You know how programmers have those rubber ducks they talk to to walk through their code and work out problems? That’s Codywan to each other. Both of them have this habit of sitting the other down (even booking out a meeting into the other’s schedule if they need to) and then just rambling about their problem while the other just listens. A lot of it, for Cody, is about strategy. Cody’s the master at it, but Obi-Wan’s good too, and sometimes Cody weaves together such intricate plans that he needs to lay it all out for someone once it’s clear in his head. And the way the 212th has been running their campaigns, Cody’s the one building the mazes and Obi-Wan’s the one running them, he’s the sword in hand, he can think through all of Cody’s plans as he explains them, think of exactly how he’d execute them once on the ground, has the experience to know what might go wrong and how, and that’s how they build their flawless battle plans together. By the end of it both of them will be half asleep over cups of cold Caf and tea at the table in Obi-Wan’s quarters but it’s worth it when they make it out of with less than half the predicted casualties.
And for Obi-Wan, it’s all about his fondness for teaching— Cody knows this. Which is what makes it so easy when Obi-Wan’s having a Force Crisis ™️, and Anakin or Quinlin or another Jedi is not readily available for him to talk to, for Cody to just listen. He’ll make Obi-Wan explain, teach him the small nuances of the Force, how it works, why it might be showing him horrifying visions of chips and lava and Anankin, and with each small, basic detail that Obi-Wan has to pause to explain he gets a small smile on his face because he loves teaching. And eventually Cody asks enough questions, brow furrowing and cocking his head to the side, that it strikes right to the core of it, the shadows that have been humming around in Obi-Wan’s brain, lurking. Cody strikes it with that light of his, and Obi-Wan just freezes and is just like “Oh. The chancellor’s a Sith”
And of course, Cody’s there to plan the assassination plot.
I read your reply on the Great Cranberry Can post about cranberry surprise. When my kid was a toddler they had a thanksgiving meal at preschool and she was asked what her favorite kind of pie was. She said quite confidently “cranberry sauce!” We have teased her ever since. I can’t wait to show her there is an actual cranberry sauce pie!!!!
Yes yes yes!
If it helps, my family still cracks up over one entry in the the Mother’s Day Cookbook that my sister’s kindergarten class created as a project one year - each kid wrote down what they THOUGHT the recipe was for their favorite dish made by mom. One child submitted “Babysitter’s Spaghetti” on the grounds that, and I quote, My mother cooks no food.
And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins
@moss-wizard of course this isn’t how we serve it!!
It has to be in a dish with much higher sides, so when we go to cut it and it tries to sliiiiiide away it doesn’t escape and blorp blorp blorp across mom’s nice tablecloth
SLICE YOUR CANNED BOGBERRY GOO INTO DISCS BEFORE SERVING, YOU FILTHY HERETICS.
NO. IT WILL BE SERVED IN PROPER CAN SHAPE, AND WILL HAVE ITSELF SCOOPED INTO WEIRD SHAPES THE WAY THE GODS INTENDED
YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, GOD-QUEEN-EMPEROR. AND TAKE YOUR CERVID STALKERS WITH YOU.
It’s supposed to be served in can shape with two discs already sliced and laying tastefully in front
I have consulted the scriptures and this is variation is still within the bounds of orthodoxy.
Mash the can shape up. We giving the table what they want, chaos in a dish, with a serving spoon.
Not to derail the escalating heresy, but what do dolphins have to do with cranberry bogs?
cranberry is served in its can shape in the can direction, not on its side but on its cylinder
Right but you guys know that ocean spray also sells like. Cranberries. Which you can use to make an actually edible cranberry sauce on the stovetop in 10 minutes of unattended cook time
actual cranberries? ew no thank you. The unprocessed chunky stuff is GROSS.
Look, in my house, we mix it with whipped cream and freeze it in a graham cracker crust for dessert!
Behold, my grandmother’s recipe for Cranberry Surprise:
For the crust, combine 2/3 cup crushed ginger snap crumbs (put them in a large plastic bag and crumble with a rolling pin, or a mug if you don’t have one) with 2 T. of sugar. Press into a 9" pie plate.
For the filling, pour a half-pint of regular whipping cream into a bowl, and beat until stiff. Mix in 2 T. of sugar and ½ tsp. of almond extract.
In another bowl, take a 14 oz. CHILLED can of jellied cranberry sauce and mash it with a potato masher if you’ve got one, or a fork if you don’t. (My mom bought me a potato masher specifically so I could make this dessert at holidays without having to borrow hers.)
