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

[ntiva.livejournal.com]

So he just wanted the phyllo dough? :P

[seattleforge.livejournal.com]

Your Mom is hilarious.

Baklava without nuts is sin.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was totally insulted.

I don't think he got it, he doesn't like nuts in his baked goods but the point of this one is the nuts.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I think my mom has been hanging out with my dad too long.

Baklava without nuts is phyllo with sugar on it.

[jessikate.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, baklava. *drool*

Your mom is funny, I love the gold/troy pound comment

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

That's amazing because 1) who assumes that somebody is buying gold before doing something normal people do, like cooking and 2) who ACTUALLY KNOWS THAT (though I guess I do now).

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

OH AND PS BAKLAVA WITHOUT NUTS IS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY. HIGH FIVE TO YOUR DAD.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

It is sticky and good. I can't believe it turned out as well as it did.

I think my parents watch too much History channel.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I totally forget that I get my sense of humor from my parents.

[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.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

I don't know where I get my sense of humor. I don't remember my mom being very funny, and the rest of my family certainly isn't. I think I was exposed to radioactive material as a child.

[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!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

That is possible. I am so much like my parents it is a little sad. The only big difference is that I have more ambition and willingness to "play the game" in the corporate world.

[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.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

I could have lots of my father's personality traits, but I hope not.

[ntiva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes no sense at all. It's like when Alex orders a cheeseburger at restaurants, but orders it "without the meat".

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Of course, knowing my dad he was making a joke. I couldn't tell though.

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