Every time I google for some cooking advice...

... I lose myself in the wealth of recipes out there, thinking, "damn, I want to cook more often, and more elaborately, than I currently do."

I'd like to try the recipe tantalisingly referred to here (the first one, the one that's only mentioned, not described in detail), and this carrot and ginger soup sounds awesome, too, and there are about a million varieties of quiche I'd like to try (I've never made a quiche yet!), and I'd like to try this lentil and chestnut soup, too, and not just because it's a recipe that Methos seems to be fond of (if only I knew where to get the required frozen chestnuts - I love chestnuts, but I'm not sure you can buy them in that particular form here), and I'd really like to try making this soba dish, which I ate and loved in Cardiff a few years ago - but I don't know where to get (or how to make) dried shallots, and they were rather essential to the combination of tastes that made the dish so great...

I'd also like to try my hand at some ridiculously complicated cakes (basically, stuff with lots and lots and lots of different layers), sometime, but I'm kind of scared of that.

Fic classification issues again:

is a fic in which one character loves another but there is no actual relationship between them, and the fic is in fact sort of about the impossibility of a relationship, gen?