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Apparently you really don't have to run beans through a pressure cooker for an hour if you're just cooking them and not adding salt, tomatoes and ham. The resulting substance, mixed in with the cooked onions, tofu, neo-paprika, and some garlic as an afterthought (25g), and then simmered for a while with miso (1½ cups), seems to be edible enough, but I don't think there's much point in adding "Ad-hoc Bean Mess" to my recipe file.
If using margarine or butter instead of oil, or honey instead of brown sugar, omit the water. When using honey, it's best to stir up the cookie batter frequently, as the oil and honey tend to settle to the bottom of the mixing bowl. If using honey and butter/margarine, be prepared to use more flour and oats, and let me know what works, because I've never tried it.
Somewhat to my surprise, this works out cheaper in terms of raw materials than buying the nearest equivalent at Safeway, even using the insanely expensive California-origin olive oil. I didn't take up baking my own cookies to save money, but it's a nice bonus.
Glister #1, Andi Watson, Image:
I liked this considerably more than Princess at Midnight, and supposedly there's been another issue in the meantime. I'll have to pester ye comics store about that. Anyway, Glister Butterworth is a supernatural investigator by default, because weird stuff just keeps happening to her. Isn't that always the way. From Jack Limekiller to Dirk Gently to that guy in Seeing Things, it's always something that drops in uninvited to mess up someone's life.
In this issue the spectral Other is a takeoff on Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the legendarily bad Victorian writer. The ghost of "Phillip Bulwark-Stratton" is determined to see his unfinished masterpiece completed and published, and Glister is willing enough to type it up and see it through the presses, but of course there are complications.
There's a short Skeleton Key story about an unconventional
vampire as a back-up feature, which
would give me an opportunity to compare the art to earlier stories in the
series, if I hadn't donated them all to science
posterity the library because I hadn't
looked at them in 10 years.
Based on memory though, Watson's current artwork is more detailed than his
later highly-stylized SK stories, and more accomplished than
the first ones.
Flight Explorer vol. 1, Various, Random House:
Like Glister, I got this off the all-ages shelf at Lee's Comics, and it's pretty much a short compilation of stories deemed suitable, or anyway saleable, for younger readers. The cutest story is probably Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl episode, "If Wishes Were Socks". The Akiko-esque Zita, feckless Robot Randy, and aggressively serious One receive from a grateful populace a sock that grants wishes. Hilarity ensues. The most whimsical is right afterwards, "Rain Slickers" from Rad Sechrist's Wooden Rivers, which features a weathercat, as in a cat who predicts the weather, accurately, as it turns out.
