Get back in the kitchen Take the booze with you. But first, go shopping so you have everything you need for Lovecraftian pie and pineapple rum upside down cake. Spring for real butter, because butter is wonderful. Arrive back to find the power is out. Make Bloody Marys, full of vodka, and blessed amongst cocktails. Do some prep work and then watch cute Studio Ghibli films because laptop batteries are wonderful.
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Cut up pineapples and set to soak in rum. With coffee mug
full of Bloody Mary. |
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More prep work: mixing the pie crust. McNulty looks on.
The paper on the floor is for the cat to tear up, not trash. |
If you drink 3 Bloody Mary's fast in front of a mirror in the bathroom, because some of you have mirrors in bathrooms, probably nothing will happen.
Eventually, the power will come back on. Create the bottom of the pie shell in the wonderful pie pan made for you by a volunteer with a leatherman, a cheap sufuria (the aluminum pans we are using in all the photos), and some spare time. Realize you need more flour, and find some small children you can pay a pittance to go fetch you more. Make them take out your trash while you are at it.
Make custard, rather the cheating way with custard powder. Realize this doesn't actually work very well, and the "custard flavoring" of the powder overwhelms the passion fruit juice you added and results in boring custard. Regret the custard-expertise of your sister in the states. Whatever. Fill the pie crust and let chill. Listen to some HP Podcraft episodes to get in the mood. Draw a picture as a guide to creating the Crawling Chaos in pie form and break out the food coloring.
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| Posing with the bowls of egg whites mixed with food coloring. |
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| Ink pen sketch of the Crawling Chaos. |
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| Carefully cutting out dough and painting it. |
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| Suckers for tentacles must be individually painted. |
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| The partially assembled pie. |
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| Rerolling the dough (with an empty bottle. Some people have rolling pins) |
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Ia! Crawling Chaos! Unspeakable Blasphemy!
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While the pie is in the oven (or, if you aren't as special as me, the sufuria within a sufuria with another sufuria on top for a lid), mix up the pineapple rum upside down cake in a sufuria, followa recipe off the internet, but ignore all the prissy directions like sea salt or organic fruits. Likewise there is no need to mix things up in separate bowls. Keep dishwashing needs minimized. It was getting late, I was done taking pictures. And while the cake was yummy, particularly hot with ice cream that I had made last week, it wasn't nearly as pretty as the finished crawling chaos pie.
Eat a lot. Drink a lot. Stagger off to bed.
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