Lightlark Themed Dinner
As part of our Bad Book Club, we all read the romantasy Lightlark by Alex Aster. As bad books go, it's surprisingly endearing because it's just so... earnest. Bless you, Alex Aster. Is there much thought in the worldbuilding? The characters? The plot? No. Does it all feel like it was slammed out in two weeks based on nothing more than BookTok vibes and a dream? Yes. But at least it's not cynical.
If you've read Lightlark, you may have noticed that Aster has a real tic for describing the sun as a 'yolky thing'. So the centrepiece had to be khachapuri - a Georgian bread with cheese and an egg cracked in the centre - with a roast beetroot salad. The roast beetroot represents [spoilers!] the bloody hearts that Isla Crown is cursed to consume (except [double extra twist spoilers!] not really), while the pomegranate and other bits and pieces in the salad represent the fist sized jewels that grow in her cannibal forest homeland. Great stuff.
