It's a good thing when your show-off dish is easy to make

I think everybody should have at least one dish that they can make and bring places that everyone loves. Lis has two -- she makes an incredible baklava and an incredible fudge. I've got two -- cheesecake and chocolate pie. Cheesecake is fun to make, but it takes like a dozen ingredients, hours, and vaguely tricky timing. It's not actually that difficult, but it's a bit of a pain.

But my chocolate pie is EASY. And that means that I've got a show-off dish that I can just, y'know, MAKE.

I've made two this morning. Took about an hour for both of 'em. vonbeck suggested putting cinnamon sticks on the hot one to distinguish them, which is what I'm going to do. I like the chili pepper idea, but I don't have chili peppers, and I DO have cinnamon sticks.

More of my day.

This morning, Mom called me about the hot foods party, and I gave her directions.

An hour or two later, Mom called me back.

"After I got off the phone with you, I started reading your livejournal, to continue procrastinating. And, you know that story you wrote about? I've been reading it since I got off the phone with you. It's really creepy! I can't stop reading it!

"The thing is, there's a house that looks just like that three blocks from here. So now I'm afraid I'm going to be eaten by that house. If I don't show up at the hot foods party tonight, send the police out after me."

Dad claims that that's perfectly normal. Because houses eat people all the time. He says that, every so often, he'll be demo-ing (demolishing, not demonstrating) a building, and find bones in the foundation. . .

He also mentioned, tangentially, that there was one building my great grandfather designed, in Boston, that the demolition of it too six months longer than planned. Because, see, he was an ancestor of mine. And had his own ideas of what "building codes" should be. Instead of using steel rebar in the concrete, he used wire cables. The building would not fall down. Just wouldn't.

Anyway, there were parties. Still are, actually. It's only eleven, now, so I assume that both parties are going strong.
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