Hap-Pie New Year
Hap-Pie New Year! I hope this is the best year yet for you and yours and one full of happiness, health, prosperity and pie.
I turned in the final manuscript for Art of the Pie on Monday to my editor. What an amazing feeling to press the send button after over a year of writing, editing, recipes, and photos. Speaking of which, I saw the final photos from Andrew Scrivani and they are incredible. He culled out the best of 4500 shots from 8 days of shooting both in New York and at Pie Cottage. What an experience that was!
Right now, I’m re-learning what it’s like to do something other than heading straight for my computer each morning to write and edit. Yesterday I did a pie-by with a pear-apple pie (just add a few pears into the filling), and then I attended a fruit tree pruning demonstration. I’m making lists of fruit trees to plant and seeds to start for the new garden. Everything will need to be able to go into a pie filling and since I make both savory and sweet pies, there will be a good variety of edibles right out my door.
Oh, and I’m hoping to have chickens too. When I was living in West Seattle a few years back, I inherited the owner’s three chickens. What amusingly wonderful birds they are. I loved the fresh eggs they supplied for custard pies and quiches.
I don’t think I showed you some of the photos of the incredible deck that Duncan built for me this fall. My old deck had reached the end of it’s useful life and after putting my foot through it a few times it was time to retire it. As you can see in the pics, Gretapie was overseeing the project from beginning to end. Now, safely walking out the doors to this beautiful space makes Pie Cottage feel huge!
My resolution this year is to be even happier than last year. That’s been my resolution for a number of years now and I become happier with each passing year.
My motto this year is Choose Love, Not Fear. Now, I’m off to the kitchen to make another pie to give away and hopefully make someone’s day a little brighter. 🙂
Life is good, my friends!
Kate your new deck is beautiful!!!!! Congratulations on completing your book…..I can’t wait to buy one. I also cannot wait until I can bake pies everyday and give them away…….just a few more months and I will be able too! Happy New Year and thank you for making me a better pie maker. It is so satisfying!!!!!!! ro
Thank you Rosalie. I can’t wait to hold a copy of my very own in my hands, too. Make pie, and be happy!
I love your motto – I have one too that I found on a Life is Good Shirt that I just purchased in Fort Lauderdale – Make Pie, Not War!
That is fabulous, Belinda. I have not seen that one but I’ll keep my eyes open for it. It’s pie-fect!
So Happy for you Kate! Can’t wait to purchase your book as well!
Janet
(Florida, NY)
Thank you, Janet. Everyday I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful life. Watch for the book in the fall of 2016. OMGosh, I can finally say the fall of THIS year!
Wowser. I can hardly wait. When is your new book coming out? Who is the publisher?
All best and happy pie-ing.
Irene
Thank you Irene! Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Artisan Pie Making and Life is to be published Fall 2016 (just in time for apple pie season) by The Countryman Press/W.W.Norton.
Kate – Happy New Year to you! I am so excited about your upcoming book. One of my life goals (resolution for life not necessarily 2016) is to make it out there to one of your pie retreats. Wishing you all the best,
That will be a very hap-pie day for both of us! Have a wonderful 2016. ?