{"id":68016,"date":"2018-12-14T06:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=68016"},"modified":"2018-12-14T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:23:20","slug":"sewing-small-talk-recipe-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/12\/sewing-small-talk-recipe-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"sewing small talk: recipe comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little late giving you my Grandma&#8217;s pumpkin pie recipe, but at our house this is an all-year-long favorite so don&#8217;t wait until next Thanksgiving to make it, OK? S adores pumpkin pie, and I think it might be because this version uses milk instead of super-sweet condensed milk. But who knows? The recipe is at the end of this post, so read on.<\/p>\n<p>But first, I was thinking about recipes and cooking blogs the other day and feeling thankful I&#8217;m not a food blogger. I mean, have you ever read the comments on food blogs? They are often both amusing and incredibly irritating. My favorites are the ones where a reader complains that the recipe didn&#8217;t turn out correctly, but then they also admit that they either didn&#8217;t follow the steps or use the correct ingredients. But my second favorite are the comments where someone wants to completely alter a recipe and asks how to do it. For example, a (fictional) comment on a recipe for, I don&#8217;t know, Kiwi Fruit Ice Cream. (There isn&#8217;t such a recipe as far as I know, but I have a kiwi fruit allergy so I&#8217;ll use it as an example.) &#8220;I&#8217;m allergic to kiwi fruit. Is there a way to make this ice cream without kiwi?&#8221; I mean, if you have a kiwi fruit allergy don&#8217;t make the recipe! (Besides, salted caramel ice cream is so much better&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ve read these comments too, right? So I thought that this week we should have a &#8220;contest&#8221; to see who can write the worst\/funniest review for a (fictional) sewing pattern or sewing tutorial. Who can be the worst commenter? Let off a little pre-holiday steam and show us what you&#8217;ve got in the comments, OK? I know you can do it.<\/p>\n<p>And in the meantime I&#8217;ll pretend to be a food blogger and leave you with Grandma&#8217;s recipe. Although, unlike real food bloggers you only get an old photo of my wine bottle rolling pin back from when we first moved to Madrid and I didn&#8217;t have a real rolling pin. You&#8217;re only getting this photo because I&#8217;m cooking lunch for about 15 people tomorrow, so I don&#8217;t have time to go looking for a real pumpkin pie photo!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-68018 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling-760x569.jpg\" alt=\"wine bottle rolling pin\" width=\"760\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling-760x569.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling-500x374.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling-768x575.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pie-crust-rolling-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grandma B&#8217;s Pumpkin Pie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whisk together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 t sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 t ground ginger<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 t ground cloves<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 t ground nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1 t salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then whisk in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups of canned pumpkin (or cooked, mashed butternut squash)<\/li>\n<li>3 beaten eggs<\/li>\n<li>a little less than 1 cup of milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pour the mixture into a prepared crust and bake at 375 degrees F for 45 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>So easy! The hardest part is making the crust, but I&#8217;ll leave that part up to you.<\/p>\n<p>And, now, I turn it over to you. Do you best&#8211;or worst. Let&#8217;s hear your worst\/funniest review for a (fictional) sewing pattern or sewing tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you write the worst cooking-blog-inspired fictional sewing tutorial comment ever? Give it a try! And, as a bonus, you get Liesl&#8217;s Grandma&#8217;s pumpkin pie recipe. Because, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20792],"class_list":["post-68016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-small-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12-14-feature.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-hH2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67465,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/11\/weekend-links-87.html","url_meta":{"origin":68016,"position":0},"title":"weekend links","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"November 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Liesl is here with her regular dose of weekend links for your reading and viewing pleasure.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;general post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"general post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zipper-feature.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3386,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2011\/12\/moda-designer-holiday-blog-hop.html","url_meta":{"origin":68016,"position":1},"title":"moda designer holiday blog hop","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"December 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember Moda's Country Fair theme from Spring 2011 Quilt Market which was carried through to a designer blog hop last September? 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