is a healthy selection of Devil Breakers that you’ll find throughout the game that grant you different abilities, some are insanely powerful and others exist mainly to make you question why; aside from the pic above there’s a Breaker designed with your girlfriend in mind… and no it isn’t a dildo, but may as well be. :v:
The graphics for the PC version are nicely optimized. Everything runs butter smooth on ultra, even when playing in 4K downscaled. I may have to install this on the laptop for those special days at work. :zorak:
It’s my Mother’s birthday today, and since she’s working late I not only made a hot pot of homemade chicken and brown rice soup with black beans, corn, tomatoes and chiles. Something that will be easy to heat back up, and gets more and more flavorful as it sits. I mixed in some smoky chipotle salsa to give it a nice deep flavor.
It might seem weird to server garlic bread on the side, but it actually tastes pretty good when dipped. I bought a couple artisan loaves of garlic bread (with full garlic cloves baked in) and made my own garlic butter to spread on it. I also made a cake for the occasion:
I don’t do cakes too often, so I’m surprised it turned out as well as it did. This is a chocolate cake with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting. I can’t wait to try it tomorrow! I wanted to find some small Reeses to chop up and spread all over the cake but I could only find the big ones, and the consistency just wouldn’t be the same.
Again, work has been keeping me pretty busy this week. I’m expecting the last of my packages tomorrow, so hopefully this will be the weekend where I can finally ship them off to their respected locations. There will also be a video dropping tomorrow, and if I’m lucky some form of livestream this weekend. I also bought the DMC5 Deluxe Bundle during the Steam Winter Sale, and want to have a go at that this weekend. Not to stream, but just to check out. Probably gonna get my ass kicked, but as long as I get to slice and shoot things I’ll be ok. I’m thinking of buying a few other games too, after all I do have until January 2nd to make my decisions.
