It’s messy.
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No, it’s BEYOND messy. That’s the secret — it takes 4 days to clean up the kitchen and the house from a gargantuan pie-making session!
[2]The foil pie plates are because I am baking for a contest.
Goal: 6 pies.
Deadline: Bedtime.
Start time: 3 p.m.
Hurdles: Kids arriving home from school, making dinner for the family, etc.
[3]Cabinets are open, drawers are open (somehow, I can’t seem to close things when I have a big project going on!), recipes on the counter, pie dishes strewn about…
[4]I love this photo above because it shows the whole gamut — bowls of ingredients at the ready (pecan halves, chopped pecans, Health bar bits), eggs, half-filled-out entry forms, recipes, some flowers to brighten things up (if I could even see them in the midst of all this), and the all-important glass of wine! Pie baking goes better with wine. 🙂
[5]Oh yeah, where are those 2 pies going to go? The ones that need to be kept in the refrigerator?
[6]My moody little Lemon Raspberry Pie, ready for action, but alas, no ribbon for this one! That’s OK. It tasted GREAT!
[7]It’s always interesting to fit the pies in the car to get them there. And a bit of a an anxious ride on the way. I think I drove as if I had a new baby I was bringing home from the hospital. You remember that?
The result of all this chaos?
5 ribbons! (You can read more about it here [8].)
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