Queens

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Pie!

#20

You may think that I’ve made a pie before and I have. So why is it on the list? Every year at Thanksgiving I make a pumpkin pie. Now anyone that makes pumpkin pie knows it’s pretty simple. My brother Zach and I go to town on the pie after dinner. I decided to be a bit more adventurous and make an legit pie from scratch.

First of all I don’t cook. I live by myself and my job doesn’t allow me to cook on a regular basis. I’m really familiar with the various delivery places near the office. When I’m actually at home, I just throw something together. Pasta is my main dish and luckily being a long-distance runner, this comes in handy a lot.

I decided to make a strawberry rhubarb pie. I haven’t had rhubarb pie since I was a kid and thought it would be a good choice. I figured my mom would appreciate being a part of my 30 list and asked her to assist in the pie making. On Easter Sunday, my brother Levi and sister Em made our way to our mom’s. Now I asked my mom if I should bring a recipe and she said no; she had one.

We almost couldn’t make this pie since mom was unsuccessful in finding rhubarb. Luckily we stopped at Tops in Skaneateles and they had some. Vegetable oil was also missing and we had to quickly grab some—after I had begun to make the pie crust. Mom cut up the rhubarb and Em cut up the strawberries. Levi drove to Tops. So as you can see it was a team effort.

A couple of hours later, we all tried a slice. And it was yummy. Some of the filling had oozed out, but still delicious. We brought some back to my dad’s and my kid sisters also tried some—after they finished their dinner of course. Too bad we didn’t have vanilla ice cream.



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