i've never seen a man blue-screen so fully on camera

He got a friend 😀

"Just a little bit limp-wristed"

"Livin' large tonight boys!"

"I'm not making fun of the Great Depression!

...I am making fun of the Great Depression."

Small things that make me sad about America #1: they have no Bramley Apples here. Big knobbly ugly sour cooking apples. They do not exist in this place.

We're lucky, we have an apple tree in the paddock which grows Bramley cooking apples.

Thanks to someone's clever grafting about 30 years ago, it also grows Beauty of Bath, a red-skinned, pink-fleshed heritage eating apple (though you have to move fast before the wasps get in - see top right).

It only crops every other year - if my calculations are correct, this is one of the Other Years - but when it crops, it does so With Enthusiasm.

Like, three or four bagfuls like this...

Just look at those. OM NOM NOM.

For those of you who don't know: the Bramley apple appeared more or less out of nowhere—a "sport", as they say—and is possibly now the most famous of all British apples because it's so good for baking with.

But meanwhile: very much feeling @neil-gaiman's pain. It's true what he says: if you're in the US, most of the time you might as well wish for one of the Apples of the Hesperides as a Bramley. You won't find them at the supermarket. They're not commercially popular... possibly due to being stubbornly asymmetrical and really sour. (Which is absolutely their strength when you're baking with them, as they calm down a lot but still stay tart.)

Now, though, you can at least buy the trees over there, and plant one of your own! Here's one nursery supplying them, and there are others. You can order them online and they'll ship sapling trees to you. (Also, for all those interested, see this page for general Bramley apple growth & care info.)

I will buy a Bramley Apple tree. I will do this thing.

Christmas time means cookie time!

Looks like ineed to make these now

"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death."

I knew this would be a good one.

Happy holidays.

just cooperate - and in the end these are better than rice krispies treats

b dylan is trying to say you're a little messed up Theresa on the other hand he also said these is just a good idea so want to try

Oh, we used to make those when I was kids. We called them bird nests, and would shape them into little cups and put an m&m or a marshmallow in there for the eggs.

They are so.... upsettingly good....

b dylan is trying to say you're a little messed up Theresa on the other hand he also said these is just a good idea so want to try

"You're insane, but I love you!"

He put the broken clock back up.

"What are balls without nuts?"

"There's no ice in this"

"There seems to have been a murder."

Okay, this looks delicious and easy so I wrote it down including metric conversions:

Chocolate Beet Cake from 1966

Blend the can of pickled beets, including the juice.

Whisk the oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs together vigorously.

Add the blended beets.

Add the flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda (bicarb soda) to wet ingredients.

Place in a bundt tin and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 50 minutes.

Ganache:

1/2 a cup cream

4oz (113g) chocolate (dark?)

Melt cream and chocolate together over very low heat, just until the chocolate melts and everything is smooth. Spread over the cake.

He loves them

Leftover bread pancakes

Avocado Bread from 1973