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#The Romance Recipe
the-final-sentence · 2 years
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'I don't need to put our love on camera to know it's real.'
Ruby Barrett, from The Romance Recipe
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joytri · 9 months
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In the end, it's the memories you make
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wearethekat · 1 year
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December Book Reviews: The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett
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Picked this one up from the library because it was a sapphic romance! Amy is owner of a new and struggling restaurant who's hired her reality cooking contestant crush in an attempt to get more people to visit the restaurant. But Sophie feels crushed by the limelight and the social media pressure-- and increasingly distanced from the reasons she loves to cook. Can they navigate their mutual attraction and manage to save the restaurant before it fails?
This was a sweet romance, but it didn't quite click for me. Anxious Sophie and grumpy Amy were interesting, but not particularly compelling. However, I was glad that the reality TV part mentioned in the cover copy was relatively minor, since I dislike that trope. It's nice to see more sapphic romances being published, but this one is just okay.
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Title: The Romance Recipe
Author: Ruby Barrett
Series or standalone: standalone
Publication year: 2022
Genres: fiction, romance, LGBT+, contemporary, food
Blurb: Amy Chambers will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove...but her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status can bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane. Sophie Brunet just wants to cook. She doesn’t want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn’t want to deal with Amy’s take-charge personality, and she doesn’t want to think about what her attraction to her boss might mean. Suddenly, they’re presented with an opportunity: a new foodie TV show might provide the exposure they need. An uneasy truce is fine for starters, but making their dreams come true means making some personal and painful sacrifices...and soon, there’s more than just the restaurant at stake.
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1esbrarian · 2 years
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have you read the romance recipe?
I just started reading it!
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its-ashleyreads · 2 years
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Currently Reading: The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett
This is my first sapphic romance! And one of the leading ladies is bisexual! So far I’m not loving the social media/reality show aspect of the plot and the characters are definitely flawed, but I’m looking forward to seeing how they come together.
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jahnavisurenda-21 · 2 months
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Hazbin Hotel||Alastor X Reader||Calming Afternoon
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The weekend has just begun, and all my other outdated plans will just have to schedule themselves at my convenience. Food just seems to brighten the day, even in the most unexpected times.
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It was an especially hot summer noon in hell, This wasn't a place where sinners were really into gardening, or watching cherry blossoms while they sip some green tea, it was unpleasant.
Unpleasant enough, to make Alastor cancel all his radio shows for the day, he told you, "I know my dear! Someone with style, and flare needs to make this hellish afternoon a little bearable but, you see my dear this sun has made me quite unmotivated to put the pen to the paper or sit at my office desk!"
You were a little disappointed, at his decision because you looked forward to his audios to add to your collection you had one for rainy day audios, comfort audios, he did those only for you, and some audios when you just wanted to hear his voice. Those audios always set the mood right.
Sometimes you would play them on repeat while drinking a can of soda, or drowning in caffeine when you just didn't feel like yourself.
Alastor picked up your sudden shift of mood, "My dear I promise to make you another audio, I'm working on that one for almost a week. It almost feels like a brag more than anything!" Alastor looked at you, "All though It flatters me immensely knowing you enjoy these audios more than those silly books you read, and that noisy picture box!"
You got excited, something he had been working on? For a week? You resisted yourself to ask more questions, Alastor would simply smile more wider than he usually did.
Sometime in the late afternoon, Alastor was looking at you with a disapproving look, "No, my dear, I must disagree I don't enjoy eating this lazy type of food it certainly gives no quality to the food. Nothing better than a homecooked meal."
Alastor, However, did cook the sweet dessert so ward or distract you from the sun and it felt even better when he shared it with you. Alastor had discarded the heavy coat and casually crept towards you where you lay you were flipping through a new romance book.
He should be asking you, where were you getting those books?
For the evening you were relieved to see some rain had cooled the land, and Alastor was stroking your hair, as he watched a movie you picked out on the picture box.
He was delighted to how these few hours had passed in your company, you were pleasant as always, he missed your voice. And was almost glad he feed you homecooked meals and prevented a day of lazy food.
The rest of the night you spent with each other where you talked about the things that happened over the week, what you intend to do, and to your excitement Alastor had created a meal prep plan for you, so you could enjoy.
Alastor is really good at cooking, it's like adding proportions to the meal flows in the blood, he teaches any recipe you particularly like. But he also loves it when you put in that extra effort to put together a good Lunch, or dinner. It's different when he eats your meals.
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blmpff · 5 months
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If you feel like watching something short and sweet, filled with cooking metaphors and like tattooed guys, do I have a 20min short for you:
PURE VANILLA (2023):
Singapore (eng with eng subs also available), friends to lovers
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Gabriel and Charlie are friends who run a cafe together. Gabriel struggles to make sense of Charlie’s feelings for him, as the two navigate their budding romance. Temperature heats up when an old friend, Alex, unexpectedly enters their lives, raising questions about their future together.
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chefchatter · 2 months
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Once you have this French Grilled Cheese, you'll never look back! Layered with grated Gruyere, fresh thyme leaves and our very own Jambon Sec and Dijon mustard, it's the perfect lunch time combination.
JAMBON SEC
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dathomirdumpsterfire · 5 months
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Chat writes the plot! Time for more 👑🐲🐟 KotD!
🔥🔥 don't forget to reblog tysm! 🔥🔥
~King of the Dragonfish: Chapter 13 (NSFW!)~
It is the shivering that wakes him. Such a small sound, cloth scratching against the stone floor, rasping against itself... and yet something about the tremor niggles at the predator in the back of his mind-
Maul chuckles as he wakes the rest of the way, stretching languidly. There is no back or part to the predator in him. He is all predator, a king of the dragonfish.
Luminous yellow-green eyes land on the source of the shivering, finding a chilled jedi having moved away from the heat of the deformed magma ball the sith had generously provided for warmth.
Fool.
He rises from the floor and sways that way, curving over Kenobi like a vulture, leaning down until he is inches from the man's face. The jedi's whiskers vibrate from his tiny shudders, a lock of his hair wavering as the root of it moves. Maul touches it, eyelids drooping at the softness.
Such a soft, fragile jedi. With little bits of glowing moss still caught in the strands of him.
Maul flutters his claws in the air out, then curls them in, and lifts. His force signature wraps around his prisoner, and raises the man a scant few inches. The sith pushes, and returns Kenobi to the warmth he needs.
As soon as the near-human feels the heat he rolls toward it and settles down. Maul smirks, pleased with his success, and curls up nearby to think.
His thoughts wander, from recalling the strange mood he had been in last night, to pondering how better to jail his captive. The sith is so entrenched in plotting and mulling that he misses it entirely when the useless jedi escapes the dwindling radiance zone of the magma yet again.
Maul doesn't notice until the shivering returns. He hears it start up, and huffs.
“Kenobi~,” he calls, propelling himself closer and calling to the man. The jedi's eyes move under their lids. He is dreaming, far and away, mind disconnected from body. Enough to leave comfort behind, but not so separate that he remains motionless in a safer place.
Ridiculous.
Once again Maul returns his jedi to the place he is meant to be, but this time he pools himself on and around the man. Kenobi sighs in his sleep, melting submissively under the weight of his tail. The sith preens, pleased by this.
He returns to plotting, sometimes idly touching the soft hair of the man's face. Maul finds himself compelled to reach down and pull the jedi's tunics aside, to touch the hair that he knows spreads down his chest… but it seems… Mnh… he will simply wait until Kenobi is awake, and contrive a way to steal his clothing then.
There is no point to clothes down here anyway. They only kept cold, wet things in a state of cold and wet, and that was not what the other man needed to remain hale.
The jedi master shifts in his sleep, like he's trying to move away again, but Maul keeps him pinned. He is allowed to roll in place, but that is all.
All of the sudden Kenobi turns into him, throwing a leg over his hip and snaking an arm around Maul's neck. The sith blinks down at the change. Pale fingers spread out across his chest, smoothing over the nightbrother marks on his right pec.
“Kenobi?” he asks, uncertain. Is he still asleep?
The jedi noses in close, and startles him with a bite on the chin. Maul grabs onto his shoulders, hissing, nipping at his face in return. The other man makes a huff, like the faintest laugh, and bites him again, but it is decently less startling this time, and significantly more... intriguing.
Soft flat teeth get ahold of his chin, bite and pull on the skin, just enough to sting.
