Saturday, November 19, 2011

Melda' Laure's (in-)Famous trail of broken treaties Pumpkin Pie.

Back by popular demand:

ML - "Y'know, Quent would say this is a damn waste of good booze."

Ell - "d'ya think you should tell them that you created this recipie as a means of clearing out the house of all hard liquor to prevent the alcoholic's from ruining the holiday?"

"Tell you what Ellie, I promise not to reveal any of your personal vices- ok?"

"Ha ha ha, very funny."


Na Tarte Nirnaith

Prepare pumpkin pie filling from Can of Libby's solid pack pumpkin (for two pies) as usual. Substitute 1 cup of Cheap Rot-gut Off Label Supermarket Brand Rum (I wouldn't even use Bacardi) by reducing the amount of canned milk by a similar amount. Use dark rum of course, the nastiest 2nd distillation- not quite good enough for molasses type stuff.

At this point, if you're having a party, you can just serve up the pumpkin pie filling raw and call it pumpkin Egg Nog. Dont worry about the raw eggs- the booze just killed all the bacteria and any sense of taste you may have had.

Now, since rum has no appreciable solids and the pie would be runny, add in 1/2 cup of yellow corn meal in memory of all those poor two leggeds (and four leggeds) who bought the farm at the hands of the Nobles 500 year war against native freedom, and everything decent and worthy and living. Feel free to toss a pinch of meal to each of the four directions if you're into that sort of thing (easier to get away with if your kitchen is out of doors.)

And remember, not even all of Jagera's guns and 200 year Final Solution pogrom against wolves could prevent the final outcome. 500 years of sorrows (and for some, drowning them in booze) gets on you after a while. It doesn't matter, in the grand scheme of things our present miseries are winning for us a great reward and victory.

It is (after all is said and done) as declares Kiba: I've lost nothing. Paradise is empty if you're the only one there- it's meaningless without your friends, or if (like Jagera) you dont have any.

"Ellie, are you going to help in the kitchen or waste your life on the computer all evening?"

ooh, gotta go.