I was going to suggest cranberries too.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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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.
Lee - Nov 23, 2008 1:02:05 pm PST #2987 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
brenda m - Nov 23, 2008 1:02:43 pm PST #2988 of 10002
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
I'm not sure I can see either of those in apple pie, to be honest. The cherries would have the edge over the strawberries, I think, since I'm not sure how they would hold up. Maybe whole they would work though.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2008 1:05:12 pm PST #2989 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wish I were roasting something!
Barb - Nov 23, 2008 1:05:34 pm PST #2990 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Echoing everyone else-- the maraschinos and strawberries are both... wrong, for lack of a better term. With apple pie I'm all for giving it some bite to counter the sweetness, so the cranberries sound like a nice touch, plus would add some color.
lisah - Nov 23, 2008 1:06:14 pm PST #2991 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I was going to suggest cranberries too.
Fresh or dried!
I'm making my usual apple sauce like thing for thanksgiving dinner. Variety of apples cooked until desired softness w/ sparkling cider and some lemon juice and dried cranberries. Delicious and SUPER easy!
SailAweigh - Nov 23, 2008 1:07:30 pm PST #2992 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I've done an apple/cranberry combo and it works really well. Also, a pear/ginger pie is good at Thanksgiving, too.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2008 1:10:01 pm PST #2993 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kristen's RM, that sounds delicious! You still owe me a text, by the way, lady.
Barb - Nov 23, 2008 1:11:33 pm PST #2994 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
A fun thing to do would be to reconstitute dried cranberries in Calvados.
DavidS - Nov 23, 2008 1:15:55 pm PST #2995 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You can freeze the strawberries without any loss in flavor. Or you could macerate them with some liqueur to have them keep and give it a little extra kick.
Narrator - Nov 23, 2008 1:17:40 pm PST #2996 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Chicagoistas question: What kind of neighborhood is Dunbar Park in? And what would that neighborhood have been like in the early 1900s? (I found some family history documents that put some relatives of mine living in that neighborhood then. Specifically, they lived on Prairie Avenue around 30th Street, which seems like the block that was razed to create Dunbar Park.)
It's a south side neighborhood, a few miles south of the Loop but a few miles north of Hyde Park (Near where Obama lives). Back in the early 1900s, a very nice area. As I recall, some of the Worlds Fair was there. But there's been neglect since then. You may want to see if the Chicago Historical Society has information (assuming it's on line). There is a Chicago Park District reference to the park itself.