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Experimental cooking day! I am making beef-and-bacon pie (the modern one, not the one with prunes). The pie crust is in the fridge, the filling is simmering on the stove - it's all very exciting. I don't do a lot of actual cooking with meat, so that's fun. I'm always worried that I'm going to be freaked out about because I'm weird about touching things, but when I come to it, touching raw meat doesn't actually bother me all that much at all. Unless it's greasy, in which case I do dislike it. This is a problem with bacon but not so much beef or chicken.

I don't like rosemary, so I left that out of my meat pie filling, but I did add garlic because everything is better with garlic. I may have to strain out most of the gravy and keep it on the side, as one of the commenters suggested, because I don't care too much for gravy and I really do want to be able to eat these.

In other experimental cooking news! I bought more half-pint jars and thus am going to put more freezer pies in them. So today is a pie-themed day. (If the meat pie ends up being good, I should make some of those to put in jars too...)

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Beef-and-bacon pie is a complete success, though next time, I might include more bacon. Or, possibly, just a stronger-flavored bacon. Still, they were quite tasty and the crust was amazing. There are nine more tiny muffin-sized pies to be eaten throughout the week.

Also, I made half a dozen apple-pies-in-jars which are even now in the freezer, awaiting a pie emergency. Come the apocalypse, I will have pie.

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A logical progression:

So, yesterday, I watched a whole bunch of Quatermass. And then, in the evening, I watched Image of the Fendahl, because that is basically Quatermass and the Pit but with the Doctor and Leela added. Which, of course, led to me thinking about Kaldor City (because it also has the Fendahl). Which, of course, led to me thinking about Blakes 7.

Thus, today, when I was not making pie, I have been watching Blakes 7.

OMG, you guys, this show, I love this show. It is endlessly fascinating to me how it manages to be simultaneously so good and also so awful. How does that happen? It is amazing.