There's much to say about the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, and I'll be posting my thoughts on it shortly you can read the serious stuff here. But first...
In honor of the finale, a group organized by Mark Hugo (star of the excellent short film "Silent Film Star vs. the Undead") gathered... to eat pie. Lots and lots of pie. It was perhaps the first, and very likely the last, 12-Pie Frak Party in history: one pie for each of the 12 colonies (or "signs of the zodiac," if you insist). Without further ado, and in no particular order, I present the 12 Pies of Kobol:
Aerilon/Ares: A superb goat-meat pie. Reminded me a bit of beef stew, if beef stew had a very, very thick cheddar cheese crust. Which sounds like my kinda stew.
Canceron/Cancer: Plenty of crab meat in puff pastry.
Tauron/Taurus: A beefy shepherd's pie. If they're shepherds, why are they putting cow meat in their pies, anyway?
Gemenon/Gemini: A twinned pair: an apple pie, and a "mock apple pie," a Depression-era treat that defies reason by actually tasting kinda like apples despite containing no fruit at all (unless some lemon juice counts.) Can you guess the secret ingredient? I couldn't.
Caprica/Capricorn: A pair (since it was so good) of goat cheese pizza pies, with arugula, carmelized onions, two types of goat cheese, walnuts, and some Yuengling in the crust.
Picon/Pisces: This one should win some kind of presentation prize, though in the spirit of full disclosure I must admit that I didn't actually eat any of it. A stargazer pie containing whole mackerel, with the heads and tails poking out at the edges.
Sagittaron/Sagittarius: Is there any archer more famous than William Tell? (Besides Robin Hood? Or Green Arrow?) In his honor, here's another apple pie, with some cheese-and-straw arrows as garnish.
Scorpia/Scorpio: Since we couldn't find any scorpion meat, here's the next best thing: a scorpion roll, in pie form. Raw salmon, crab, shrimp, rice, avocado, and cream cheese, all on a seaweed crust. I couldn't bring myself to eat this one, thanks to despite piemaker Mark's insistence that "the fish is fresh! I got it yesterday!"
Aquarion/Aquarius: A lemon meringue pie, the surface of which resembles the storm-toss'd sea. Get it? Fine, you try thinking up a water-themed pie. That isn't a seafood pie, since we have four of those already. And a pie plate full of water won't cut it. What's that? The meringue does look like the ocean after all? That's what I thought.
Leonis/Leo: A butterscotch pie with a cute l'il lion piped in the middle. I'm not sure if the generally leonine shape of the coloring on top was deliberate or not, but I like it.
Libran/Libra: How does one make a pie to illustrate the concept of balance? Easy: make two pies that weigh exactly the same. These were rather rich peanut butter pies topped with chocolate. (See? Balance between light and dark, too!) I ated too much of this one.
Virgon/Virgo: My contribution: a cherry cream pie. Insert Warrant singalong here.
That's a lot of frakkin' pies.
Coming soon, And now, some thoughts on the religion-steeped conclusion of a darned good SF show.
*I've kept things generally anonymous, but if you were there and want your name or some sort of link or something on your pie, let me know. And don't forget to remind me which one you made!
I wish I lived in civilization so I could have ated too much pie instead of watching the finale by myself and eating some delicious - but inferior to a pie collection - pudding.
Posted by: Sarah Stern | March 21, 2009 at 04:58 PM
I demand recipes. RECIPES!
Posted by: Caithlin | March 23, 2009 at 02:07 PM