Maul's eyes widen. His lips part.
His jaw is released, the trace of pain replaced by a warm tongue.
“Ah,” he says, a bit dazed as fingers start playing gently over the delicate skin of his gills.
This… this is… different. It feels…
Maul reaches for the jedi, tail shifting with pleasant agitation. Hips rock into his, and he moves with them, then presses back. The jedi begins kissing him, down his neck, down his chest. The rocking continues, and the sith notices for the very first time just how the fusion of his new and old forms had resolved the quandary of his cock. He had a length, like a man, that fell from a sheath in his hips, already slick and full.
Maul realizes he is neither like a zabrak nor a dragonfish. He is his own recreation, remade through the darkside into something more.
He laughs, dark and low and oh so pleased, reveling in the jedi grinding himself needfully on Maul's scales. Begging for him with his body.
They roll and Kenobi ends up on top, kissing his skin, mouthing at the tender spots on his chest. Kissing, and kissing, and the sith roils underneath him. Teeth nip and tug at his nipples, creating a sharp pain-pleasure that he hasn't known before.
He holds Kenobi to him, moaning, inviting. Yes yes yes, this was so good. Keeping him, having him…
If he was a king, then perhaps he needed a queen.
Could he remake Kenobi as he had been? Would his tail be pale as his skin, or would the natural tones of a dragonfish paint him black? Would his spots be red? Or ginger like his hair? Blue like his eyes?
Oh. He would be so beautiful.
Those same blue eyes open above him, soft and hazy. Lips run red from their use, pulse quick in his throat. Maul pants, staring up at his jedi with a rising need that ravaged his sanity in it's own wild, freeing way.
They stare at each other, both men struck by their own moment of epiphany.
“Kenobi…” he says, licking his bottom lip, trying to figure out how to ask for more.
More of all of that. He wants to fit them together and-
The jedi yelps, scrambling off and away from him until his back is to the wall.
No! Distance? That would not serve.
“I apologize!” the man swears.
For what, he wonders? This was right.
His eyes drift downward to the jutting proof of it.
The jedi's gaze follows his, widens, and then the man hides from him.
Kenobi clears his throat, face flushed as he presses back into the stone. “That was completely inappropriate, I do apologize. I'm not sure what happened, I was having… ah, pleasant dreams, and then… did you come near me in the night?”
Maul rises on the coils of his tail, and stalks towards his future queen. “I did. You had rolled away from your lava, so I put you back and pinned you down.”
Kenobi retreats as he approaches. Afraid. Yes, the jedi fears what is to come. He does not yet understand that it is good.
It will be so good.
The jedi's hands pat along the floor as he shuffles away.
“Thank you for your consideration then, so sorry for the trouble. Shall we go back to bed? Separately! I mean. You… over there. Me, over here,” the other man rambles, quailing even while he stares at the shine of slickness on Maul's cock. Those blue eyes are riveted to it, his body flushing with need.
He will take such care of his jedi.
Kenobi licks his lips, skittering further away. “Maul…”
The sith smiles, exultant.
“Maul,” the jedi says again, “I just want you to know…”
“Yessss?” he croons, coming ever forward, intractable.
“...that this is not an escape attempt, I am merely in dire need of a bath. Immediately.”
He has no idea what those words mean, until the jedi is dumping himself into the water, giving himself wholesale to the ocean.
The sith laughs wildly, and dives in after. The bubbles clear to reveal Kenobi floating there, treading water with his head and shoulders above the water line. Maul slides through the sea like a knife, under and around, coming up in front of the other man and winding their limbs together again.
“Jediiiii,” he purrs, then steals a proper kiss, mouth to mouth with a thrusting tongue.
Kenobi makes a high pitched whine. It only grows louder when the sith presses close, his tail flowing off between the other man's thighs. They rock, frotting their hips together.
“Mnnnhhh!” one or both of them cry out at the friction.
Maul pulls away to nip at the jedi's chin. “Remove these robes, jedi mine, let me have you. Forgive me my promise not to bite at your neck, and I will suckle marks into your skin, beautiful blooming bruises to complement your lovely eyes.”
“Oh ye gods,” the man whispers dizzily, gripping his shoulders.
“It will so good,” he entices.
