My mom's here right now, falling asleep on my couch even though I told her to go to bed. She came in on Friday for her 50th class reunion, and is flying back on Tuesday morning, so she dropped her rental car off at O'Hare tonight and I picked her up for the next 1 1/2 days. Just long enough for some shopping and a manicure, and possibly a movie.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Kathy A - Oct 21, 2007 5:37:44 pm PDT #7852 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Nutty - Oct 21, 2007 5:39:42 pm PDT #7853 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
anybody want to post a recipe for the pie crust?
2 C flour
12-16 oz fat*
1 T sugar
1 T corn meal
pinch salt
1/4 C ice water
Assemble all but that last in the Cuisinart and mix dustily. Pour in ice water and hold down the mixy button till it all suddenly coheres into a ball. Split the ball in two, wrap each in Saran Wrap, and allow to rest no less than 1/2 hour. (You can freeze them nicely.) Unwrap, roll, and make pie.
(Baking us usually 10 minutes at 425, turn down immediately to 350, bake till the fruit is cooked, which for apples is another 3o minutes.)
* The fat content is where the foofaraw is, for me. I vacillate between all-butter (just shy of 2 sticks), which is harder to work but tastes so awesome, and 75% butter, 25% Crisco, which is much easier to work. I never go below 50% butterfat content, and lately I've taken to using unsalted butter, and frozen it before using. That's yielded my best results so far.
I have never tried a lard or leaf-lard crust, although this winter I am planning on it.
Glamcookie - Oct 21, 2007 5:49:35 pm PDT #7854 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Corwood, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Vortex - Oct 21, 2007 5:50:09 pm PDT #7855 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
wait, didn't the CI recipe have vodka?
Trudy Booth - Oct 21, 2007 5:51:01 pm PDT #7856 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
When am I going to shake my Brothers & Sisters addiction?
I am clearly in an abusive relationship.
Nutty - Oct 21, 2007 5:52:55 pm PDT #7857 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
wait, didn't the CI recipe have vodka?
I don't know the CI recipe. That's my recipe, that I learned (and adapted) from a caterer named Ariadne Clifton.
sumi - Oct 21, 2007 6:12:51 pm PDT #7858 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Cor, I'm so sorry for your loss.
DavidS - Oct 21, 2007 6:23:10 pm PDT #7859 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's a major clusterfuck with the computers at work. I'll have to go into work later tonight.
No fair! You didn't even fuck 'em up.
DavidS - Oct 21, 2007 6:24:42 pm PDT #7860 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tense game at Fenway.
Still Papelbon is throwing pure gas.
Lugo's off the hook, and the Indians third-base coach is probably off the hook, though Cleveland will gnash its teeth about it for the next fifteen years.
SuziQ - Oct 21, 2007 6:30:36 pm PDT #7861 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Go Rockies.