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 […]
CAMEO APPEARANCES
CAMEO APPEARANCES Yesterday I receive a comment from Amy W on the post just before this one. She says,“You’re like Marie Kondo of the internet. Next you’ll be folding Facebook nicely into a drawer.” The image of Facebook, folded oh so neatly and placed just so in a drawer, has me in stitches. Thank you […]
Streamlining
Streamlining In the ongoing saga of Kate streamlining her online life, I present “Getting off of social networks you do not remember signing up for.” Last night after receiving an email that someone “likes” a post of mine on Ello, I scratch my head wondering, “Ello? What the heck is that?” I go to the […]
Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage The next Pie Camp begins this afternoon and there are new additions to the cottage to greet campers. For you, my excitement of two new stainless steel prep tables may feel kinda uninteresting or ho-hum, but let me tell you, these tables are a big deal. I’ve been thinking about taking the plunge […]
Irish Oatmeal
Irish Oatmeal It’s great to be home. Sweet Gretapie with her tail a-wagging, and Mr Fez purring and rubbing up against my legs, greet me as soon as I walk in the door. The morning after, Duncan pops in to welcome me home. Later, I run into folks I know when I venture into town. […]
Ireland: A Field Trip to Inismor
Ireland: A Field Trip to Inismor A Galway man asks if I have been to Ireland before. I tell him fifty years ago, with my mother, after my father passed away. He gives me a big hug to welcome me home when he hears my last name. He asks where I am next heading. I […]