Important advice

[MissHoneychurch]

when baking, make sure to have all ingredients :think: Double check your groceries list when writing it the evening before. Esp. when it is after 7pm (keep in mind, I live in Germany, stores generally close at 8pm here) and the first store you go to doesn't has what you need x( In my case sweet condensed milk. So I had to take the underground downtown to go to another store to get it :crazy:

[SeattleGirl]

1. Oops!

Done that one myself.

So, what are you baking? :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Probably "special" brownies.

She's a trouble maker.

[MissHoneychurch]

4. Now that would be fun

at the Christmas party with academics :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. If they're anything like the academics I know...

they'll LOVE THEM!

[MissHoneychurch]

15. Believe me, they are not

unfortunately ....

[SeattleGirl]

9. You are a bad, bad girl, haruka!

That's why I LIKE you!!! :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I know.

I've been avoiding DU a bit, but I'm back in full-form in the lounge tonight...er...this morning...um whatever.

[MissHoneychurch]

3. I made a Key Lime Pie

for the Christmas party at work today.

I know I know Key Lime Pie isn't really a Christmas pie but I don't think a lot of people here know that and it is the pie I know how to make without problems. Well, except you forget something :eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

10. Key Lime Pie!!!! Yummy!!!!

May I have some? :9

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Sure!!!

Come on over!!

It is my favorite pie :9

[SeattleGirl]

18. Oooooh! Be right there!

:bounce: :bounce:

[MissHoneychurch]

20. 'K

come to my workplace. The pie is in the fridge.

[Robeson]

5. Hey MissHoneychurch!....

...sorry to hear about your hard times. Lack of ingredients can spoil the dish. Glad to hear you pulled a rabbit out of your hat! :thumbsup:

[MissHoneychurch]

8. Thanks Robeson

I hope it came out good. But normally it does. I'll see tonight. And if the people don't like it, even better, then I can take home the rest of it and eat it all myself :9


How are you and MrsRobeson doing?

[Robeson]

16. We're doing good, thanks....

...hope you are, too! How are things going at the museum?

[MissHoneychurch]

22. So good to hear

tell her hello from me please!!!


Things are going OK here. We will get a new server for the house the week before Christmas. YAY. We will run the old one till the new one works without problems. Gonna be fun.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Robeson!

How are you??? :hi: :loveya:

[Robeson]

21. Hey SeattleGirl!....

...I doing fine. Hope everything is well in the Space Needle city! Nice to hear from you! :pals:

[chknltl]

6. Oh goody, Cooking advice...Here is mine:

Always understand that a "clove" of garlic is but a section of the "bulb" of garlic. When the recipe calls for 3 "cloves",...... yep learned that one the hard way my first time...nope did not even try to eat it... on the plus side: house had NO problems with vampires for awhile.

[MissHoneychurch]

14. ...

:spray:

I have a chicken recipe where there is 1 bulb of garlic asked for. You fill the chicken with it. And with grapes. But you cook the garlic first. Pretty good actually.

At least the vampires stayed away :rofl:

[chknltl]

23. Yum...

That actually sounds good. My fiasco happened when I was much younger while trying to fix dinner for a girl I was trying to impress... she got impressed alright, she never let me do the cookin much after that!

[MissHoneychurch]

25. So she didn't run away

now I would say it is the thought that counts ...

:hug:

[chknltl]

28. She did run away...8 years later.

But she rarely let me cook unsupervised after that. Actually I put that poor girl through much more hell than that...even tried to take her camping on a ridge 2 miles away from Mt. St Helens, yep THAT weekend. Went camping elsewhere and lived to tell the tale, her Volkswagen van didn't. (I related that tale in a different thread yesterday...hmmm, wonder if her ears are burnin...guess I should stop)

[hfojvt]

7. used to be an old American tradition

that you could knock on a neighbor's door and ask to "borrow" a cup of flour or some eggs. But in America we have Wal-mart or 24 hour quick-stops where you can get most of those things.

[MissHoneychurch]

19. That happened when I made the pie the last time

After 8pm. Between 9 and 10pm. Actually a time I would never ring the bell at another apt. But I was desperate. I only had 4 eggs (the recipe asks for 4 eggs) and I killed one. Couldn't use it. I had to ring the bells on most other apt. in the house I lived till someone opened and had eggs. One family didn't eat eggs at all(???), another one just had beer (student), others weren't home.

[hfojvt]

24. I don't eat eggs at all either

but I bake them into my cookies as the recipe calls for.

I'm sure leftymom knows something else I could use. Maybe I should try it, but I am guessing it would be hard to find and expensive. And probably be an acquired taste. I did, however, stop using vanilla and do not miss it.

[MissHoneychurch]

26. May I ask why?

I mean I am not a big fan of vanilla but once in a while you need it for baking.

[hfojvt]

27. it contains alcohol

and I had declared a fatwa against alcohol.

[LynzM]

29. Oh, ugh....

Honestly, that was one of my least favorite things about living in Germany, that I couldn't just run out at 11 pm to get what I needed! Bah! LOL.

Glad it worked out ok, though :)

:hi: