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]

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.)

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

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

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Sounds excellent, thank you!

[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.

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Yep, I loved the series until Vecchio got replaced. I fear I lost interest after that. But Diefenbaker is one of my favorites in the whole series, especially for the fact that he is supposed to be deaf - but seems to have excellent hearing (or other compensation skills) if there is anything in it for him.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked the Vecchio replacement, and I thought the way they did it was quite good and original. Have you seen the final episode? I really liked how they tied the series up...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

A wolf with a selective hearing? Or not-hearing, as the case might be? What's there *not* ti love?

It's interesting how these animal characters in TV-series are always a lot smarter than their human masters, though. Is it because they're so intelligent or because the human characters are so dumb?

Are you familiar with the Austrian/German series "Kommissar Rex"? That's an excellent proof for the above theory.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have indeed seen some of Kommissar Rex. I started watching it to get to hear some German -- there are sadly very few opportunities to do this in Sweden -- what with wanting to improve mine, but continued because I liked the show. They only showed one series, that I can remember, though they may have done the classic thing of shifting it to a very different time slot and not telling anyone and then deciding to stop because it wasn't getting any viewers. I seem to remember it was the police man that had diminished hearing in that, is that correct?

I have a social outing with my group from work, going for a walk on Hampstead Heath and then to my boss's house for a BBQ, that I need to leave for now. I will try and respond to the other comments when I get back. We need to get more threads collapsing and move on to the next page, after all!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

small>Indeed!!!

As for the Rex detectives, no they didn't have diminished hearing - they just had diminished brainpowers, sometimes. That's why the dog always managed to eat the Wurstsemmel before them.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I must be thinking of some other show with a police dog, because I remember somebody telling the dog he couldn't hear on one ear so he needed the dog to cover for that. Another example of your theory about the animals being cleverer than the humans on TV shows. I suppose it goes back all the way to Lassie and Flipper.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I thought Flipper was a dolphin?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Flipper is indeed a dolphin, but that still makes him an animal, right? I may have misunderstood you but I thought you were referring to animals in general being cleverer than their human co-stars and not just canines.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, that's right. I just got too fixated on Rex.