Not so much of a drift. It started out with R2-D2 cake and continued with food and stuff. The Gutter is inevitable.
Stay on topic. Stay on topic. (See you ain’t alone)
So we have been on topic but the title was off? News meaning anything new in Star Wars food. Oh now I get it. I do not think I could eat a R2D2 cake. I would hear his screaming beeeep as I took a bite. 
Just a quick poll: did everyone get what I meant with that Uhura picture or should I be more explicit?
sweetie, I think the answer to that particular question is almost always going to be no.
and in some cases, DEAR GOD, NO!!!
Ooh, thanks for mentioning that. It brings back a tasty childhood memory. My mom used to make this moist, delicious “Jewish Apple Cake”. My research to find the recipe seems to indicate that it’s similar to apfelkuchen except that it was made with orange juice and vegetable oil instead of milk and butter (so that it could be served with meat and still be Kosher). It’s dense and flavorful and stays good for days, assuming it lasts that long. Yum.
I have to say, though, when it comes to baked goods, you all could learn much from my people.
That’s for sure. Most of the really great local baked goods are transplants of Old-World German recipes. Say what you will about the Penn Dutch (starting with their apparent inability to spell the name of their own native language), but these people can bake.
Do you think they’ll still be good by the time they get here?
On second thought, German baking culture does have its own bad extremes…
Such as?
What’s that? Is it made with real parrots?
Kochbuch? Oh, like To Serve Man. I thot that meant something else altogether. :eek:
Have a recipe for that?
I don’t even need to read it anymore. I have a coworker who’s not exacTly the sharpest bulb in the hammerbag, if you know what I mean. He’ll say he has “one quick question” and then all of sudden you’re stuck answering the same stupid questions repeatedly for 20 minutes. Now every time he even talks to me, I hear Ackbar in my head saying “It’s a trap!”
Yum, although I prefer banana bread. I have this great recipe for one called “banana banana bread”. It’s overloaded with way too ripe bananas. It’s insanely good.
Do you go to the meetings with Casilda and Apollymy?
Last night my GF told me that her sister went through a crazy period once where she’d smoke bananas.
It’s only in moments like this than I can tell that English is not your first language. IYKWIM.
Or at least parts of bananas.
You mean the peels? Or the dried remnants thereof? Can’t imagine why she’d do that…
According to Sean, he likes puppies.
Isn’t that inside out then?
Damn you, Isaac Newton!
Stay on topic. Stay on topic. (See you ain’t alone)
You mean like this?
That sounds cool. I’d eat that any day.
Such as?
Such as the Campari muffins I spoke of. Have you ever tried Campari? It tastes so awful that one time, when I had to remove a sticky price tag from a CD case, I tried to do it with Campari because it couldn’t find any other solvent around the house.
What’s that? Is it made with real parrots?
Parrot cake? Hehe. No. It’s called parrot cake because of the funny colors.
Kochbuch? Oh, like To Serve Man. I thot that meant something else altogether. :eek:
Oh wait, the picture didn’t work? Crap. I’ll find another one.
Does that work?
I have a coworker
Seriously? You?
It’s only in moments like this than I can tell that English is not your first language. IYKWIM.
Why? What did I say?:eek:
You mean the peels? Or the dried remnants thereof? Can’t imagine why she’d do that…[quote]
Not the peels either, but those fibers or strands that stick to the banana when you already removed the peels. And yeah, they dried them.
[quote]Isn’t that inside out then?
Think way deeper down the gutter.
GR being more explicit, is that possible?
Do you want find out? Why am I asking questions everyhwere?
No, I really am not daring you to get more explicit.
You are asking questions since the question board has trained you well.
Because the Question thread infects all others! muwahaha
My mom called me back with the recipe today, if you’re interested.
Jewish Apple Cake
Peel and slice 8 apples
Add 3 tsp cinnamon and 5 tbsp sugar
Stir and set aside for one hour
Then combine the following in a separate bowl:
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
4 eggs
½ cup orange juice
3 tsp baking powder
2½ tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
Mix together until smooth.
Pour half of the batter into a greased Bundt pan.
Cover the batter with half of the apple mixture.
Repeat, using remainder of batter and apples.
Bake at 350ºF for 1½ hours.
…and the most difficult step of all:
Keep for 24 hours until eating. :eek:
Parrot cake? Hehe. No. It’s called parrot cake because of the funny colors.
Oh wait, the picture didn’t work? Crap. I’ll find another one.
Looks interesting. What’s in it?
Why? What did I say?
That your GF’s sister “smoked bananas”. Think about it.
Use the Gutter to guide you, in this as in all things. 
Not the peels either, but those fibers or strands that stick to the banana when you already removed the peels. And yeah, they dried them.
Do you know why?
Think way deeper down the gutter.
Oh, I understood what you were getting at. But sometimes the top layer is the same as the bottom layer.
Like a pie. 
Let the gutter be your guide? I did not know there was a gutter cook book.
well, you opened yourself right up. just pray they don’t take the bait
Shhhhhhhhh I really am not the gutter type. I have to try to think like them and it does not always work. Let us keep it hush hush. That probably means something I did not think about too.
Please no fishing in the gutter.
Thanks, that sounds both cool and simple enough that even I can do it. I’ll try it out soon.
Looks interesting. What’s in it?[quote]
In the parrot cake? Just different food colorings, otherwise it’s a pretty regular bundt cake, but kids love it for birthday parties (and me)
[quote]That your GF’s sister “smoked bananas”. Think about it.
Use the Gutter to guide you, in this as in all things.
I think I got it now. something like shaking the palm tree, eh?
Do you know why?
Hey, I don’t do that kind of stuff…
Oh, I understood what you were getting at. But sometimes the top layer is the same as the bottom layer.
Like a pie.
Really? I don’t believe that. I’ll google for pictures.
There’s fish in the gutter?
Thank you GR. I was so afraid. Please do not ask. :o
Why shouldn’t I ask?
Oh, this isn’t the questions thread…
The question thread has a force of its own.
Of course there is.
As did you. IYKWIM. 
just pray they don’t take the bait
Sometimes, the fish are just slow to bite…
Probably.
Please no fishing in the gutter.
Imagine what you’d catch… :eek:
Let me know what you think. Remembering that cake has given me a craving for it again, so I’ll probably be making some myself pretty soon, possibly as muffins. yum…
I think I got it now. something like shaking the palm tree, eh?
Not quite. Think “smoking” as in a cigarette. The “banana” part is self-explanatory, of course. It’s not an idiomatic phrase, per se, but I’d say it’s pretty blatantly obvious to a native speaker…
There’s fish in the gutter?
Among other things.
Don’t ask what?
Aren’t they all?
Like the Gutter, always drawing you down, down, down…