Sunday, September 16th, 2012
Summer just won’t quit. I see you, red leaves…you’re dropping everywhere. We noticed a bunch of trees in front of church that are suddenly bright yellow. And yet summer’s holding on so I’m painting my toenails neon pink one last time. And I made a pie.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012
My family came for a lovely visit, and we did a lot of eating. As it should be, I think.
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
Somehow, this year, the blog has escaped my usual brand of winter citrus crazy. This doesn’t mean I didn’t go citrus crazy…you should see my refrigerator right now. There are two varieties each of oranges and grapefruits and at least one lingering lemon. It’s safe to say the fruit drawer is full! Which didn’t stop me from buying the world’s largest bag of local apples for $5 last weekend…but I digress.
Ryan wanted his Mama’s lemon icebox pie for his birthday. It’s a family recipe and I’d never made it before…and really never eaten it before, either! So we got on the phone and figured it out. Apparently I was a little too thorough in spreading and smoothing out the meringue on top, but other than that, it turned out perfectly. Super quick and delicious!
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
I’ve been behind this week. Behind on work, on working out, on baking, on blogging, on household chores. Sometimes you just get behind, right? And it’s easy to focus on the tasks mounting on your to-do list, the overflowing inbox, the dirty dishes in the sink. We’re all guilty of this; it’s human nature, pure and simple.
These things grew dim for me this week, as I suspect they did for many others. This week I, along with hundreds of others in the food blog community, was captivated by the death of fellow blogger Jennifer Perillo’s husband, Mikey. Mikey died of a sudden heart attack, leaving behind Jennifer and their two small girls. I don’t know Jennifer, and honestly had never read her blog before this week, but my heart has broken for her all week. And last night, I learned that a dear childhood friend of mine just lost a cousin to a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Life is so utterly fragile and short.
Jennifer wrote a beautiful, heartbreaking post asking that those who wished to help her in some way do so by making peanut butter pie (Mikey’s favorite) today, and sharing it with their own loved ones. I thought this was a wonderful idea — realistically there’s nothing most of us can physically do for her, and nothing we can offer will diminish her pain. But we can make pie, and we can show love to those close to us. I don’t know of anything more important than that.
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
It’s that time of year again. Berries of all kinds are getting cheaper and prettier and I end up making multiple fruit-related impulse buys every week (I know, I really live on the edge), but for me the main food event of the summer is cherries. I love them dearly and though one can occasionally find some at a fancy market at odd times of the year, there’s something so different about true summer cherries. I fully understand that their growing season is short and that the growing process is tedious and difficult, so when I see their gorgeous crimson hues in the markets come June or July, I can’t help but bring home as many as possible.
I can very easily eat myself sick on fresh cherries alone, but I love the magic they create in the oven just as much. Desserts baked from fresh cherries are worlds apart from anything made with cherry pie filling from a can (although that’s tasty, as well). They make everything velvety rich and delicious, and need so little embellishment!
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