We’re reading The Lies of Locke Lamora here at the Robern House (well — Meg is rereading, I am reading), and when Meg came across the description of the Gentlemen Bastards cooking up some “sausages and pears sautéed in olive oil” she was consumed with a desire to try it out. This is what we came up with, and it is OMG TASTY.
3 bosc pears, sliced long
1 brown onion, julienned
4 sausages (we used some chicken-and-apple sausages)
1 tsp cardamom (or three seeds ground up in a mortar & pestle)
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
1 T agave nectar
olive oil
Heat olive oil to hotness. Throw in pears, onions, sausages. Sautée on high heat until onions are transparent. Throw in the rest of the ingredients and kill heat to almost nothing and simmer — the longer the better.
The success of this dish means I will now have to try to make a ginger scald…
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The truly bizarre thing is that the blog post I read on LJ _just_before_this_one_ was by Scott Lynch. In which he described attending ArmadilloCon, which was mostly interesting to me because he says he did a reading from his third Locke story, which I’m awaiting rather impatiently.
By the way, in case you haven’t been warned (Meg has probably warned you already), the first Locke book takes a rather harsh turn. Several of my acquaintances have had a really hard time getting past it, and I nearly stopped myself. Keep going. It’s worth it. And the second book is better.
Posted on 23 August 2009 at 4:49 pm.
Isn’t it a required plot development that a heist story takes a really harsh turn at some point?
Posted on 23 August 2009 at 7:35 pm.
It’s pretty harsh even for a heist scenario. Even I had to take a breather the first time I read the book.
Posted on 23 August 2009 at 11:28 pm.
Hi! Stumbled here from Mr. Lynch’s LJ, and I’ll be trying this recipe sooooon. :3
Ps. I remember getting to the shift in the story and being like, “WTF just happened?! D:”
Posted on 25 August 2009 at 3:31 am.