Once the log is goo, fold the cranberry sauce into the whipped cream mix. Yes, it’s supposed to be THAT pink.
Pour the pink cream-and-cranberry mix into the crust and freeze for at least 24 hours. Cut and serve immediately upon removal from freezer.
American Horror Food is one of my favorite tumblr post types.
(I make it from real cranberries but if I decide to go with Goo Log, I mash it like the unorthodox godkiller that I am.)
I can only add that I worked in a deep freeze warehouse for a little bit when I was younger. The cranberries would come in loose around Halloween. This big machine would clean, sort, and dump them into 1000 lb wooden bins that would be forklifted and stacked to freeze in the warehouse.
One time, somebody lost control of a bin and broke it open. I would like you to picture a dozen warehouse workers slip sliding around on frozen cranberry ball bearings for hours, trying to clean them up, while you play Yakety Sax in your head. It was a nightmare.
Doesn’t everyone have a special cranberry-from-the-can serving plate and slice-cutting tool! What, are you all just living live Neanderthals?!?!
Oh my ZOD I love that
my brother is a culinary artist. one year he made some amazing cranberry sauce that nobody touched. the next year he made the same sauce, added a thickener, and set it in a ribbed can (he reused a pumpkin can iirc), and it was a hit.
we like the vague can-shaped fruit gelatin. i personally like it even more when it’s home-made.
Ah, in my house we serve this standing up on a plate, and we call it Invisible Can. It is not a holiday dinner without Invisible Can.
Okay but the dolphins tho
@oft-goes-awry Are you midwestern cause I’m from Minnesota and we do this. It’s the best way to have cranberries.
@mstrickster Noooooo, I’m from the Deep South, but I’ve come to realize there is a lot of overlap between the two regions when I comes to casseroles et al., and that overlap is Grandma learned to cook (or “cook,” as the case may be) and thoughts shit in cans was classy.
My grandmother in particular could make exactly three foods worth eating: cheese straws, pecan pie on the eye of the stove, and Cranberry Surprise.
Is the Surprise when you throw up or not?
No, it’s actually really good! Whipped cream and jellied fruit mixed together and frozen, what’s not to love?
After conferring with my sister to make sure, I can attest that my mom made this pie for thanksgiving when we were little, and I had totally forgotten about it! Thank you for the reminder @oft-goes-awry
And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins
@moss-wizard of course this isn’t how we serve it!!
It has to be in a dish with much higher sides, so when we go to cut it and it tries to sliiiiiide away it doesn’t escape and blorp blorp blorp across mom’s nice tablecloth
SLICE YOUR CANNED BOGBERRY GOO INTO DISCS BEFORE SERVING, YOU FILTHY HERETICS.
NO. IT WILL BE SERVED IN PROPER CAN SHAPE, AND WILL HAVE ITSELF SCOOPED INTO WEIRD SHAPES THE WAY THE GODS INTENDED
YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, GOD-QUEEN-EMPEROR. AND TAKE YOUR CERVID STALKERS WITH YOU.
It’s supposed to be served in can shape with two discs already sliced and laying tastefully in front
I have consulted the scriptures and this is variation is still within the bounds of orthodoxy.
Mash the can shape up. We giving the table what they want, chaos in a dish, with a serving spoon.
Not to derail the escalating heresy, but what do dolphins have to do with cranberry bogs?
cranberry is served in its can shape in the can direction, not on its side but on its cylinder
Right but you guys know that ocean spray also sells like. Cranberries. Which you can use to make an actually edible cranberry sauce on the stovetop in 10 minutes of unattended cook time
actual cranberries? ew no thank you. The unprocessed chunky stuff is GROSS.
Look, in my house, we mix it with whipped cream and freeze it in a graham cracker crust for dessert!
Behold, my grandmother’s recipe for Cranberry Surprise:
For the crust, combine 2/3 cup crushed ginger snap crumbs (put them in a large plastic bag and crumble with a rolling pin, or a mug if you don’t have one) with 2 T. of sugar. Press into a 9" pie plate.
For the filling, pour a half-pint of regular whipping cream into a bowl, and beat until stiff. Mix in 2 T. of sugar and ½ tsp. of almond extract.
In another bowl, take a 14 oz. CHILLED can of jellied cranberry sauce and mash it with a potato masher if you’ve got one, or a fork if you don’t. (My mom bought me a potato masher specifically so I could make this dessert at holidays without having to borrow hers.)
