Cherry, Apple & Banana Creme (There was a Pumpkin pie and a steel bowl chilling in the freezer for whipped cream too, but the kids woke up before I did and had a Vitamin A-heavy breakfast :rolleyes: ).
Mom REALLY wanted a daughter. Instead, she got me. “No matter”, thought she, and she made sure I would turn out to be a god wife–all the home-ec stuff: sewing, cooking, cleaning–the whole scmear. Dad compensated and gave me his crafts: auto mechanics, home improvement (indirectly: I learned a LOT from his mistakes) and the secret family BBQ sauce recipes–the joys of which, because the wife & kids don’t eat the flesh of creatures, are witheld from the world. I just can’t eat BBQ in that kind of quantity, and it’s no fun to drink that much beer alone all day long–BBQ people will understand that.
So anyways, Mrs. Montoya can’t cook. Well, she can make tea like nobody’s business and her pumpkin muffins would draw a major international invasion if any of them ever made it out of the house. Lucky for us, and the rest of the state, that our home is infested with pumpkovores. So I’m the one who does the cookin. Now, the wife is also a health nut so she suffers me but little in the way of ingesting the confections I so dearly love to confect. I therefore grace my coworkers with my labors from time to time just so I keep my skills honed.
Today they got pies. Except for 2 or 3 who knew beter, everyone asked me to give their compliments to my wife. Sexist jerks.
El hubbo is a much better baker than I could ever hope to be. His legendary caramel-apple pie is heaven in a pie dish, lemme tell ya. All-butter crusts, some sort of caramel made with Southern Comfort, brown sugar and cinnamon covered apples…orgasmically delicious.
I made an lattice-topped apple tart yesterday. It was good. I’m learning.
We both bake from scratch; no canned filling or store-bought pie crusts in our house!
Hehe…this was funny to me because I had the same breakfast today! I got up and looked around for breakfast…“hmmm…cereal, eggs, toast…ooooohhhhh…pumpkin pie!!”
Warm blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream for me, please. Don’t have any? Maybe some lemon meringue pie, hold the meringue. Weird, I know. My only pie anecdote comes from a man who resides at the nursing home where I do volunteer work. His appetite is amazing, and pie figures high on his list. It’s a dark day indeed for him when pie is not the dessert for lunch AND dinner.He told me one day, “I only like two kinds of pie-hot and cold!”
My husband’s got a craving for cherry pie, and can’t find any pre-made. Wrong time of the year, I tell him, but he continues to seek.
Apple and pumpkin pie are autumn’s glory. But who eats their apple pie with cheese any more? Everyone thinks I’m odd, because I still do. Apple and cheddar just go so well together, and vanilla ice cream’s lovely, but too sweet.
My mother used to say
And she made homemade pie, too, with lovely pasty. I bought some lard for the first time in my life, because Christmas has put me in a baking, if not a shopping/decorating/doing cards mood. But I’ve never made a pie from scratch. Mm…pie. Rhubarb pie.
You must, must, must try lemon curd . It’s like lemon merengue without the pesky merengue. It’s also available jarred from specialty shops. I just discovered it, and it’s opened new worlds of citrusy goodness to me.
Pie - I’ll take pecan, please. Or strawberry. That caramel apple one looks mighty tasty, though!
When we lived in our old house, we had a pie cherry tree in our front yard. I still have cherries in the freezer from our last two bumper crop years, and although they’re three and four years old, they’re just as tasty as when they were fresh. We’ll have to plant a cherry tree here soon, before we run out of old stock.
I made a cherry pie for Thanksgiving, but since the oldest bag of cherries was two quarts instead of one, I made a second pie and put that in the freezer. I plan to pull it out and bake it the next time Mr. Legend, who never gets to the leftover pie before the kids do, mentions cherry pie in a wistful tone of voice.
Inigo- Glad you are back and doing well, I thought of you whilst catching a rerun of TPB on VH1 the other night. A shame the little Montoyas reached the pumpkin first, but their eyesight may have just improved dramatically.
My own baking adventure from last week… chocolate torte with a mousse type frosting that the ladies at work put a hurting on. Whoever mentioned rhubarb pie must end that talk now because I have a crazy craving for strawberry- rhubarb pie. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find decent fresh strawberries in December… in Ohio… at this time of night? Must visit Jungle Jim’s now…
