VENTING Unless it is a pie top, I don’t vent often. Perhaps that is what I should do right now…make a pie with vents on top, or weave a lattice on top. But today? Right now, I am so frustrated that I fear I cannot even set foot in the kitchen. What happened you ask? […]
Rabbit Rabbit
Rabbit Rabbit Yes, I say it when awakening this morning. “Rabbit Rabbit” ensuring, hopefully, good luck all month long. It’s a superstition in Britain and North America, and I’m sure we can all use a little extra good luck. Right now, I’m in the trenches on
Flash Sale
Flash Sale! I just went over to Amazon and saw that Art of the Pie is the #1 Best Seller in Dessert Baking right now and the Kindle edition of Art of the Pie is being offered for the screaming hot deal of just $2.99. I have no idea how long the sale is going […]
Break Day
Break Day Today is a break day for me…well, sorta. If you know me, and you figure that this will last maybe an hour at the most, you are right. After a week of making more pies using half and half and heavy whipping cream than I care to count, my scale and waistline concur […]
Elderflowers
Elderflowers Summer began last weekend and on that first lovely day I picked elderflowers. This is something I had never done but for years I had wanted to. A few weeks earlier, I texted my friend Crystie Kisler, the farmwife who heads up all things at Finnriver Cidery in Chimacum just one hour east of […]