Kenobi curls inward, hiding his face in Maul’s neck and stilling the motion of their hips by clenching his legs and core.
“Maul,” he says, like a gasp for air. “No, we… we can't. I can't.”
The dragonfish sith growls softly. No? Why.
“Maul I'm your prisoner, we can't,” the jedi tries to explain, but it doesn't make any sense.
“You want me,” he accuses, frustrated.
Kenobi shudders like the truth is too much to bear.
Maul noses into the side of his neck, and tries to bring him back from this foolishness with kisses. Soft and sweet, as tempting as he can make them.
The jedi's head tilts, just a hair, permission for this much, at least.
Careful of thin hide under his many excellent teeth, the dragonfish sith nibbles his way down the other man's body. He paints the flowers he'd promised into the pale skin beneath the jedi's ear. Gentle, then soothing the ruptures with his tongue.
He slides from neck to chest, biting over the cloth on his way down to stomach, nuzzling the jedi's core where's it's relaxed from his prior tension. Maul finds the jut of him, trapped beneath his pants, and mouths at it under the water. Kenobi's thighs quiver, calves flexing. His fingers dig into Maul's shoulders.
He can taste precum through the cloth as he sucks.
Suddenly the target of his fixation is gone, the body under his hands is further away. The jedi is gone back to the shore, climbing up into the air. Maul scowls and surfaces, only his eyes and horns above the water line as he watches Kenobi retreat.
Sopping wet, the man flops onto his back, chest heaving as he looks over. He remains erect, even still. “You... are a very hard man to say no to.”
The sith swims closer. “And yet,” he snaps through clenched teeth.
to be continued...
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his-littlefox · 9 days
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i’m gonna bake heart shaped chocolate chip cookies for aaron’s birthday he can eat them with a fork and a knifeee!! 🍪💕💕🙈
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absolutebl · 1 year
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BL Second Chance Romances (AKA Reunion)
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BL shows with a getting back together or reconciliation trope? 
Happy ending! 
No cheating/infidelity
I’m partly putting this out to you all because I know there are some from places I don’t track that might qualify.
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This is what I got: 
Just Friends? (Korean short) - sort of, highly recommended 
The Summer Pasta Recipe (Korean short) 
Table Manner (Korean short) 
First Love Again (Korea) - one of them remembers past lives so it’s a reunion for him 
The Yearbook (Thailand) 
On Cloud Nine (Thailand) - I question whether this can be called happy 
Dear Doctor I’m Coming For Your Soul (Thailand) - it’s a reunion for one of them for supernatural reasons 
HIStory Obsessed (Taiwan) - a magical rebirth version of this 
DNA Says Love You (Taiwan - kinda, but it’s an underrated gem of a show
His (the movie) - but not really BL (no tropes) and it’s Japan so... the ending 
The Most Peaceful Place is My Place (Vietnam)
Individual Circumstances (Korea) - DEFINITELY! It’s entirely a second chance romance. It’s not my favorite but it will hit all the buttons. 
Jack o’Frost (Japan) - sort of, but it’s amnesia trope driven 
Our Dating Sim (Korea) - ABSOLUTELY and it’s WONDERFUL 
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2nd Seasons that operate on this trope
Love Sick 2 (Thailand) 
To My Star 2 (Korea) 
We Best Love: Fighting Mr 2nd (Taiwan)
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Short Story Project's Coffee Shop (microfilm Youtube series in the same cafe setting with the same main character) ep 3 installment "ESPRESSO" is a BL. It stars BoyTod from Ghost Host, Ghost House and is a reunion romance. It’s quite cute. 
Coffee Melody’s Christmas special that no one asked for. it’s basically a reunion romance, but mostly just domesticity. It cute but dull.
A case could be made for Triage. I left out all the “pining since childhood” mumbo jumbo since that’s kinda a different trope. 
Updated March 2023, no intention to keep updated. Add a comment if you find a new one. 
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theprayingteacher · 5 months
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#Prayer Against #Negativity
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steelycunt · 1 year
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need to stop writing my shopping lists on my phone and start writing them on bits of scrap paper again for the romance of it all
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escritos-perdidos · 1 year
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gameraboy2 · 9 months
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“Recipes for Romance” Western Hearts #1 (1949) Art by Dan Loprino
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