Getting to a point with pie pastry that you know how it should turn out after baking is a bit of an adventure. This recipe sounds like you'd have to toss all those reflexes out, because it probably feels like a failure.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
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.
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2007 5:23:22 am PDT #7894 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sue - Oct 22, 2007 5:27:10 am PDT #7895 of 10001
hip deep in pie
This recipe sounds like you'd have to toss all those reflexes out, because it probably feels like a failure.
It totally does. I was sure that it was going to come out as hard and crisp as a cookie. I still wonder if it would have turned out differently if I had weighed the flour. Also, from the recipe, it didn't seem like it should that wet and sticky, but I was loathe to add too much more flour, lest it come out heavy as a brick.
Jesse - Oct 22, 2007 5:27:58 am PDT #7896 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kind of like the no-knead bread? It's hard to believe that the pile of slop you end up with will turn into an awesome loaf of bread.
Kat - Oct 22, 2007 5:29:41 am PDT #7897 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Listening to you all talk about stuff, like bread and pie crusts, maybe I should bake today even though it is going to be hot?
sumi - Oct 22, 2007 5:31:39 am PDT #7898 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Minion, the Boston Terrier/Bulldog cross - extra cute, comes with stripes.
Yesterday, my friend S and I dropped some stuff off at the airline hangar that's being used to house some of the couple hundred critters rescued from a local "collector."
One of the closer crates had two bulldogs who when we first got there were lying with their heads right next to each other. . . so cute. The crate next to them housed a husky. After we'd been there for a bit - the bulldogs fell asleep and as the snoring started you would have laughed and laughed at the expression of annoyance that crossed the face of the husky. Clearly, he was thinking, "No! Not more snoring. Next time I'm going to have to request a non-snoring wing."
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2007 5:31:54 am PDT #7899 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesus, I've been living in a little bubble. Didn't know about the fires until I read here. Scary stuff.
Emily - Oct 22, 2007 5:37:31 am PDT #7900 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I attempted to bake yesterday! Found a recipe for a toaster-oven apple crumble. I think it turned out ridiculously -- bunch of slightly rubbery apple slices with flour-brown-sugar mixture on top, warmed over -- but my father actually seems to have liked it, and once we piled ice cream over it it was fine anyway.
Kat - Oct 22, 2007 5:38:35 am PDT #7901 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The fires are fucking scary. Randomly, they've spent 3 days reseeding Griffith Park by helicopter.
Jesse - Oct 22, 2007 5:38:37 am PDT #7902 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I tried to resist, but cannot: "Tartlet. Tartlet. The word has lost all meaning."
brenda m - Oct 22, 2007 5:42:02 am PDT #7903 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Mmm, pie. The person who's hosting our Thanksgiving extravaganza is known far and wide for her pies. Her crusts are out of this world.