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20455. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 7:11:46 PM Very nicely! I wasn't worried about the stew, if you cook it long enough you can't go wrong. I worried about getting the pastry right. To my taste, it was perfect. Most of the guests didn't finish their pie crust. I was amused but not offended. It's a cultural thing. These folks were not brought up on pies from the corner shop.
I used this recipe from the BBC, and it worked a treat. 20456. judithathome - 10/29/2006 7:45:16 PM I always finish pie crusts because I feel if people went to the trouble to make them from scratch, it's the least I can do to show my appreciation for their efforts. 20457. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 9:17:22 PM A neighbour just turned up to borrow some roofing material, and wanted to show me where his son is now (at university in Ashland, Oregon), then one thing led to another and we spent an hour overflying Tierra del Fuego on Google Earth, retracing his adventure there at the beginning of the year. Time well spent.
But I was supposed to be preparing next week's little trip to Italy. 20458. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:25:37 PM My son and I once had a pie crust making contest once. It was years ago. I should have soled my shoes with it. Neither of us won. I think he still has his. Uses it as a frisby. I prefer cats. 20459. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:28:21 PM alistair
You keep roofing material on hand? Just in case a friend should drop by? 20460. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:30:06 PM I'll be in Astoria next week. 20461. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:31:01 PM I wish it were Ashland. 20462. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 11:19:19 PM I prefer cats
To frisbees? For throwing, you mean? 20463. poipual - 10/29/2006 11:39:37 PM I refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me. 20464. jexster - 10/30/2006 12:41:14 AM 
20465. Magoseph - 10/30/2006 4:31:47 PM Hey, Cap'n, say thank you for the gorgeous weather on its way to you! 20466. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:44:36 PM My mother invented the Fribee but around here, we just called it her pie crust. 20467. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:46:26 PM Crap...FriSbee.
My colonoscopy went well this morning; they found one polyp and removed it and I am on a liquid diet for two days and bland food for 5 more.
So hello mashed potatoes, tapioca pudding, cottage cheese, and plain pasta. 20468. alistairConnor - 10/30/2006 11:48:57 PM (Insert tactful and encouraging greeting to Judith here! Damn, can't think of one.)
(Damn. Should perhaps avoid the word "insert".) 20469. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:50:08 PM I'm still drugged...so that "pun" was funny. 20470. Magoseph - 10/31/2006 8:11:41 PM Hello, Moties--what's new with you this beautiful morning?
I just voted, straight ticket this time. There were two questions, one about marriage and the other about death.
Then, I went to get a Latte and here I am reading W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair. 20471. judithathome - 10/31/2006 9:58:08 PM I'm eagerly looking forward to tomorrow...not only will I be able to eat some REAL food, bland though it will be, but we are going to a free jazz concert at TCU tomorrow evening. Their jazz band is fabulous and we've been a few times; always enjoy it a lot. 20472. Magoseph - 11/1/2006 1:14:34 AM Hi, Arky--what have you been doing lately? 20473. arkymalarky - 11/1/2006 1:28:51 AM Hi Mags. I've been extremely busy, but like I said at the start of the semester, determined to at least lurk here a few minutes a day. I won't bore folks with a laundry list, but I have a lot of papers/projects/books to finish in November, in addition to a lot going on (nothing bad--just stuff) on the job and at home. 20474. arkymalarky - 11/1/2006 1:31:43 AM I'm waiting out the evening to see if we go 0 for 23 on trick-or-treaters.
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