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Eating Your Oats
Eating Your Oats I love oatmeal. I especially love it steaming hot on winter mornings when I’m all tucked in with my feet up on the hearth in front of my wood stove and the sun is just peaking up over...
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Easiest Lemonade Ever
Easiest Lemonade Ever We’re having a heat wave. Now don’t laugh but for me hot begins at anything over 60F. I know that you probably are laughing. It’s ok. I can take it really. I jokingly say in my...
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Little Tasties
Little Tasties I think most all of us have either made these or eaten them. They are what you do with leftover dough scraps after a pie making session. My grandmother made them. I might venture to...
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Fourth of July Blueberry Pie
Fourth of July Blueberry Pie A Fourth of July Blueberry Pie is right around the corner…or maybe that should be just inside the curve of the pie pan. Blueberries have been my favorites since I was a...
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A Favorite Salad Dressing
A Favorite Salad Dressing I just had salad from my garden for lunch and it reminded me to share with you a favorite salad dressing. Over decades of gardening I can say that I’ve made my fair share of...
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A Crustless Quiche
A Crustless Quiche Every couple of weeks I gather around the table with some of the best women I know. Some I have known for thirty years and some for as short a time as five. Ostensibly we gather to...
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Gingerbread Scones
Gingerbread Scones It’s the time of year that holiday baking takes the center stage and our homes are full of the good smells coming out of the kitchen. Ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves…I love...
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Inventing the Wheel
Inventing the Wheel I thought I was so smart. I really did. I made a mug of coffee. It’s one of my guilty pleasures, the other major one being all the plastic wrap I use in pie making workshops. I...
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National Cherry Pie Day
National Cherry Pie Day Today, February 20th, is National Cherry Pie Day. I’ve never spoken with a pie maker who has any idea of who created this day but we all agree that it must have something to do...
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Scones for Royal Occasions
Scones for Royal Occasions Everybody is jumping on the royal wedding bandwagon. I haven’t paid too much attention to it, but believe me, when I say I think it’s lovely and charming when two people from...
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Nanabanana Cream Pie
Nanabanana Cream Pie A while ago, I opened one of those video ads that pop up on social media masquerading as an informative piece but turns out to be an infomercial selling something that’s purported...
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Sweet As a Peach Pie
SWEET AS A PEACH PIE No beating around the bush here. Peach Pie is my all-time favorite pie and making one is a summertime ritual for me. I simply can’t get enough of this pie during the season and...
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The Ritual of Making the Thanksgiving Meal and Recipe for Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
The Ritual of Making the Thanksgiving Meal and A Recipe for Pumpkin Chiffon Pie Early every Thanksgiving morning, my grandmother, Geeg, got up at what felt like the crack of dawn, came into the kitchen...
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Black Bean Torte
Black Bean Torte Last night, as I was going through a manila folder of mainly hand scribbled recipes, this one for Black Bean Torte showed up in a newsletter I had saved from 1994. It was from...
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Black Bean Torte Update
Black Bean Torte Update Yesterday was a quiet one at Pie Cottage. Tonight there will be another lovely holiday meal, and there’s still some of the black bean torte to share, the recipe from 1994 that I...
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Uncle Alphonso’s No-Fuss Paella
Uncle Alphonso’s No-Fuss Paella Today I’m doing laundry, folding clothes, and plumping pillows in the guest room for dear friends who are coming for an end of year visit. Then it will be back into the...
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Date Shake
Date Shake At the beginning of the health food movement in the early 1950’s, Kayser’s opened in Santa Barbara. It was one of the first health food stores, a trend that over the years became more...
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Recharging
RECHARGING This weekend past, I spent a few days recharging in a cabin out on the far reaches of the Washington coast. My dear friend Nancy and I used take our children there when they were little....
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BLACK BEAN CHILI AND CORNBREAD
BLACK BEAN CHILI AND CORNBREAD Black Bean Chili from Home Cooking with Kate McDermott (Countryman Press 2018) Andrew Scrivani Photo After a little break yesterday afternoon, it’s snowing again at Pie...
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My Mom’s Grasshopper Pie
My Mom’s Grasshopper Pie My mom made Grasshopper Pie and I loved eating it. My folks were teetotalers, so bottles of liqueurs and wine, that had been given to them as gifts over the years, were still...
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