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Oh Christmas Trees!
Christmas trees atop an apple pie. Made with McIntosh apples, my favorite apple for baking pies and making applesauce. Using my Mom’s recipe. All set to be served.
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Blueberries
I’m watching both the progress the blueberry blooms are making as well as the calendar. Watching the blossoms grow and mature. Watching the weeks go by on the calendar. Right now in early April there are only tight buds on the many bushes. And it’s hard to say since this is weather related and as…
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Pie Crust
Pies make the world go round. And one basic thing is common in nearly all pies. The crust. Many different recipes. Not for ME. I use one recipe that I got from my Mom and I stick with it. No sense in tangling with perfection. Here’s the recipe that I use without fail. Memorized since…
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Cherry Custard Pie
George Washington’s birthday was just a few days ago. A celebration took place in my kitchen and the end result was a cherry custard pie. Not my usual pie and certainly not my usual CHERRY pie. But I’d say it was quite a success. Another of the household would prefer the recipe for cherry pie…
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In Praise of Blueberries
In my yard I’ve got a good number of mature blueberry bushes. Twelve? Fourteen? Enough that I can stock my freezer with loads of quarts of luscious berries to last throughout the year. And the birds? They’re welcome to their share. I love that the berries entice them. Of the birds that come to enjoy…
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Pie
Such strange times. Staying home ALL the time. Just me and my dear husband in the mountains in the middle of the forest. He’s able to focus. Cutting down trees that have grown up too close to our cabin. Pulling out his N gauge train set from long ago. I on the other hand am…
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Pi or Blueberries
This pan will do the job of representing two words: pi and pie. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and this pan is a circle. A Pie is usually a sweet, baked good which often is cooked up in a pan such as this. Many people look to me as a pie…
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A Bush To Love
I’m in love with a bush that’s growing in my yard. Actually I have 14 of these bushes growing along the edge of my front porch, bordering the vegetable garden, and creating a shrub island by the wood shop. I can’t recommend them highly enough. Here in the mountains of central Virginia, they are a…