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

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I sometimes feel like a bit of a failure as a geek for not knowing Babylon 5 better. For example I had to actually look up 'Drazi' on Wikipedia... With the information I gained, I definitely agree that Green and Black's are better for a party! But then I am a strong proponent of everything being better with chocolate.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Your word in God's ear!

Do you know the fan-made Phase II (http://www.startrekphase2.de/en/phase_ii.html) series? It's very interesting and in places excellent. Well worth a try.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

With the right books I am sure we can conquer anything (given enough time)!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should try and get Data on the subject as well? ;-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Could there be any doubt about that? *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I thought Flipper was a dolphin?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Checking out your like I realize that I had heard of it, back while they were still producing the first episode. However, I have never actually watched any of it so thank you for the recommendation. Have added it to my bookmarks -- now I just need to find the time to actually watch it! That might be awhile, because I have recently purchased the last season of DS9 and have still got half of season six unwatched. I have to be careful with watching Star Trek on DVD, because I often find I can't just watch the one episode when I pop a DVD into my player. Instead I usually end up watching all four on that disc, which means I can rarely do it on a week-night without getting to bed far too late.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

If Ron Moore would have the balls to come up with his own series, I'd have watched it faithfully, just because he'd used to be a Trek exec. If he'd done something like BSG - the Next Generation, I'd have done the same. But as a devoted fan of the classic series, I was deeply offended by what he'd done to the BSG universe.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I do know some poor, poor people who are actually allergic to chocolate in which case I suppose things wouldn't be improved by its addition. Otherwise I have to agree with my boss's husband who uttered at dinner tonight: "There is no such thing as too much chocolate!"

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I only saw Blood and Fire 1 on YouTube, but I liked it a great deal. James Crawley makes such a funny Kirk imitation, and the Spock actor is simply hilarious.

And yeah, DVDs are addictive...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Flipper is indeed a dolphin, but that still makes him an animal, right? I may have misunderstood you but I thought you were referring to animals in general being cleverer than their human co-stars and not just canines.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It seems nobody (or very few people at least) has the guts to make something completely original. Yet they often can't be bothered to take into account the established history of what ever universe they want to set their stories in. Given that they are choosing that universe to have a ready-made fan-base that is plain stupid. How can they not see that anyone who is dedicated enough to a series/concept to watch something just because it carries the same brand name is also likely to know and care about the established canon?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

DVDs are addictive...
and Star Trek DVDs doubly so! If they weren't so good, it would be easier to turn them off. Somehow that doesn't sound like the way forward, though.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

LJ really needs a better way of keeping track of the different levels of comments; scrolling from bottom to top I counted 22 first level comments (before this one) but scrolling back from top to bottom I counted 24. I wonder which is correct?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, that's right. I just got too fixated on Rex.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

No, counting again I think this is first level comment 25. I am going to test our hypothesis by posting another one, which should be first level comment (FLC) number 26. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientist you need to invent a few three letter acronyms to litter your writings with.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

This should be FLC-26 and if the theory is correct it should start a new page... Oh, the suspense!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

The pastry "ribbons" are also used for the classic American apple pie. They are usually cut with a pie jag -- a small, toothed wheel at the end of a handle -- a laid in an open, woven pattern across the top of the pie, with the ends pinched into the crimped outer crust. Pretty... and tasty. And now I'm hungry again: someone pass Wiseheart's pie, please?

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Mac is currently "partying" with his rubber bone. No chocolate for him (Very Bad for dogs!), but perhaps someone would slip him a bit of cheese or a crust from Wiseheart's pie?

[third-charm.livejournal.com]

Ah, my friend, you know that Season 5 and I are not friends. Between Ivanova leaving, Marcus staying frozen, Lochley and Byron being added, the turning of a bad ass 'Star Killer" who scared entire Mionbari Warrior Clans out of their minds, blew Zha'Ha"Dum to Kingdom Come single-handedly, told both the the Vorlons and the Shadows to get the fuck out of his galaxy, withstood torture and saved Earth from Clark into "wounded arm candy" for Delenn, and the way the rest of the B5 old crowd emotionally and spiritually shafted Garibaldi, well, it was an exercise in masochism on my part in the fact that I actually watched every damned episode.

As for Firefly, I was impressed with the scope of what the show was trying to do, but the execution left much to be desired in certain episodes. It was as if the production company gutted entire plot lines just to save a few bucks in production costs - and it showed. God how I have it when a great story idea gets neutered becausse of either costs or political correctness!

Third Charm

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

You were right - a new page it is. Hooray for science! :-)

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Good morning.

Doing good so far: on page 2 already and 170 comments - that's not bad.

It's a real autumn day here today: rainy, windy, leaves all over the place. In other words, a good day for staying indoors with my computer and a mug of tea. :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, as the Torchwood disaster (CoE and the plannet Gwenwood series) shows, some execs simply hate their fans if they don't like the same thing. Russell T Davies practically killed off everyone but Gwen (and Jack, but him he destroyed morally), so that the old fans won't have anyone else to watch. Plus, he always emphasizes that he wants new viewers who don't know sh*it about the series.

Also, just like RTD, many people simply shoehorn their own ideas into an established fandom, in the hope that the name will lure in viewers... and then have new viewers, "unburdened" by canon, like the new series. They won't mind that it has nothing to do with the roots, as they don't know them.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not. But that's the way with addictions, right?

I have Star Trek, The Animated Series, TNG, DS9 and a great part of Voyager on videotape, as at the times I bought them there were no DVDs. Now I'm seriously worried that they die on me one day, but buying the whole thing (plus B5 and Crusade) on DVD again would be a bit expensive.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Despite what humans might think, logic and imagination aren't polar opposites. They are the two sides of the same coin. That's why I get annoyed whenever I see hare-brained plotlines in TV-series... or read them in fanfic.