I feel you there. I never got to do all that much cooking when I was growing up, so when I moved out, that was first on the list. The first time I made chocolate chip cookies, I was gobsmacked at how delicious they were. …Okay, they weren’t that great, but they were made with my own two hands! It was such a great feeling!
And then I had to clean all the bowls and spoons. Much less great of a feeling.
I’m 6 weeks and a day behind you! I’m determined to get to the end of this archive tonight! Been trudging through this archive for a few months now, giggling the whole way through.
Careful that’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know you’ll become one of em weirdos that bakes bread at home.
“Oh I just can’t stand the thought of those harmful chemicals they put in”
FYI the ‘harmful-chemical’ are sugar and canola oil. Turns out customers crave it like roaches, and sufficient ‘sugar-oil mix’ starts to kill bacteria, so your food lasts forever. Like how McDonalds never expires.
Look up the “canola oil is evil” email chain that occurs from time to time 😀
Not to mention, pie also contains dihydrogen monoxide, which has been implicated in thousands of drowning deaths every year.
Fantastic. [Allan please add comment involving zombies and pies]
I have the current green background color code saved to my computer so I can set up some sort of macro to switch to this color once we go to the new layout. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
The real danger in making your own bread is that after tasting it, you’ll never want to buy commercial bread again. Just walking down the bread isle of your local grocery store will produce a feeling of disgust that you won’t be able to shake off. I know; my wife and I fell down that rathole years ago, and we’re still making our own bread. We even get asked to bring bread to potlucks. So don’t go there, unless you want to be forever doomed to eat lots of good-tasting bread that you made yourself. (I’ll resist tempting you by saying just how easy it actually is. 😉
You have to study up on the hierarchy of cobbler… it’s peach, blackberry, cherry and apple… in that order… at least that’s what my wife says about bringing her cobbler on her death bed. 😉
I’m 30 and still single, mostly because I’m waiting to find a girl who’d be okay with peach cobbler instead of cake at the wedding. Cake is for chumps.
But the tradition in NA is that the top tier is a fruit cake that you get to eat at your 1st anniversary.
A friend and their now spouse both detest fruitcake so they had the baker make it a rice crispy treat infused with all sorts of weird but yummy ingredients that held up well in the freezer. Neither parents know as yet and I ain’t squealing.
Yeah but screw traditions and screw fruitcake, I want me some peaches!
Also I know of the tradition to freeze part of the cake and eat it at the anniversary, but I’ve never seen a fruitcake tier on a wedding cake before. Interesting.
Next stop pastry.
I can bake bread, flaky pastry to make you mouth water, New York style cheese cake, etc. Can’t make chocolate cookies to save my life. They always either burn or are under cooked.
I don’t do pies or cheese cakes since those have been staked out by my siblings.
I do the occasional cake but my forte is cookies.
Everything from the date cookies that eat like a meal, to Sherry Pecan Biscotti.
Joe Froggers where my master piece where I was using pizza pans for the cookie sheets and got the thickness just right so that they wouldn’t break under their own weight and yet were crispy all the way across. [insert Simpson garglemargle here]
I work at a place where they do previz for some of these movies. And I felt like a superhero when I made pumpkin bread for the first time, and even made it again for my co-workers. They will be seeing this strip. :p
I feel you there. I never got to do all that much cooking when I was growing up, so when I moved out, that was first on the list. The first time I made chocolate chip cookies, I was gobsmacked at how delicious they were. …Okay, they weren’t that great, but they were made with my own two hands! It was such a great feeling!
And then I had to clean all the bowls and spoons. Much less great of a feeling.
Oh, you know what’s really nice? If you simmer the apples in cider with a bit of quince or rosewater for the pie filling.
i have just finished reading every single strip from this site…. awwwwwe man… im at the end
now i have to work instead of reading bug all day
There’s more a comin’!
I’m 6 weeks and a day behind you! I’m determined to get to the end of this archive tonight! Been trudging through this archive for a few months now, giggling the whole way through.
