Party time ahead!

[wiseheart]

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.


400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.



Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

Comments

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

The pie should be very warm; it's the contrast in temperatures as much as the flavor which makes the combination of pie and ice cream so pleasant. Apple pie is good with cheddar cheese, too (although that's a less common combination here).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

But where is the story? *is confused*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh. Like the Ossianic poems, then?

[sharp-glance.livejournal.com]

No doubt your lowly work is the source of your confusion. No elfling would have fought in the Nirnaeth, as I did.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Go you! At least the number record we have a serious chance to break.

Re: Entertaining guests

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It doesn't compensate for the damaged hearing, though.

The Greeks were awesome indeed. But again, they're a people who aren't afraid of trying out new things, as long as they seem fun.

[artemis10002000]

Ah! Now I get it *sheepish grin* I thought you meant the link for the picture.

Story is here http://artemis10002000.livejournal.com/237396.html While it's short, it's a bit too long to post here. It's Transformers, though. I need to rediscover my muses for the fandoms we share *pokes muses*

Re: Entertaining guests

[artemis10002000]

I hope your ears will have recovered by tomorrow!

[artemis10002000]

*cheers*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, keep poking them! Doing a shared project would be fun.

Re: Entertaining guests

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yay, Rhade! *hugs Rhade* We really should write something Nietzschean together. Like Ty/Rhade smut... erm, I meant beautiful Niet eroticism, of course!

Tomorrow, I'll only have one lesson, so God will, so there's hope. Unless a collegaue falls ill or my boss gets creative.

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, it would!

Fickle muses, it seems like Transformers is all the fanfic I can manage anymore. Ah well, it's a start, after I hadn't written fanfic at all in years!

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Even more fake. MacPherson at least used some genuine Scots-Gaelic songs to distort and expand. The OLB is a hoax from the beginning until the end.

Re: Entertaining guests

[artemis10002000]

Tyr! *tackles Tyr*

*giggles and nods* Yeah, it wouldn't be about the smut at all, it would be about worshipping the perfection of the Nietzscheans and uh... yeah, pointing out how superior they are *grins and polishes her halo*

Good luck tomorrow, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

Pathways vampire AU

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps two or three chapters. I only have to write this last part of the series, kill off Justin - preferably in a gory way - and wrap up a few loose ends. The series would continue in "Pittsburgh by Night", eventually, with Brian returning to the Pitts half a century later, to become the Prince of the city.

But you're actually right, the Pathways universe is incredibly complicated, with multiple storylines, and eating up new fandoms as I go. Beside the obvious (vampire) ones, it has eaten "Criminal Minds", "QAF", "Poltergeist: The Legacy", to only mention the biggest ones.

Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am flying off to Sweden for a long week-end to visit my family tomorrow. So tonight I have 'checked-in' to my flight, i.e. chosen my seat and printed my boarding pass. I should now be packing my bag, but at the moment I can't work up the energy for it. There is also the fact that though I am not going to work tomorrow, my flight isn't until 13.50. Since the trip to the airport only takes about 50 minutes, I don't need to pack tonight; I could get up and do it tomorrow morning, but I think it would be a good idea to do it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So, you were a child soldier? Poor wibble Mole! *patpat* That certainly explains your damaged personality. Here, have a teddy bear! Bet you never had one when you were little.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Over here, we don't eat our apple pie hot. Definitely should try your version.

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Better safe than sorry. I'm sending Ianto over to help you packing. He's nothing if not efficient... and not easily embarrassed. *g*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have been thinking quite a lot about him recently because a few friends and I have booked a long week-end trip to North Yorkshire where he used to live. He moved away to be closer to my uncle and aunt when he found he could no longer manage his house and so I haven't been there for over a decade. Going back is bringing up memories, especially since we are going for a walking holiday and walking was a favourite past-time of his.

What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Any fans out there? Favourite/least favourite characters? Moments/episodes you won't forget?

Me, I love Derek, although his forced love affairs with much younger women don't seem very convincing. Not even the ones with the not-so-young ones, in fact. I don't know why.

Absolutely love Father Philip Callaghan and Alex. I'm fairly indifferent about Nick Boyle.

Hate Rachel, who just never seems to get the actual point about the Legacy and what they're doing and why it's necessary. I also hate her oh-so-special daughter, that annoying little git with the Awesome Powers (baby-Sue much?)

The St. Antonius episode with the old Coptic nun. The one with the vampires where Alex almost becomes turned.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I only ever knew my maternal grandfather because my paternal one died before I was born. Still the one I had was so wonderful I have never felt I missed out. I find I miss Grandpa the most when things go well in my life, and I would like to tell him about it. It always made him so happy to hear of our successes! I wish he could have been there for my Ph.D. defence, because he would have loved the academic pomp and ceremony and seeing one of his granddaughters be part of that great learned tradition. Still he knew I started it and there would have been no doubt in his mind I would finish and he will forever be a part of it because I dedicated my Ph.D. thesis to him.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Is it at least entertaining?

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Help greatly appreciated. Can he do my laundry while I am away? *g*

Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We could write a deliberate crackfic about Tyr and the resurrected Gaheris, full of purple prosa, loving descriptions of the masculine beauty of our protagonists and mutual boasting from the guys' side to impress - and intimidate - each other.

We could write it as a roleplay on . Or as a Round Robin. I could set up the basics and we could write the stuff as inspiration hits, in the form of comments within a single entry. ;)