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]

My sister and I bonded with my aunt over how badly Jackson treated Faramir in the second film. I understand that there is no way you can fit all of the book into three films, even if they are four hours each, so there were always going to need to be changes and cuts. But that and the Ents was changing the meaning and character of people and events and that I still haven't forgiven!

It seems to me Sturgeon might be considered an optimist... I suppose the trick is to find the good, however many percent.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was the changes that made Faramir so much less noble that annoyed me the most, especially as he is my favourite character. I wouldn't mind so much being left out if there weren't so many silly pointless things added and he had made the battles shorter - I found the battle scene really dragged and seemed to add little to the plot.

Certainly trying to find the good is the way to go. I think no matter the percentage, part of the point is that I feel that fanfic isn't that removed from any other form of fiction in how much is bad - and at least I don't have to pay for it to find out what I like. It is one of the reasons I very rarely go to the cinema - paying that much money to see a film unless I know I am going to like it feels wasteful. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The same here. I usually wait until it comes on TV, tape it, and then fast-forward the boring or annoying parts.

And I agree with you in the Faramir question. I hated what they made of him, and I hated the actor who played him. And don't even let me start on poor Denethor!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I usually watch things while doing other things at the same time - embroidery, computer games, etc. Makes most things more bearable. :)