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

Re: Fandom meme

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

How nice to see a fellow Colonel T.J. McQueen fan! I love that character; he was so interesting and complex -- bred to be canon fodder, but rising to be an officer; hard-nosed as they come, yet crying at black-and-white films. I am afraid I have to disagree with you about Shane Vansen, though. The whole silicon-breasted, Botox-lipped part completely passed me by when I watched it (I plead the naiveté of youth!) and I loved that she could be female and a tough-as-nails marine at the same time.

Re: Fandom meme

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

For that part, I loved Damphousse. Additionally, she was technically savvy, too. And I liked Wong just fine as well. I was fairly indifferent towards Nathan and Cooper Hawkes, mady loved McQueen, of course, but I must say, I despised Shane. Especially her warmed-up love affair with whatshisname, the absolutely unlikeable guy.

It's okay to disagree, though. That's what makes fandom-related conversation so interesting.

BTW, there's a great deal of excellent McQueen fanfic out there. I've got an unfinished crossover piece myself, in which he ends up on DS9 at the end of the show, makes the fantastic experience of a better future - and has to be sent back or else that future would be lost.

I really ought to finish that story one day!

Re: Fandom meme

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Damphousse was great! Looking at it now it is quite interesting to notice that the Wild Cards were of quite disparate ethnic backgrounds, and they weren't just token characters either but interesting and with depth.

I did read a bit of S:AAB fanfic at one point but found that it was far too focused on romantic relationships between Vansen and Hawkes/Nathan/McQueen to hold my interest. Maybe I should give it another try, seeing if I can find some good general stories.

Re: McQueen fanfic recs

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Let me suggest you "Moments of Joy", "Literary Giants" and "The Moving Finger Writes" for starters. They're quite long stories, usually centered around McQueen and what being an InVitro meant to him.

"Moments of Joy" is a McQueen/OFC romance, but one of the very few that I can buy without any second thoughts. "Literary Giants" follows Kylee's fate after she's been freed from Chig captivity, and McQueen's, after returning to Earth, a leg shorter.