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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't the price in itself but the fact that you can't get them in Hungary. So if I want me some decent sci-fi, I have to go to Vienna, which I can do twice a year (it isn't a cheap trip), tops, and then they either have them or not, as I rarely stay any longer than three days (again, hotel prices). So I was lucky to get the whole Stargate and Stargate: Atlantis series, some Dr. Who and lots of solo movies, but, sadly practically no Star Trek. It's unfair! The English videothek through which I used to order the tapes closed years ago, so I'm totally helpless.

The animated series, just like the original one, is extemely uneven in quality. There are wonderful episodes, like "Yesteryear", showing scenes from Spock's childhood, and downright silly ones. Insultingly so. Still, a true collector won't he kept from getting them all. ;)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have very rarely seen any Star Trek DVD boxes in shops here either. Indeed all of mine where bought through on-line retailers such as Amazon, or in the case of the last few DS9 boxes, eBay. I had the first four seasons in the hard plastic boxes they came out in originally, and then I didn't buy the rest straight away because I hadn't had the time to watch the ones I already had. When I wanted to buy the fifth season, I found that Paramount had started selling them in a new 'slim line' packaging, made of cardboard that looked very different to the ones I already had. The first few seasons are still reasonably easy to get hold of on-line in the original packaging, but the later ones seem very rare. Since I really liked the look of the hard plastic boxes and I wanted all of DS9 in the same type of packaging I had to buy the last few seasons second-hand.

Do I understand correctly that online retailers like Amazon don't deliver to Hungary? That must be very frustrating!

I expect there to be some really horrible episodes of the animated series; as you say there were certainly a few of those in the original series as well (and TNG if we are honest!). Still dedicated collector/fan wants to find out for herself...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

*Do I understand correctly that online retailers like Amazon don't deliver to Hungary? That must be very frustrating!*

Oh, they do deliver, if it's ordered from somewhere else. They just don't accept our national currency. And yeah, it *is* furstrating. I'd be more than willing to pay. but they won't let me.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Oh that is even more frustrating! It sounds a bit like the stupid region system for DVDs where I sometimes find that I can't get what I want on DVDs that my player can read, just because they have decided to encode it differently. It especially upsets me because this is something the film/TV companies have just invented to make it harder for people to buy their product! And then they complain when people download stuff from the internet...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Some US series (like Earth: Final Conflict) only partially come out in my regional coding, so I can never complete my collection. Idiots!

As for Amazon, I think the reason is that our national currency is so horribly weak it would cause them financial losses if they accepted it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It is annoying, both the delays between things coming out in different regions and the fact that somethings appear to never be coming out on region 2 - especially Defying Gravity which was on tv here last year and which I would love to get on dvd, but there is on sign that it will ever come out here.

I don't know if you use Paypal, but if you do http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ delivers books to Hungary (and all deliveries are free) and I think the prices are relatively similar to amazon. I know it doesn't help with dvds, though.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't know PayPal... well, I know that something like that does exist, but that's about all. The problem is, I don't dare to set up anything virtual without the help of someone who knows their way about it and looks over my shoulder for the fist few times. I came to this Internet business at a fairly advanced age and am still scared witless whenever I stumble over something I haven't seen before. I've never bought anything online in my life!

I know, sounds like the age of the dinosaurs...

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I don't know how simple it is to set up - I don't have an account of my own (as Sam had one already). I understand how buying online would be scary - I remember being very nervous about it when I first started getting things and wondering if I would actually receive the things etc, but mostly it works.