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

Comment #600 has been posted!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen,

We have hereby reached one of the established goals of this party: to have a minimum of 600 comments. congratulations and my never-ending gratitude for your help.

Now we still have two days to reach the other goal: to get on Page 5. We must not rest on our laurels, or our honour will be besmirched by only partial success. Which will not happen. I know that. We're the best, we can do this.

[artemis10002000]

It is impossible to choose! I might have to take both XD

Re: Original BSG

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a very bad remake! It doesn't really seem to make much sense to do that.
There are usually things that could be done to make it better and it often seems that these decisions make very little sense, and then they are surprised when people object.

Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, there's no hurry, after all. :)

I have a vague idea how to start it - actually, we can steal the idea from the fanfic "Five Things That Never Happened to Gaheris Rhade" and go on from there, with our evil, evil twists.

I remember having read a fairly outrageous smutfic, written from Tyr's POV, in which he was called Hunt Daffa-Dilly. *g*

If we're having the whole Andromeda cast, which Trance would you prefer? The annoyingly perky purple one or the sinister golden one?

Re: B5 hate file

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that Sheridan apparently took the fact that Delenn had been the one who'd ordered the eradication of the human race over a tragic misunderstanding in stride. Was he so besotted, did he think with his dick or didn't he give up the position that being married to Delenn meant to him?

Yes, that made very little sense. I'd have expected him to at least be upset about it, if not more. But by that point his personality seemed to have mostly vanished and seemed to be controlled by her. Possibly when he was brought back from the dead he wasn't the same at all - certainly after that point he seems to mostly be being controlled by other people...

I still prefer the androgynous appearance of the pilot episode, even though it was perhaps less pretty than the first season version. I've read somewhere that the original metamorphosis would have been Delenn changing from an androgynous being into a female one, but with the prettied-up appearance it probably wouldn't have worked. Too bad.
It would have made it much more interesting if they had stuck with that!

Re: B5 hate file

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she certainly had a lot more chemistry with Sinclair than with zombie!Sheridan! Plus, with Sinclair she never behaved like a coquette, which didn't become her at all.

Re: What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We get here stories like Knight Rider (!) or The A-Team, so the age of the show most likely wouldn't count. They just hardly ever bring out the shows I happen to like. :(

Re: B5 hate file

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very true!

Re: Comment #600 has been posted!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yay for reaching more targets and so much fun!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm late! Congratulations on passing 600 comments!

Afraid I haven't baked a cake, but I have got some semi-stale buns that were being sold off cheap from the bakery. Tea?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The pig's head was pretty special.

Re: Comment #600 has been posted!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We are so close! Only 16 more first level comments needed!

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Favourite food? Make that foods (which explains the way I look).

I love: pumpkin soup, ice cream, chocolate, steak with mushrooms, gorgonzola cheese, and most things with cinnamon. Though not necessarily in that order.

Re: What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?

[artemis10002000]

I think until a while ago, re-runs of The A-Team have been running here, too (might even still be running, I don't know.) Mostly, they rerun old sitcoms here.

Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[artemis10002000]

Hunt Daffa-Dilly
*rotfl*

I think perky purple Trance would work better for crack, but golden Trance is cool, too. Eh, I love my Trance either way XD

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Artemis asked about favourite foods. Again this is a hard question to pick just one for! :)
However, going for the obvious choice: chocolate. At the moment my favourite type is Thorntons' Orange And Cardamom chocolate.

Otherwise what I remember as being favourites are mostly fresh fruit and vegetables picked straight from the garden. Bought fruit and veg just can't compare. It is one of the things that I miss about leaving home - no more fresh peas, carrots, parsnips, plums etc. However, while I miss these, it is not enough to make me think that I should grow my own, given how much time and energy it would take.

Re: Favorite food

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Bacon. I'm not supposed to have it but it smells so delicious! On the healthier side, artichokes plain or stuffed, shrimp or any kind of seafood, salads and of course, chocolate.

Re: Comment #600 has been posted!

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Yay, congrats on reaching 600!

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Oooh, fresh from the garden - yum. Sometimes I can get "almost" just picked from the farmer's market but it is not quite the same. Sadly, my thumb is anything but green.

Re: Happy birthday

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Which one? Perhaps we can find a copy over here?

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Jumping from work to say:
Hurrah for breaking the comments record!!!

Now, let us hurry on toward the pages goal, because I, for one, cannot afford to lose what bit of honor I have left after beginning "Awful Mary-Sue." I'll need that last shred of honor so I can lose it when I finish the fic...

Favorite/Favourite food

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

If I have to pick one category, it would probably be good, dark chocolate. Or maybe a cheese lasagna. Or a decadent cinnamon roll with browned-sugar glaze over it.

However, at the moment, the food that that nearly transports me when eating is a "vintage" Dutch gouda. It seems like a decent, slightly salty cheese when I first put a piece in my mouth, but as I chew a bit and it warms on my tongue... suddenly, there is a flood of rich flavor almost like a good butter, but so much darker. The flavor has such a fullness, an almost physical dimension to it that I'm sure someone somewhere must have labeled sinful. I'm squirming in my seat at work just thinking about it...

Besides the exquisite taste, it also offers a bit of fun. It's coated in a black wax that is, in turn, wrapped in heavy paper or cloth that has what looks like an ancient map printed on it. When I realized that the lines were ships' rigging and lines of latitude and longitude, I started peeling off that outer wrapping and collecting the pieces from the wedges. So far, I've been able to piece together 4-5 bits into the larger material from which they were cut, but a lot of the bits are repeats, so I'm not sure there's a whole image to be assembled. The store never has more than a couple wedges in the refrigerated case, so not much selection. Still, it's a fun little game.

Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Me, I prefer Her Purpleness, as Harper calls her. Hey, perhaps we can go along the line of the purple goddess Harper has seen in the All Systems University Library while it was in his head and turn her into some really trashy Deus Ex Machina???

Re: Happy birthday

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's very sweet of you, but since I got the entire series in Hungarian, having one volume in English original wouldn't make all that much sense. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Urgh... pig's head? How do you eat pig's head?