Recipe: Niles's Cioppino!
Here’s that cioppino recipe I promised! If you made the seafood stock from the last newsletter, you can use it as an ingredient in this recipe. This makes about 4-6 generous servings, and it’s hearty and delicious.
I didn’t include a timing chart in this recipe like I did the one from twelve years ago, but generally, if you don’t want to overcook your seafood in this:
• clams and mussels cook for 7-10 minutes, at least until the shells open fully.
• squid or octopus should cook for about 5 minutes
• whitefish should cook for about 3 minutes
• shrimp should cook for about 2 minutes (depending on size)
• and most crab you can buy will be precooked, so it just needs to be heated through.
Upcoming Things:
I will be exhibiting at CAKE Chicago in June! I will also be at the Wisconsin Book Festival Fall Celebration in Madison in October! There’s also a chance I’ll be at a Chicago Public Library comicon at Sulzer Regional in December, more on that as details develop.
Hey Sarah, how’s the book going:
I’m doing ok! Need to have the outlines ready to send to the publisher in about a month, and I have 96 pages at least outlined. 96/192, so still a ways to go, but I’m halfway there! If I can keep doing the pencils for about 24 pages a week, I should be fine.
What I’m into lately:
So I’ve been listening to the audiobook of The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James, which is a lovely cozy little English countryside ghost story/mystery. Only: it has some fairly explicit and extremely steamy love scenes in it! Which I did not realize until the narrator launched into one while I was listening on a packed CTA train (on headphones, of course!)! I know no one could tell what I was listening to on my headphones, but I’m pretty sure I was still blushing hard listening to that in a public space. (,•﹏•,)
What Toki’s into lately:
Still insisting on being held like a human baby while I try to draw this dang book.
