To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


le nubian - Nov 18, 2012 8:09:05 am PST #1359 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

you can now buy the video of "This American Life" show from last May.

It was really incredible. Rakoff's piece (from memory) is so much more affecting now.

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Lee - Nov 18, 2012 8:23:41 am PST #1360 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Trader joes has their holiday cookies and sweets out already, including all of the holiday Jojo packs.

Just in case anyone was wondering.


Steph L. - Nov 18, 2012 8:26:48 am PST #1361 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Trader joes has their holiday cookies and sweets out already, including all of the holiday Jojo packs.

I saw that last week. SO TEMPTING. Except the evil peppermint Joe-Joe's. Yuck.


SuziQ - Nov 18, 2012 8:27:05 am PST #1362 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Care package!!! I'll PayPal.


Ginger - Nov 18, 2012 8:31:01 am PST #1363 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I use a combined CI/Alton Brown method. I don't normally like baked goods that use oil, because they often end up having an oily feel. However, I learned from CI that if you start by beating your eggs and then slowly adding the oil like you were making mayonnaise, you get an emulsion that removes the oily feel. Then I add the rest of the wet ingredients and beat the hell out of them. I mix the dry ingredients, and by mix, I mean dump the baking soda, etc., on top of the flour in the cup measure, and then adhere to Alton Brown's advice to add the dry ingredients and mix no longer than 30 seconds.


Lee - Nov 18, 2012 8:47:06 am PST #1364 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Care package!!! I'll PayPal.

Send me your list and we can work it out.


-t - Nov 18, 2012 9:00:21 am PST #1365 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Except the evil peppermint Joe-Joe's. Yuck.

Those are my favorite!

I was wondering, Lee, thanks! Maybe if I go tomorrow they won't all be gone yet...


Consuela - Nov 18, 2012 9:20:05 am PST #1366 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

My holiday baking is underway: two pie crusts (CI recipe) are in the fridge for use on Monday or Tuesday morning...


le nubian - Nov 18, 2012 9:40:05 am PST #1367 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I love that you have crime investigators' recipes for pie crusts.


§ ita § - Nov 18, 2012 9:40:52 am PST #1368 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Vodak recipe, Consuela?

I keep forgetting thanksgiving. I

you should beat your eggs with the milk/yogurt separately. mix the dry stuff separately, then put them together and fold in

Yup. Eggs/butter/vanilla/pineapple poured into a well of flour/sugar/leaveners pretty much.