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 love it! It starts out as a very helpful way of keeping track of what is going on in Lord of the Rings (though I have to stop myself from complaining that it is wrong where it deviates from the books; somehow I keep editing that in my head) and then just gets silly with the 12 Angry Men panel. I have actual had quite serious discussions with friends about how the panel for Primer isn't confused enough... :D

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

It's a wonderfully crazy idea. *g*

In fact the whole website is a hoot - thanks so much for the link!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am always happy to convert more people to xkcd (do I dare hope?) fans! There are occasional strips that I don't understand at all, and I am sure there is usually something I don't fully get in any given strip, but that is just the perfect excuse to go and find out isn't it? More learning! Yay! \o/

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>strips that I don't understand at all<<

Yep, came across quite a few of those - I'm glad it's not just me! ;-)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have a suspicion that Randall Munroe (the artist/author) would be very disappointed if people understood all of his comic strips. He seems quite geeky and like he enjoys making people go in search of more information.

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>he enjoys making people go in search of more information.<<

A day when one learns something new is never wasted.

I've bookmarked the site for future fun reads.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

A day when one learns something new is never wasted.

I do try to keep this in mind when I have frustrating days at work not understanding what is going on...