But I follow the recipe!
Recipes are like the Pirate Code. They're guidelines.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
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Jessica - Jan 22, 2005 12:51:35 pm PST #9507 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Jan 22, 2005 12:53:18 pm PST #9508 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also funny -- my mom was putting together a thing of family recipes, and it included both my grandmother's spaghetti sauce and my uncle's, which he said was an adaptation of my grandmother's. They have virtually nothing in common, except cinnamon.
DCJensen - Jan 22, 2005 12:53:27 pm PST #9509 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Recipes are like the Pirate Code. They're guidelines.
What Jessica said. Arr!
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2005 12:55:01 pm PST #9510 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister called me this morning for my bread pudding recipe. She's leaving out the white chocolate. I'm horrified. Not sure if she'll do the water bath either.
Hil R. - Jan 22, 2005 12:57:31 pm PST #9511 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've got my grandmother's recipe for apple fritters, which is, "Peel and slice some apples. Mix with some flour, egg, and sugar. Fry." There may have been one other ingredient -- baking powder, maybe? But it was still just "some" of that. And I know that she put some cinnamon and ginger and a pinch of salt into these when she made them.
Jessica - Jan 22, 2005 12:57:38 pm PST #9512 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm with her on the white chocolate, but the water bath sounds important. Most things that cook in water baths do so for a reason.
DCJensen - Jan 22, 2005 1:01:50 pm PST #9513 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Wow ita, from what it sounds like that's "deviating from the guidelines" a bit much for your pudding. Maybe you should have asked for a statement to be given to any guests that says "Based on a recipe..."
Too bad food seldom has credits.
Or maybe your sister prefers to be gastronomically deviant...
Kalshane - Jan 22, 2005 1:24:16 pm PST #9514 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Plus? I bet your mom slow cooked it. Did you?
I was trying to. Like I said, I left the heat on too high.
Not to mention that the chances of her ever making it exactly as written are slim to none. Family recipes are like that.
Yeah, well I don't have enough experience to deviate from recipes. Following the recipe gives me enough problems.
The Christmas cookies I bake every year following her recipe turn out right, though, so that's something, I guess.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2005 1:32:08 pm PST #9515 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I only started using the water bath a few years ago. Don't think my mother ever did, not that she'd share such details with me. So it will be different, not broken.
But the white chocolate! Lends such a lovely note to the creaminess. I am replete with woe. She doesn't however, have access to fair trade white chocolate, so it's a principle thing, not a gastronomic choice.
Jesse - Jan 22, 2005 1:33:35 pm PST #9516 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, we never did bread pudding in a water bath. For values of "we" that equal "my father."
And I've never minded burnedy bits in the chili, if it's not too too bad.