#delayed release

“I get laid.” Lena counters defensively. Wary of trying to outdrink her business partner and best friend, she is on her first g&t still. She grabs the straw now, and gives it a quick stir. She’s stalling. Fidgeting. Because Andrea is — at least partly — right. “Sometimes.” She concedes after a long pause.

There are people she could call. Men and women who slip Lena their number at every gala, every fundraiser she attends. Somewhere inside her house, she has a shoebox full of calling cards.

“How many after Jack? There was that other guy… Hansen?”

“Olsen.” Lena corrects. “Can we please not talk about my sex life?”

James had been nice, if a bit boring. Gentle, but the sex was nothing to write home about. Lena had come; once, weakly — and then faked the other times. In retrospect she ought to have told him, but James isn’t the issue. She had the same problem with Jack, who unlike James read her well enough to stop trying to have sex with her.

It’s just. It’s. Men don’t do it for her, and Lena’s always knows, but years of harsh conditioning by Lillian are difficult to put behind. Even now, talking about it like this with Andrea, she feels shame. Like she failed. Like there’s something wrong with not finding men attractive the way she’s supposed to.

Lena uses her drink to drown the guilt, and downs what’s left of it as Andrea says:

“What you need is a pleasure dom.”

She inhales part of the gin, somehow, and spits the rest into the hand she cups over her mouth at the last second.

“Excuse me, a what?”

It makes a delicious tea (especially when iced), adds a bit of brightness to your flavor profile when cooking meats or poultry, supposedly can help balance facial oils, and when planted outside your home can act as a mosquito repellant (the oil from this plant is one of the major components of citronella candles).

If you want to use it for tea, I recommend getting it already dried, as I find this makes the flavor of the tea stronger. Fresh lemongrass can be used as well, simply finely chop the stalks before boiling (use a serrated knife [lemongrass is very fibrous and can be tough] or run pulse it a little in a food processor).

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Thank you! This is very useful information. I think there’s some lemongrass still growing in the abandoned garden my mother planted in the median in the street outside our old house before she moved across the country. Garden has since gone feral and is mostly a tightly-packed snarl of angry rosemary and lavender but I think I can find the lemongrass if I wade in deep. Good to know about the poultry, I’m always looking for slightly different ways to cook chicken than the three ways I always cook chicken. If you have recs on what herbs it’s best combined with I’d love to hear them.

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