Winter break had me two steps away from turning into Jack Nicholson in The Shining. The snow paired with the dangerously freezing temperatures squashed my list of fun outdoor activities to do with the family and left me grasping for any excuse to get the kids out of the house (I wanted to stay IN […]
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Every so often, I open my inbox to a message that says, “Do you sell your pies?” My answer is always the same – no. In every response, I go on to explain that I will gladly make pie for anyone, I just don’t accept money. This inevitably leads to an uncomfortable exchange, with the […]
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Let’s face it. Traditional pumpkin pie is in the “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” category. Every Thanksgiving I embark on yet another futile effort to find THE pumpkin pie. You know where it is? On the back on the Libby’s pumpkin can. Sure, go ahead and roast your own pumpkin or get all […]
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When planning my Thanksgiving dessert table, I like to add hand pies as a nice way to change up the choices. Slices of pie are required of course, but when you have a crowd, hand pies offer a great alternative without the fuss of cutting and plating. Reasons you should make hand pies: If you […]
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My host son is a pie fanatic. He would eat a pie everyday if I let him. In fact, twice now he has taken a whole pie to school for lunch. If he appreciates one thing about America during his year here, at least I know that pie will be towards the top of the […]
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Hygge. It’s all the rage in my house right now. Pronounced, Hoog-ah, but not really because it’s impossible to write it phonetically and make it sound right, it is the Danish word for the feeling of coziness. Hygge goes beyond coziness, though. It seems to be a word that the Danes use to explain warm feelings […]
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Pie Crust Rolling Hack My pie crust recipe has remained unchanged since forgoing shortening several years ago, so I think of my pie-making as unchanged. Sagi (my fiancé and the man behind all things tech at Pie Eyed) found and edited a pie video that we shot last year revealing that growth (or at the […]
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“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.” A framed StoryPeople print with this quote should hang […]
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Reach out. Roll balls. That was the tag line for my New Year’s resolution in 2015. I had slipped into a terrible habit of not proactively reaching out to friends and getting the ball rolling on plans. I was either the recipient of an invitation where I joined in the fun, or text strings would […]
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“Expect Miracles”. That’s been the theme of my last few months. It’s also the tag line of some soap I just purchased. Recently, the rational, grounded me has been replaced with a version of myself that has become interested in quick fixes, silver bullets and magical solutions to all of my problems. On the surface, […]
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Sweet Surrender If the sweetest bit of surrender is inherent in pie baking, Sunday’s peach pie required downright capitulation. My plan was to make a lattice crust peach pie. I’m a huge fan of multi-fruit pies (or mashups as Emily calls them), but am so thrilled with the new bounty of local peaches in my […]
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Summer fruit is hitting the markets and I am in pie heaven. There are so many beautiful choices now and the combinations to put into a pie crust are endless. If I wrote a recipe for every fruit pie I made, you would see that the foundation for each one is the same. So, rather […]
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