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

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Yay, party!!!

And I'm the first to post. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Have a virtual piece of apple pie. I've just pulled it out of the oven, it's all hot and delicious. Mum likes it, too, so it must be really good.

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Yea, Party! Who brings the wine? I am bringing Tea Bowl (that is, bowl with fruits, orange juice and tea, but no alcohol) to drink. :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Party! I am bringing chocolate! Can I have a slice of the apple pie?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Tea Bowl sounds interesting -- do you have an actual recipe? (I don't drink alcohol, mostly because I don't like the taste of it but drinks with fruit in always look enticing.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sure, sure. I've made an entire tin of it. Enjoy!

And yeah, chocolate is good, too!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm all for the Tea Bowl. Who needs wine? I second the request for the Tea Bowl recipe.

[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...

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Here is the recipe:

four soup spoons black tea (or the same amount of tea bags), one liter water, 200 g sugar, one citron, two oranges, a quarter of a liter citron juice, a quarter of a liter orange juice, and 125 g (or more) of either strawberries or peaches, tangerines, pineapple and cherries. In addition, you need soda water (with sparkling).

You brew the tea very strong (five minutes brewing), then mix it with the sugar and let it cooldown. You slice the citron and the oranges and mix it with the juice and the other fruits (which should be cut to pieces). Give the mixture to the cold tea, and add soda water until it has the right taste. The sparkling soda water will also make the bowl more fresh and will give a feeling as if it was made with sparkling wine. :)

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

See below my answer to Wiseheart for the recipe. :)

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Helps herself to a slice of apple pie. ;D

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Sounds excellent, thank you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! I'll have to try it for Silvester night. Since we don't trink alkoholic beverages (aside from beer, that is), I'll need something original.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sure thing, help yourself!

[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. :-)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Do we know if LJ have changed the algorithm for when threads collapse and/or when a new page is started since last year?

[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? ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Haven't got a clue. I only ever produce collapsed threads on my virtual birthday parties, you know. But this is an excellent opportunity to figure out it all.

[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?

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

And belated answer: ICON LOVE!!!!! ;DDD
Is this from Due South? Or is it a photo you made?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It is indeed Diefenbaker from Due South -- I love him! Do I take it you are a fellow fan of the series? Have a Fraser and Canadian consulate icon in the hope.

[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.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I haven't had collapsed threads at all in my LJ so I haven't a clue either. I seem to remember we determined each page would hold 25 first level comments, but I am not sure if we ever worked out what the requirements for the threads collapsing was. I think it may require some proper scientific study! :-)