Porn and Cupcakes

Hello! First post here so I hope my coding is on par. ^_^

These are tricky to make this time of year, what with the trouble of getting fresh cranberries after January 1, but they are delectable. Scruffy around the edges and handsome in a roughed-up kind of way, but chewy and spicy with bursts of hot sweet ginger and tart cranberries. An excellent cookie for your Christmas gift tins. If you chop the cranberries super fine in a food processor, the cookies will have a pink tinge, but half-chopped cranberries will give you little blood-drops.

( Basch fon Ronsencookies )

(Crossover 201X Firo, that is.)

Firo's never been a huge fan of cooking, but he's had a long time to pick it up. And it became a lot easier when you could pick up a lot of the ingredients pre-made.

This soup is somewhat complicated, but it isn't terribly hard to make. More importantly, it's hearty, keeps well, and contains all the major food groups - so even if you're living by yourself, you can make a lot and then eat it a few times over the course of the week when you're too busy to cook something else.

Makes 4-6 bowls, which may actually be a less number of meals depending on how hungry you are. If you're feeding more than four people (or two hungry people for a few days) you may want to double it.

( Sausage and zucchini and tortellini soup )