How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?

Jayne ,'The Message'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Cashmere - Nov 08, 2005 8:07:34 am PST #2188 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.

The Snow Queen.


Nutty - Nov 08, 2005 8:08:03 am PST #2189 of 10006
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I just discovered that I'm making pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. I'm assuming one gets pie crust, gets a can or two of pumpkin pie filling, inserts filling into crust, and bakes.

Crust:
One (1) box Jiffy pie-crust mix.
water.
flat surface and rolling pin.
Pie tin.

Procedure: do what the box says. Since you are making a topless pie, you don't have to worry about making the crust skinny enough to cut in two. Although evenness of the edges can be an issue.

Filling
One (1) can One-Pie Pumpkin Pie filling. Conveniently, this has the recipe printed on the can.
One (1) 12-oz. can sweetened condensed milk.
As much brown sugar, egg, cinnamon, and nutmeg as the can says. Possibly an egg, I forget.

Mix this stuff. Heat the oven. Pour this stuff into the pie shell in its tin. Bake till it is not wiggly in the middle when you poke the tin. Cool.

Whipped cream, just a blop on each slice, is one option; if you are hoity-toity, a cut piece of crust, baked, placed on the middle of the pie is artistic. Don't apply whipped cream till serving time, since pie is not so good at observing distinctions between substances. Ornage pie is good, but creamiscle pie, NSM.


amych - Nov 08, 2005 8:08:15 am PST #2190 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I really don't like the "I voted" stickers because they always feel like I'm being rather sanctimonious and self-congratulatory. But they do save me from being reprimanded by people who are even more so.

We had mayor (likely to be reelected, which is fine because I like the guy), city council (three races, one of which I skipped because I couldn't remember which candidate was which in spite of having actually done the reading), big package of bond issues (about which I was contrarian and didn't vote the same way on all.)


beth b - Nov 08, 2005 8:08:17 am PST #2191 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Jz and Cashmere beat me to it.


shrift - Nov 08, 2005 8:09:07 am PST #2192 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

The Snow Queen.

Edit: I knew that would be a ginormous x-post.


beth b - Nov 08, 2005 8:10:13 am PST #2193 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I really don't like the "I voted" stickers because they always feel like I'm being rather sanctimonious and self-congratulatory. But they do save me from being reprimanded by people who are even more so

I use them to remind people to vote when I am at the library. A lot of what I do only happens if people vote.


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2005 8:11:08 am PST #2194 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ta. For some reason I'm convinced that's my favourite fairy tale, although it feels modern for a fairy tale. I have no substantiation for that.


Jessica - Nov 08, 2005 8:11:40 am PST #2195 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

One (1) can One-Pie Pumpkin Pie filling. Conveniently, this has the recipe printed on the can.

If you're going to be adding other stuff to it, you just want canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.


tommyrot - Nov 08, 2005 8:12:41 am PST #2196 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think my favoite fairy tale is "The Matchstick Girl." I loves me some bleak HCA.


Calli - Nov 08, 2005 8:12:49 am PST #2197 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Don't apply whipped cream till serving time, since pie is not so good at observing distinctions between substances. Ornage pie is good, but creamiscle pie, NSM.

Good to know, thanks! I'll be carting the pie about 90 miles, so odds are mixing would take place. Sort of like those earthquake simulators where the ground liquifies and everything sinks. Only with pie and whipped cream.