Rain & a few PIE tips.......

We had the nicest rain (11/4...VOTING DAY)...it rained most of the night before and rained most of the voting day)
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I have just about torn the corners of my mouth with all the yawning I am doing.

I can never get a photo of RAIN DROPS on the pool water but I keep trying.

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”

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One of my very favorite things on the whole planet is a homemade 

COCONUT CREME PIE

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I've used Mr. Sweet's mother's recipe since 1981 and never looked for another.

HER mother*in*law gave the recipe to her when she was a young bride....

so the recipe is well over 200 yrs old.

Once, (shhh) I decided to add other ingredients to it like ....butter ♥

vanilla......♥

but they actually took away from the unique taste of an olden recipe.

(if you want the recipe, I'll email it to ya)

 So many people seem to have a fear of making a

MERINGUE for their pies.

It really isn't one bit hard and there's no SECRET to making an awesome meringue.

...it IS hard, however, to hold your mixer in one hand and try to take a picture of

those fast moving beaters with your other hand.

If there IS a secret to a luscious, pretty and generous meringue,

it's that XTRA EGG...

...if your recipe call for 3 eggs,

3 yolks for the filling and 3 egg whites for the meringue....

USE 4

 

The extra yolk will make the filling a little more luscious and rich...

and

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the extra white.....well.....THERE'S proof you get a very generous topping for your pie.

♥ "Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg and all those baking spices, I have one spice that's for sweets and that's PUMPKIN PIE SPICE..." ♥

                                                                                 Sandra Lee

I had two pieces before it ever got CLOSE to being cool.

No secret that it slices better....

makes prettier pieces of pie....once it is no longer even warm.

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Once it goes in the fridge, gets cold, gets set, gets ready to have another slice with a cup of hot, strong, delicious coffee.

it's all I can do to LEAVE IT ALONE.

Mr. Sweet is as bad as I am...we meet at the fridge.

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He was one of 5 children (stair-steps) and he said when his mother

made this pie, everyone got only one piece.

awwww...

I said how come she didn't make 2 pies and he said they never had enuf money to buy sugar and etc. so his mom had to make everything stretch as far as it would go.

Sooo, even tho he now gets as many slices as he wants,

I always leave extra filling so he can "lick the pan".........

and I always think of that little boy that sure would have loved another piece of his mama's pie.
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That pie's been in the fridge all night and part of the day...

Time to brew up a good cup of BLACK TEA
and
go for the gold....

full plate thurs.