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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!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
This comment, I am quite sure, makes one hundred.

Go us!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
And the occasional passing Time Lord.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Very tasty! *chomp chomp*

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. We know from Ianto that he always cheats, don't we?

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Added the recipe to the original post, in case [livejournal.com profile] mraltariel feels like experimenting. ;)

(Anonymous) 2010-10-02 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Apple pie for the win!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Speaking of which, I really need a Tosh/Nine icon for Travellers' Tales. I don't think there are any, though, and I'm tragically lacking any web skills.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, we're at 108 already. Go us indeed!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Coffee icon! Erm... yes. Anyway, I'm not active on Dreamwidth at all. I only use it to archive my journal, just in case. But I'll add you, too, and take a look.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Denise! It's good to hear from you again - we haven't talked for Ages! Of course, it's my fault, not having written Tolkienfic for Ages, not since I've finished "Web of Darkness"...

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Larissa sends her love back; Valerie isn't here, but I'm sure she'd want to do the same.

Looking forward to your comments.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Procrastinating is fun indeed. You're so much more free than after you've started the actual writing!

I do hate the Byron stuff with a passion, too. Lochley wouldn't be all that bad, had she been played by an actress with some more acting talent. But again, after Ivanova who was a cold fish, she's at least different. I'm sorry, but I really really can't stand Ivanova. Of course, the only B5 characters I truly liked were Neroon, Londo, Garibaldi and Lennier, so I'm probably not the right person to listen to. *g*

But we can watch the Season 5 episodes in any order you want. We can give us, say, a week for each episode (as I'm most likely to watch anything on the weekend, work being what it is at the moment) and then discuss it.

I tried really hard to get into "Firefly" but never really managed it. As much as I like Nathan Fillion in "Castle", he annoyed me to death in "Firefly". And some of the episode plots were downright idiotic.

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
My other identity wants to contribute as well. Happy comments week!

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hear, hear. Long live Star Trek!

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Let's go for it.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I certainly hope so!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. :)

I really should upload more icons - I've downloaded quite a few, but never got around to uploading more on lj... and they are on the other computer, so I can't use doing so to procrastinate for the moment. Actually I seem to be doing well at getting things done - my inbox for my voluntary work email is now empty (until people reply to the messages I've sent out) and I'm now onto sorting out documents. All of this efficiency because I'm hoping to stop the role in February and so want everything organised to hand over before then. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing can beat Star Trek. Nothing!

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
More Star Trek?

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, thanks! They're such lovely girls!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Now all we have to wait for Maeglin to show up to exchange insults... *g*

Is the Gondolin RPG still going on, by the way?

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
:) *is happy*

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh... I was never part of the Gondolin RPG. My favourite place in Beleriand has always been Nargothrond.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Now I'm confused. I thought you played Maeglin???

[identity profile] maglors-finch.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
No - isn't it Ithilwen who plays him?

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