Careful that’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know you’ll become one of em weirdos that bakes bread at home.
“Oh I just can’t stand the thought of those harmful chemicals they put in”
FYI the ‘harmful-chemical’ are sugar and canola oil. Turns out customers crave it like roaches, and sufficient ‘sugar-oil mix’ starts to kill bacteria, so your food lasts forever. Like how McDonalds never expires.
Look up the “canola oil is evil” email chain that occurs from time to time 😀
Not to mention, pie also contains dihydrogen monoxide, which has been implicated in thousands of drowning deaths every year.
Alternate title: “The Amazing Pie-der Man”
The Perplexing Purple Pie Man of Porcupine Peak!
The pose in panel one is probably pretty accurate how your wife felt about it.
Fantastic. [Allan please add comment involving zombies and pies]
I have the current green background color code saved to my computer so I can set up some sort of macro to switch to this color once we go to the new layout. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
The real danger in making your own bread is that after tasting it, you’ll never want to buy commercial bread again. Just walking down the bread isle of your local grocery store will produce a feeling of disgust that you won’t be able to shake off. I know; my wife and I fell down that rathole years ago, and we’re still making our own bread. We even get asked to bring bread to potlucks. So don’t go there, unless you want to be forever doomed to eat lots of good-tasting bread that you made yourself. (I’ll resist tempting you by saying just how easy it actually is. 😉
You have to study up on the hierarchy of cobbler… it’s peach, blackberry, cherry and apple… in that order… at least that’s what my wife says about bringing her cobbler on her death bed. 😉
I’m 30 and still single, mostly because I’m waiting to find a girl who’d be okay with peach cobbler instead of cake at the wedding. Cake is for chumps.
But the tradition in NA is that the top tier is a fruit cake that you get to eat at your 1st anniversary.
A friend and their now spouse both detest fruitcake so they had the baker make it a rice crispy treat infused with all sorts of weird but yummy ingredients that held up well in the freezer. Neither parents know as yet and I ain’t squealing.
So, have they ever had good fruitcake? You know, the kind that’s a bunch of dried fruit and rum with a bit of dough as a binder.
Yeah but screw traditions and screw fruitcake, I want me some peaches!
Also I know of the tradition to freeze part of the cake and eat it at the anniversary, but I’ve never seen a fruitcake tier on a wedding cake before. Interesting.
Powerful Apple on Monday
Apple (pie) powers on Wednesday
Whoa.
On pins and needles for Friday.
Next stop pastry.
I can bake bread, flaky pastry to make you mouth water, New York style cheese cake, etc. Can’t make chocolate cookies to save my life. They always either burn or are under cooked.
Just don’t be like Homer and throw them… mmmmm… pie *drools*
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Pie_Man
I like your girlfriend’s pose, slightly astonished that you’ve done something without messing it up. I know that pose, I see it a lot.
@Odo Whortwick: Upgrade your baking pans to a proper cookie sheet.
Sorry, Shortwick.
I don’t do pies or cheese cakes since those have been staked out by my siblings.
I do the occasional cake but my forte is cookies.
Everything from the date cookies that eat like a meal, to Sherry Pecan Biscotti.
Joe Froggers where my master piece where I was using pizza pans for the cookie sheets and got the thickness just right so that they wouldn’t break under their own weight and yet were crispy all the way across. [insert Simpson garglemargle here]
I, too, just learned how to make pie. I was astonished to learn just how hard it is to screw it up. Try as I might, I just could NOT get it wrong!
“It’s cobblerin’ time” might be my favorite line you ever produced.
I work at a place where they do previz for some of these movies. And I felt like a superhero when I made pumpkin bread for the first time, and even made it again for my co-workers. They will be seeing this strip. :p
I dunno. To me, cooking isn’t that hard. I can pretty much make anything I put my mind to. I make the best cheesecake you’ve ever had, IMHO…
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.