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]

Excellent! :-) Apple pie straight from the oven is delicious.

I actually have quite a lot of chocolate on my kitchen table at the moment. A friend of mine who works for Kraft, and therefore can buy cheap Kraft company products, brought it when we went to see 'Henry IV, part 1' at the Globe two week-ends ago. There is still a bag of Cadbury's Roses chocolates and some mini Green & Black's bars for example. I might have to go and tidy up a bit...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

How very responsible of you! IIRC, Green and Black was your suggestion for more chocolate-named cardinals for the Minbari Sue, right?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Well remembered! Green & Black do some truly wonderful chocolates, so most of that got eaten on the first night my friend was here but there is still some left even after a bit of tidying up. :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Cute Hawkes icon! So, if Sheldon is Black (although I guess it isn't politically correct to say that anymore), who's Green then? ;)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I was suggesting Narns from Babylon 5 where green-tinged in a discussion with a friend a few days ago, being puzzled by him referring to them as the Arabs of B5. After some consideration we decided I probably thought this because G'Kar had been badly beaten in the episode I had seen/was thinking of; I haven't seen that many because I find the series quite depressing with a dystopic view of the future. All of that is to say that perhaps we can have a Narn for "Green", as a bit of an inside joke?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Interesting. People usually fall over in excitement about B5, raving about how much better it's supposed to be than Star Trek. Well, it's an interesting series for sure, but *nothing* is better than Star Trek, not for me. Speaking of pre-Voyager Trek, of course. And don't even let me start about "Enterprise"...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Anything that isn't proud enough of Star Trek to want to carry then title -- yes Enterprise I mean you! -- doesn't deserve it! I know they did put it in, for later series but that only seemed to be because they thought that would bring the old fans in that they didn't mind offending when they thought they could spiff it up for a new generation spitting on the established canon. I really hated what they did with it, setting the Vulcans up to be stuck-up, non-logical idiots and basically changing all of the established history even before we start in on the horror that was Captain Archer! I disapprove of the latest Star Trek film on the same principle, even if that actually might have been a decent film if it had been made as a stand alone in some other universe. I apparently don't have any Star Trek icons, so I will use my image from space one instead.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Feel free to steal my Federation icon. I've snatched it from somewhere myself - don't even know where from.

I agree with everything you wrote about "Enterprise". I think the only loveable character was Archer's dog, and I hate dogs with a passion, as a rule.

Actually, the canon rape already started with "Voyager", where Bermaga made the Borg to ridiculous wimps and allowed Janeway to say things like both Kirk and Sulu would be thrown out of Starfleet in their oh-so-advanced days. *grinds teeth*

Strangely enough, I hated the latest Star Trek film a lot less than I'd expected to do. Sure, I didn't actually like it, it was a lame plot with lots of canon rape, but at least some of the actors were great. Zachary Quinto for example.

On the same principle, though, I've adamantly refused to give the "reimagined" BSG a rat's chance. That was the worst slap into the face of old fans of a series, ever!

[maglors-finch.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. Long live Star Trek!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Nothing can beat Star Trek. Nothing!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Spock, of course!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I imagine he and Sheldon would get along quite well, both being dedicated scientists. And I think the green being on the inside is in keeping with the chocolate connection. After all, the chocolate isn't literally green. :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That, Captain, is a logical assumption - quite surprising, coming from a human. Congratulations. *g*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do my best to apply logic in my assumptions -- it can lead to such delightfully unexpected thoughts and conclusions. :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Green and Black much better for a party than Drazi Green and Purple.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ain't *that* the truth! Perhaps the most idiotic aspect of B5 was the Drazi Green and Purple thing. Right after the way they've actually solved the Vorlon/Shadow conflict. Cuz that was mightily stupid.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We've played it at conventions, where it's been good fun: every attendee in one team or another, and you can collect points over the weekend for participation, or winning quizzes and so on. But nobody switches sides!

[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]

Could there be any doubt about that? *g*

[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]

Very, very true. Not being able to eat chocolate would be a terrible fate. I'm already afraid of the times when I might have to cut down on sweets - or on carbon hydrates entirely - due to health reasons. It happens in advanced age, but it cuts down the quality of life considerably.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Cadbury Roses? Green & Black's makes mini's now? I swoon...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually opened the bag of Roses yet, J brought that much chocolate. Needless to say he is very welcome any time! ;-) And yes, Green & Black's do a 12 mini bar collection. Very nice indeed!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That mini bar collection looks yummy!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It is indeed fantastic! And while I mainly like dark chocolate these days, Green & Black's milk chocolate is actually very good, too. This may have something to do with the fact that it contains >30% cocoa solids, which is actually in the same vicinity as some of the lower quality 'dark' chocolate that you can buy.