Once the log is goo, fold the cranberry sauce into the whipped cream mix. Yes, it’s supposed to be THAT pink.
Pour the pink cream-and-cranberry mix into the crust and freeze for at least 24 hours. Cut and serve immediately upon removal from freezer.
American Horror Food is one of my favorite tumblr post types.
(I make it from real cranberries but if I decide to go with Goo Log, I mash it like the unorthodox godkiller that I am.)
I can only add that I worked in a deep freeze warehouse for a little bit when I was younger. The cranberries would come in loose around Halloween. This big machine would clean, sort, and dump them into 1000 lb wooden bins that would be forklifted and stacked to freeze in the warehouse.
One time, somebody lost control of a bin and broke it open. I would like you to picture a dozen warehouse workers slip sliding around on frozen cranberry ball bearings for hours, trying to clean them up, while you play Yakety Sax in your head. It was a nightmare.
Living 20 minutes from Ocean Spray’s corporate offices this thread is cracking me up!
@oft-goes-awry I make the same pie as well. It’s so good!
In my house, there is always OS jellied cranberry sauce on my Thanksgiving and Christmas tables in a fancy glass dish with high sides, which I inherited from my grandmother that was ONLY used for cranberry sauce. Of course, the first 2 slices are nicely cut because we aren’t heathens on the holidays! But in my family, we also serve their whole berry sauce, which comes out of the can the same way but bumpy, which you smash up into another fancy glass bowl to serve.
@curiousmsmeg I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!?!? Everyone gets all sceptical about the pie, but it actually WORKS.
Fair warning, tho, the recipe card may say “Cranberry Surprise,” but my mom and I just call it “Cranberry Stuff.”
I always called it “Cranberry Pie”. People are missing out, aren’t they @oft-goes-awry!
And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins
@moss-wizard of course this isn’t how we serve it!!
It has to be in a dish with much higher sides, so when we go to cut it and it tries to sliiiiiide away it doesn’t escape and blorp blorp blorp across mom’s nice tablecloth
SLICE YOUR CANNED BOGBERRY GOO INTO DISCS BEFORE SERVING, YOU FILTHY HERETICS.
NO. IT WILL BE SERVED IN PROPER CAN SHAPE, AND WILL HAVE ITSELF SCOOPED INTO WEIRD SHAPES THE WAY THE GODS INTENDED
YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, GOD-QUEEN-EMPEROR. AND TAKE YOUR CERVID STALKERS WITH YOU.
It’s supposed to be served in can shape with two discs already sliced and laying tastefully in front
I have consulted the scriptures and this is variation is still within the bounds of orthodoxy.
Mash the can shape up. We giving the table what they want, chaos in a dish, with a serving spoon.
Not to derail the escalating heresy, but what do dolphins have to do with cranberry bogs?
cranberry is served in its can shape in the can direction, not on its side but on its cylinder
Right but you guys know that ocean spray also sells like. Cranberries. Which you can use to make an actually edible cranberry sauce on the stovetop in 10 minutes of unattended cook time
actual cranberries? ew no thank you. The unprocessed chunky stuff is GROSS.
Look, in my house, we mix it with whipped cream and freeze it in a graham cracker crust for dessert!
Behold, my grandmother’s recipe for Cranberry Surprise:
For the crust, combine 2/3 cup crushed ginger snap crumbs (put them in a large plastic bag and crumble with a rolling pin, or a mug if you don’t have one) with 2 T. of sugar. Press into a 9" pie plate.
For the filling, pour a half-pint of regular whipping cream into a bowl, and beat until stiff. Mix in 2 T. of sugar and ½ tsp. of almond extract.
In another bowl, take a 14 oz. CHILLED can of jellied cranberry sauce and mash it with a potato masher if you’ve got one, or a fork if you don’t. (My mom bought me a potato masher specifically so I could make this dessert at holidays without having to borrow hers.)
Once the log is goo, fold the cranberry sauce into the whipped cream mix. Yes, it’s supposed to be THAT pink.
Pour the pink cream-and-cranberry mix into the crust and freeze for at least 24 hours. Cut and serve immediately upon removal from freezer.
Oh, my family makes something similar: Cranberry Freeze. Same graham crust, and for the filling you mix whipped cream, cream cheese, a bit of vanilla ice cream, and cranberry sauce. For the past thirty years or so, we’ve substituted strawberries in heavy syrup with excellent results.
