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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 [livejournal.com profile] 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!

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Date: 2010-10-02 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Green and Black much better for a party than Drazi Green and Purple.

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Date: 2010-10-02 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Ain't *that* the truth! Perhaps the most idiotic aspect of B5 was the Drazi Green and Purple thing. Right after the way they've actually solved the Vorlon/Shadow conflict. Cuz that was mightily stupid.

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Date: 2010-10-02 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
We've played it at conventions, where it's been good fun: every attendee in one team or another, and you can collect points over the weekend for participation, or winning quizzes and so on. But nobody switches sides!

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Date: 2010-10-02 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solanpolarn.livejournal.com
I sometimes feel like a bit of a failure as a geek for not knowing Babylon 5 better. For example I had to actually look up 'Drazi' on Wikipedia... With the information I gained, I definitely agree that Green and Black's are better for a party! But then I am a strong proponent of everything being better with chocolate.

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Date: 2010-10-02 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Could there be any doubt about that? *g*

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Date: 2010-10-03 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solanpolarn.livejournal.com
I do know some poor, poor people who are actually allergic to chocolate in which case I suppose things wouldn't be improved by its addition. Otherwise I have to agree with my boss's husband who uttered at dinner tonight: "There is no such thing as too much chocolate!"

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Date: 2010-10-03 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Very, very true. Not being able to eat chocolate would be a terrible fate. I'm already afraid of the times when I might have to cut down on sweets - or on carbon hydrates entirely - due to health reasons. It happens in advanced age, but it cuts down the quality of life considerably.

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Date: 2010-10-03 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solanpolarn.livejournal.com
This is one of the reasons I am so pleased my tastes have turned to dark chocolate; it isn't as full of sugar as the milky kind. That means you can eat it with less of a bad conscience; the fact that I get a more intense enjoyment out of it than I ever did from run-of-the-mill milk chocolate is the real reason that I (mainly) eat dark chocolate these days, though.

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Date: 2010-10-03 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I'm afraid I'm a die-hard Milka fan. My favourite is Milka Dessert, though - it's milk chocolate, filled with a cream of dark chocolate... yum!

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Date: 2010-10-03 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solanpolarn.livejournal.com
I don't think I have come across Milka Dessert -- it sounds quite tempting! I may have to see if my friend who works for Kraft knows how to get hold of some of them; a quick search of Sainsbury's website (my main supermarket) suggests they don't sell it.
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