Making Baklava

[bertine]

On the phone at the grocery store:
Me: Mom, how many ounces in a pound?
Mom: Are you buying gold? If you are it is 12 to a troy pound.
Me: I am buying nuts.
Mom: Oh, then it is 16.

Leaving my parents after I grabbed a cinnamon stick:
Dad: What is baklava?
Me: It is nuts with spices in a pastry dough covered in syrup.
Dad: Could you make me some without the nuts?


I have never made baklava before. I think I put too much butter between the layers because I didn't have a pastry brush. Plus the nuts are pretty big. Oh well, it looks like it will be good regardless.

Comments

[bertine.livejournal.com]

But nuts are good!!

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

I hate nuts SO MUCH. I used to tell people I was allergic to nuts because they wouldn't respect my decision to simply NOT EAT THEM.

I accidentally started to eat a peanut butter truffle the other day (it was disguised in a milk chocolate shaped wrapper) and OMG ew. Ew ew ew.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Send me any unwanted peanut butter truffles. I love nuts, I usually have a tub of them at my desk.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

They were on my not-boss's desk, I stole one and then spit it out like EW EW EW EW EW EW EW. And then I yelled at him the next day for having candy that lied.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

But you stole it! Swipe at your own peril!!

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

Milo is constantly trying to make me eat food with nuts in it. Like this fruity nut-bread that is obviously his favorite food in the whole world or something, because he offers it at least once per visit. I am like, you are ridiculous, and if I were really allergic to nuts as I pretended to be on our first few dates then I would be convinced you were trying to kill me.

Lies! Lies I tell you!!

[akorahil.livejournal.com]

I usually have a tub of them at my desk.


Unless this is new behavior in the P.M.E. (That's Post Matt Era), you usually have baked goods from your kitchen that all sample at your desk.

That and cans of soup underneath, but I digress.

Re: Lies! Lies I tell you!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

and a can of peanuts in my top drawer that I don't share. :P

Re: Lies! Lies I tell you!!

[akorahil.livejournal.com]

I was not privy to the new shit that had come to light...

Re: Lies! Lies I tell you!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

About peanuts? Or something else?

Re: Lies! Lies I tell you!!

[akorahil.livejournal.com]

About the peanuts.
Why these secrets between us? :P