Care package!!! I'll PayPal.
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'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.
SuziQ - Nov 18, 2012 8:27:05 am PST #1362 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
Burrell - Nov 18, 2012 9:51:00 am PST #1369 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay for the good ER visit, ita! Now they just need to work on consistency.
I am doing ALL THE LAUNDRY today, while the kids demonstrate their agility at finding silly Wii cheats, like Xmas hats on all the characters. Not a bad way to start the vacation.
Consuela - Nov 18, 2012 9:53:42 am PST #1370 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vodak recipe, Consuela?
Nope: 3/4 c cold butter, 1/2 c shortening, 2.5 c flour, 1 tsp salt, 2 Tbs sugar. Cut together until pea-sized (you will take my pastry blender from my cold dead hands), add 6-8 Tbs ice water (or more), toss gently. Shape into two disks, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate.
It's a lot of butter, but it's the most reliable crust I know. I roll it out with the plastic wrap on top, at least to start, using the awesome French rolling pin Beth's DH made for me. After I put it in the pan I stick the pan in the freezer (for a single-crust pie), and I don't usually pre-bake the crusts, because even with pie weights the damn sizes slump down. (I don't do many lemon meringue pies, as a result.)
Vortex - Nov 18, 2012 10:06:25 am PST #1371 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
(you will take my pastry blender from my cold dead hands)
sing it, sister!
I roll it out with the plastic wrap on top, at least to start, using the awesome French rolling pin Beth's DH made for me
ME TOO! Seriously, I do the same thing (including a rolling pin made by Beth's DH), although my crust recipe is slightly different.