I got'er done..lol

I had to do a little touch up of the Sistine Chapel, I really wanted to bake you a cake..I will.... really, when did you say you needed it?

I was gonna bake you a pie because I like your face..but ...I ..I  had   to climb.. Mt. Everest,  yeah,  and.and.. then I hadda go to school.yeah..yeah that's it,  that's the ticket..I was gonna !

 My good intentions have wanned on many occasions.  

cream filled choc.cupcakes

I  believe it (my good intentions) happened when I couldn't give more of me..when my knee started failing a few years back and I just couldn't function like I used to.  
It started when I had taken some orders, one for a wedding cake and another for a  large function for some finger type desserts scheduled for the very next day. What was I thinking, obviously I wasn't..I was trying to please everyone.  I paid dearly for that. 
Cloning is way underrated, I didn't have another me.  I was pushed to the melting point ( it was hot out) even though I orchestrated each movement...but I got tired, I hurt and I got frustrated.  Things seemed to take a turn sometime after that...and then the "barn door was opened for  a choice few turning my  "good intentions"  into a field day with every cake I said or thought I was gonna bake.

Marble Cake-Mango/Blueberry filling
Cream
Cheese frosting

Evidently they had been salivating from lack of baked goods I didn't produce.


Let me say this, I've discovered  baking is something I like to do when I want to do it and if I have time, it doesn't hold court over me and no amount of cajoling or butter is going to make me want to bake. I used to bake like a fiend and at one time had hoped to be a pastry chef--can you say passionate..I had IT, but I do it because I want to.  


Yesterday I wanted to, I started making cakes...and the day of I was gonna ...has just ended.  I hope to not say I'll do something unless it is "gonna" happen. lol. I can only hope.

white cake, pineapple,
coconut, w.cream

I'll be delivering them tomorrow, I don't care if they are on diets, I don't care if there is enough to go around or too much, I'm doing this to settle a score and a fun one at that.  I still have one more item to make, a pie..pumpkin no less..in February, doesn't seem right..
Do I think the teasing will stop?
 No, not from this crowd,  not a bit. 




BTW, I delivered the goodies...and shock was written on their faces.. giggle giggle...

Who's in a Pie?

Yesterday, I spent the better part of the day baking pies for an upcoming BBQ.  It's been quite a while since I've done this because the last 2-3 years I 've been unable to stand for long periods of time. I accomplished that task quite well, my knee is working great.  My patience is another matter, I forgot how time consuming pies were.  I was a little restless, but hours later I made 4 pies and was really hoping to add a 5th but wasn't about to dirty another dish.  

By 4pm I had washed all the dishes and the last pie was cooling.  

Yeah!

I have learned through the years, no matter what I plan on making, most generally it takes a turn and morphs into something else entirely.  Like the winter scarf I was making for a friend, it was suppose to be a surprise.  The surprise was on me, it ended up in the shape of an L instead of one long scarf.  Good thing his last name started with an L.  We laughed about that for days. 

 I did end up with 2 blueberry pies and a peach, the other one was another story only because the blackberries I bought were terrible, they are going back from whence they came.

I don't understand how the women in these baking and cooking blogs do it.  Stopping to take photos step by step.

   Not that it was difficult, it's just tedious. 

( If anyone is interested in how I made these pies go to Tasty Kitchen for the recipe)

I loved my pie baking, it's an end result that tastes good but never turns out the way I'd like it  in looks or it isn't usually pretty. I'd call that a future goal. 

I do have other plans with some miniature bakers this summer, we will be creating some good times as well as some amazing memories.  I'm sure there will be some Kodak moments, a term almost extinct in itself.

Elizabeth and Taryn

About..a lot of years ago I read a book of a woman who was born of French parents that moved to the USA.  All her life she was raised on Tarts, not pie.  Something in her made her curious for pie, so on a trek across the USA to her final destination in NY where she was moving she decided she would be in search of pie.  

The title is "American Pie" by Pascale Le Draoulec

Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads 

If you get the chance pick it up, it's a great read.

Oh and I'll take one
Eve with a Lid and a Cup of Joe