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

Re: Original BSG

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd have accepted many of the changes if Ron Moore would have made a BSG - The Next Generation, á la Star Trek. He could have given a plause explanation even for the names - around the end of the original series, when the writing began to deteriorate in earnest, they ran into humans who had English- or even German-sounding names. He could have explained that after, say, a hundred years of hopeless odyssey through unknown space, things might have taken a dramatic change.

I could have accepted all that. After all, ST: TNG was quite different from the original Trek, and DS9 even more so. But the raping and gender-bending of beloved characters is something I can't forgive. Because it was a slap into the face of devoted fans who kept the fandom alive for 20 years for him to rape it, and because it wasn't necessary. He could have had his cake and eaten it, without dragging the original characters through felgercarb.

Re: Original BSG

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a very bad remake! It doesn't really seem to make much sense to do that.
There are usually things that could be done to make it better and it often seems that these decisions make very little sense, and then they are surprised when people object.