To fuck or to cook?

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

Cite please?

What, you lost your Google fu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Fugee

What, you lost your Google fu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox

Still have it. I was asking for the cite that Hydrox were introduced 5 years earlier. From the Wiki article it looks like somewhere more than 3 but less than 5.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

Still have it. I was asking for the cite that Hydrox were introduced 5 years earlier. From the Wiki article it looks like somewhere more than 3 but less than 5.

Jesus Christ. If anything is getting ripped off on this board, that thing is "this kind of post" and the victim is me.

[Fugee]

I'm supposed to bring dessert for Christmas Eve dinner with my family. I love to bring dessert but the problem is everyone also brings cookies so a big fancy dessert often gets overlooked in favor of cookies.

Any suggestions? I'm super busy this week so am leaning toward -- gasp -- not baking and just bringing a couple things of mint ice cream and some good hot fudge sauce.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Fugee

I'm supposed to bring dessert for Christmas Eve dinner with my family. I love to bring dessert but the problem is everyone also brings cookies so a big fancy dessert often gets overlooked in favor of cookies.

Any suggestions? I'm super busy this week so am leaning toward -- gasp -- not baking and just bringing a couple things of mint ice cream and some good hot fudge sauce.

It seems to me that a crisp or a rustic cobbler is the sweet spot -- not fancy; scalable portion size for people who want to have it plus some cookies; vaguely Christmassy. I recommend the CI apple claufuti, which is a nice cross between a baked cobbler and a pudding.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Fugee

I'm supposed to bring dessert for Christmas Eve dinner with my family. I love to bring dessert but the problem is everyone also brings cookies so a big fancy dessert often gets overlooked in favor of cookies.

Any suggestions? I'm super busy this week so am leaning toward -- gasp -- not baking and just bringing a couple things of mint ice cream and some good hot fudge sauce.

I know the problem. One option is to tell those cookie-bringing fuckers to step off your corner (ho). Another is to fight fire with fire, and do some sort of flambe dessert that blows their cookies off the table.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

It seems to me that a crisp or a rustic cobbler is the sweet spot -- not fancy; scalable portion size for people who want to have it plus some cookies; vaguely Christmassy. I recommend the CI apple claufuti, which is a nice cross between a baked cobbler and a pudding.

Or a cherry clafouti. Though pitting the cherries can be messy and time-consuming, overall it's a fun and relatively easy dessert that's always been well-received.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

It seems to me that a crisp or a rustic cobbler is the sweet spot -- not fancy; scalable portion size for people who want to have it plus some cookies; vaguely Christmassy. I recommend the CI apple claufuti, which is a nice cross between a baked cobbler and a pudding.

Agreed. My strawberry-rhubarb crisp is always a hit.

There is this play called "God of Carnage" about yuppies in Cobble Hill and when I saw it, the character that James Gandolfini played was particularly upset with his emasculization as a result of yuppie-dom and Clafuti had something to do with it. I am just throwing that out there.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

I know the problem. One option is to tell those cookie-bringing fuckers to step off your corner (ho). Another is to fight fire with fire, and do some sort of flambe dessert that blows their cookies off the table.

The cookies should actually be the dessert and I like munching on them the rest of the night so I'd never suggest people not bring them. (Not to mention that I'm one of the cookie bringing fuckers.)

And I won't be in the mood for anything involved enough to blow the cookies off the table.

A crisp or clafouti would be tasty** but I prefer to eat them warm and will be driving 1-1/2 hours after working part of the day so that could be problematic.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Agreed. My strawberry-rhubarb crisp is always a hit.

There is this play called "God of Carnage" about yuppies in Cobble Hill and when I saw it, the character that James Gandolfini played was particularly upset with his emasculization as a result of yuppie-dom and Clafuti had something to do with it. I am just throwing that out there.

Yeah, but look where Gandolfini ended up. All good.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally Posted by Fugee

The cookies should actually be the dessert and I like munching on them the rest of the night so I'd never suggest people not bring them. (Not to mention that I'm one of the cookie bringing fuckers.)

And I won't be in the mood for anything involved enough to blow the cookies off the table.

A crisp or clafouti would be tasty** but I prefer to eat them warm and will be driving 1-1/2 hours after working part of the day so that could be problematic.

Why do you have to bring anything beyond the cookies?

Yours,
Another Cookie Bringing Fucker

[Adder]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Agreed. My strawberry-rhubarb crisp is always a hit.

Are you sure they aren't just being polite? 'cause there is no excuse for anything containing rhubarb.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Fugee

I'm supposed to bring dessert for Christmas Eve dinner with my family. I love to bring dessert but the problem is everyone also brings cookies so a big fancy dessert often gets overlooked in favor of cookies.

Any suggestions? I'm super busy this week so am leaning toward -- gasp -- not baking and just bringing a couple things of mint ice cream and some good hot fudge sauce.

My boyfriend inadvertently started a new Christmas dessert tradition last year with an out of this world croissant bread pudding. I'll ask where he got the recipe.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Adder

Are you sure they aren't just being polite? 'cause there is no excuse for anything containing rhubarb.

I'm growing more and more sympathetic to the paralegal.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Adder

Are you sure they aren't just being polite? 'cause there is no excuse for anything containing rhubarb.

This is why you don't get laid much.