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wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2010-10-07 10:37 pm

Party time ahead!

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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!

Re: I mean, Page 5

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hehehe, thank you! We're not quite there yet, but two or three more first level comments and we might.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it is a Saturday, which means no work, the weather is pleasant, and I've baked the pie and the biscuits in advance, so yeah, it's fine, just fine.:)

Thanks for dropping in!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
You did it indeed! You're the hero of the day! Thanks for visiting, welcome to the party and have some of the pie!

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
This is a horrible thing, this obsession with books, isn't it? All together, I also bought nine books, in three different trips, plus two DVDs, the most recent one being "Kings of the Sun", featuring Yul Brynner. He's one of those rare men who're really attractive without hair.

[identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] kalypso_v beat me to page 5 glory. Happy birthday [livejournal.com profile] wiseheart! Big party.

[identity profile] lissas-elves.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!!!

And congratulations on the 5 pages. We're impressed. :-)

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] the-wild-iris.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I was as obssessed with reading books as I am with buying and cataloguing them :)

[identity profile] the-wild-iris.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday on page 5!

Dare I hope the parcel from Amazon has arrived? Apologies if it's too late for the big day.
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yummy. With cheese, I hope. When I was a child, I was taught:

"Apple pie without the cheese
Is like a kiss without the squeeze."

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Victory! An impressive number of pages and comments. I'll take a piece of apple pie on it.

[identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
Toot toot! Have a wonderful birthday! (Mmmm, apple pie...)
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Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-10-09 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, that sounds fun!

Sorry, not very eloquent today, the flu has me fully in its grasp
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[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-10-09 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Page 5, alas! *happy dance*

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's a funny verse! Well, we usually don't eat cheese to apple pie, but we do have some in the fridge, so be my guest. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. A big party indeed, and with many interesting conversations aside from the fun. The best kind, methinks.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet, but that's not so bad. This way, I still have something to look forward to, despite having bought half a library as a birthday present for myself. *g*

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Be my guest! Have some Ischler biscuits, too!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Virtual pie is good - no calories. Thanks for dropping in. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Alas? *is confused* It's a good thing, you know!

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
I know the feeling. At least you're waaay afore me... I don't even catalogue them!
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[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-10-09 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that was supposed to be "at last"

My brain doesn't work well today :D

Re: 3 favorite fandoms meme

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Boromir rocks. And so does Tyr Anasazi. Totally agree with you on the Dylan Hunt hate.

Merry and Pippin are actually responsible adults in The Books. At least Merry is, as Pippin isn't of age yet. But not even he is such an idiot comic relief as in the movies.

Re: Andromeda fanfic
Well, aside from the obvious (tries to look modest and fails miserably), I would recommend you The Recreation of the Warrior (http://www.anzwers.org/free/andromeda/fanfic/Mandyfic/warrior1.html) by Kit Mason. It's a great fic, with lots of Nietzschean cultural background, I think you'll like it.

The gratutious het scenes get a little boring sometimes, but you can always skip them. I also recommend browsing the website it's posted to, "Andromeda Uncovered". There are some interesting stories there, although no other that would be half this good,IMO.

Forget to add: Where men named Rhade are concerned, I vastly prever the original, Gaheris. Steve Bacic is a decent enough actor, I've seen it in many different roles - not an overwhelmingly genial one, but good, solid average. Rhade as a character would have needed a concept to begin with - I don't think the writers really knew what they wanted to do with him.
Edited 2010-10-09 12:44 (UTC)

[identity profile] lindahoyland.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Wishing you a very happy birthday!
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[personal profile] muninnhuginn 2010-10-09 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Re: Cadfael fic

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Check out the original entry again. I've linked the new chapter to it. Enjoy!

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