#GNU Terry Pratchett

[petermorwood]

Parsnip soup - the garnish recommended by Terry Pratchett for adding character to a beloved copy of "Good Omens"...

...has appeared in a couple of posts, first here and then, when @dduane decided to make some, here.

She didn't use any of the recipes I'd posted but literally cooked up something slightly different off the cuff, and it is (trending rapidly to was) delicious!

Full info on DD's blog here. It's not so much a recipe as an illustrated step-by-step.

*****

NB, that post doesn't mention, because her IBS meant she didn't include, the chopped half onion and two minced cloves of garlic sautéed in smoked-roast-bacon fat which I added to my batch. It's just fine without them, but IMO is even better with, if non-dodgy digestion permits.

*****

Parsnips and carrots over here are, as her post says, all too often mashed, one of the great culinary non-delights of my childhood. They're frequently sold together for that purpose, either raw or pre-cooked...

...and it's a pleasure to find them specifically meant for roasting...

...though I can handle a peeler, a knife and a selection of seasonings well enough not to need to buy them like this.

The soup was sampled two ways, first in its basic form as roasted veggies and roasted smoked belly pork...

...cut into spoon-size pieces and simmered in a light but quite spicy broth (there was a fumble when shaking on the chillis!)

After that DD made flour-and-butter dumplings (Middle Kingdoms style) which absorbed some broth and made the soup a bit thicker.

Both, as I've already said, are - soon to be were - very good indeed.

10 / 10, will make again.

#food and drink #parsnip soup #parsnips #roasted parsnips #roasted bacon #dumplings #Neil Gaiman #GNU Terry Pratchett #Good Omens novel

[magpiesketchins]

Moist Von Lipwig voice: Why are you telling me this, sir?

Vetinari voice: Because no one will ever believe you, Mr. Lipwig.

Based on this post because look I just. I just had to ok.

#lord vetinari #moist von lipwig #discworld #vetinari #magpie.png #memes #my art #gnu terry pratchett #gnu #I don’t think I’ve drawn anything this fast #And if the subject of the painting bares a resemblance to a certain someone then that's between Vetinari and his private gallery isn't it

[sayuri-of-the-valley]

"[...] said Aziraphale, who had never done other to get rid of demons than to hint to them very strongly that he, Aziraphale, had some work to be getting on with, and wasn't it getting late? And Crowley had always got the hint."

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

#good omens #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #Aziraphale #Crowley #Ineffable Husbands #book omens #good omens book #aziracrow #gnu terry pratchett #gifs

[projectorthus]

Tonker and Lofty on the brain again.

I like to think they’re off committing crimes together.

#monstrous regiment #discworld #discworld fanart #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #art #fan art #comic

[stupidphototricks]

Witches in rural Discworld do everything. They're de facto country doctors, midwives, morticians, veterinarians, small claims court judges, food pantries, emergency services, just whatever. And 90% of it isn't even magic (though they can do incredible things), it's working hard and helping people and being respectable and a good person and making everyone a little bit afraid of you.

(Meanwhile all those venerable wizards up at Unseen University are like, accidentally opening portals to faraway lands or creating new gods or becoming obsessed with Music With Rocks In and basically being chaotic and useless, I'm just saying)

#terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #witches

[moss-ghoulette]

There's a lot of lilac near my house

Had to take some pictures before it's gone (will take some more)

#discworld #the glorious 25th of may #night watch #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #pterry

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Every one of you needs to read Going Postal by Terry Pratchett right now. Especially if you do anything related to tech, finance, or public services. I am not kidding.

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #terry pratchett #going postal

[aeshnacyanea2000]

Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people.

-- Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!

#Terry Pratchett #discworld quotes #GNU Terry Pratchett #quotes #Guards! Guards! #Ankh-Morpork #Havelock Vetinari

[dimity-lawn]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #the colour of magic #the light fantastic #rincewind #the wizzard #wizard #wizards #forest of skund #chelonaut #doctor who #doctor who meme #the impossible astronaut #anniversary

[akboro]

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #quotes #jingo

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

From the Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously 🥺❤ (you can watch it here in US or with US vpn :) <3) (or just this bit on youtube here :))

Neil Gaiman: I miss him most when I get stuck. You know, I'll just be working on something and I'll go, "Oh, this isn't quite it," and all I want to do is just call Terry, tell him what's going on and have him say, "Ah, grasshopper, the answer is there in the question." And I'd go, "Oh, for fuck's sake, Terry, just tell me."

[Terry Pratchett laughing]

#good omens #gointerviewedit #terry pratchett #neil gaiman #terry and neil #terry interview #interview #neil interview #gnu terry pratchett #neil gaiman dream dangerously #fun fact #btb #dream dangerously #❤ #neil about terry #grasshopper the answer is there in the question #ixi says ngk

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism

#gnu terry pratchett #boots theory #sam vimes #this is why we can't have nice things

[cephalopod-celabrator]

Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

#discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #tiffany aching #monstrous regiment #terry pratchett watch

[sing-you-fools]

@neil-gaiman you're a saint

#good omens #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #good omens season 2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #queer representation #bluey #oc meme #sing-you-fools #1k #5k #10k #25k

[captainfantasticalright]

Sir Terry Pratchett: on writing Good Omens with Neil Gaiman

I love the whole interview but this little snippet most of all:

Terry: “You can usually bet, and I’m sure Neil Gaiman would say the same thing, that, uh, if I go into a bookstore to do a signing and someone presents me with three books, the chances are that one of them is going to be a very battered copy of Good Omens; and it will smell as if it’s been dropped in parsnip soup or something in and it’s gone fluffy and crinkly around the edges and they’ll admit that it’s the fourth copy they’ve bought”.

You can never own enough Good Omens copies.

#good omens #terry pratchett #neil gaiman #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens fun facts #good omens interviews #this place is lacking on Terry interviews #i will bring them here #parsnip #gnu terry pratchett

[theotheristhedoctor]

This is the highest compliment I can bestow, but Dungeon Meshi reads like it was written for, if not by, Terry Pratchett.

Oh, you have a dungeon with monsters and adventurers? How does it work? Who pays? How do you get enough supplies? People will eat anything when hungry; do they eat the monsters? People will cook feasts from rotten meat and weeds; what feasts can you make with monsters?

By the way, here is a terrible pun about soup.

You want heroes to have peril, but also to live? Easy! Just have a ressurection spell. Well how does it work? What's the point? What would people give to live forever? What would people give to die?

Here's a dwarf whose magical shield is a wok.

And if they come back, it still hurts right? Do people remember? What happens if they forget that, outside of the dungeon, they can't come back? What if the thing that brings them back also ties them to the dungeon more and more, changes them, makes them different without knowing why.

Whilst you were thinking about that, the halfling founded an adventurers guild. It's an actual union with dues etc. btw he's a deadbeat dad apart from this.

The dwarf from earlier carries familial trauma that will haunt you for the next decade. The protagonist holds his sister's skull as the first proof that there is anything left of her. The two female leads share a love so deep that giving it a name would pollute it. The protagonist's sword is a mollusc.

#Worthy successor #Dungeon meshi #gnu terry pratchett