Reasonable people can disagree.
I am particularly fond of Strawberry-Rhubarb.
I am a pecan fan myself...or bluebeery, as long as the berrys are fresh.
What? Don't you realize that you are never to leave the keyboard:
http://
seattletimes.nwsource.com...bloggers06.html
That's what we're (not) paying you for!
If you finish 30 posts per day, we'll let you go out, as long as you have a laptop w/ EVDO on at all times!
Maybe this kind of pie fight OK?
http://static1.firedoglake.com/
2...ristol_cake.jpg
Banana creme all the way.
i wanted to do a very clever thing
where i offered myself up as an arms dealer in the pie fights. each word in the comment would have been a link to a pie recipe i've posted on my blog, but those no fun jerks at haloscan bounced me for having too many links in the post. help yourselves to these recipes they are all country proven.
(hint, try the shaker lemon pie if you want some absolute heaven)
Well, what the hell good is an "Open Thread" if there's NO Pie!!! (I'm studying for a test to save my 4.0 from certain decrease.... but you made me hongry now... *rolley eyes*)
Okay so here a certain couple's favorite pie with a recipie by the "First Lad"-(
(I dunno what happened to my post there *blush* Again.)
Well, what the hell good is an "Open Thread" if there's NO Pie!!! (I'm studying for a test to save my 4.0 from certain decrease.... but you made me hongry now... *rolley eyes*)
Okay so here a certain couple's favorite pie with a recipie by the "First Lad"-(stolen from Drifty) in-waiting. Lemon Pie no less 
http://www.freecookingrecipes.ne...-chess-
pie.html
This is more of an inspirational pie like lemons/lemonade.... or pie! Not for throwing 
No pie fights? Okay. ::buries himself face-first into a delish lemon meringue pie::
i see your lemon chess pie and raise you one key lime pie.
'scuze me that's one key lime pie
Yum! 
After Jesse's previous post about Sara/Matt Jimmy/Ben..... I raise you one cheesecake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s...h?
v=skIlZflDs9Y
OR a round of beer in light of the 75th New Beer's Eve.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/0....eve/
index.html
My Dad made beer once when I was about 5. We capped the bottles and he put them away in the cabinets..... and in the morning there was glass and such all over the floor with the cabinet doors all open. He didn't try thaaaat again.
I'll try your Key Lime recipe this summer I think
simple simon met a pieman
selling poison pies.
said the pieman,
"why not try one"
as he brushed of the flies.
simple simon ate the pie
and died to his surprise.
.
http://enquirer.com/editions/200...1/01/06/
pie.jpg
hugs
messy hugs
and thanks to Jen and LM for you know what, you know where. *chomp*
waiting for the promised super gator....
How about we use the open thread to introduce ourselves and share some bio/geographical info? I'll start.
Me = Female, 30s, native NYer but in SoFla now, flaming liberal.
southern california, 8 miles from the mexican border. retired musician, aspiring chocolatier, dedicated libertarian minded libertine.
cheesecake? i just recently posted the
recipe from sardi's
one of my readers tried it and raved.
oh yeah, and i'm like old and stuff.
Pies? Here's a story about pies.
I used to live and work in Juneau Alaska for the National Marine Fisheries Service. My job meant traveling to Seattle and points south every few weeks for meetings and that sort of thing. There's only one airline between Seattle and Juneau (Alaska Airlines) and the schedule, especially in winter, is often inconvenient. While there are nonstops between Seattle and Juneau if you were unlucky with the schedule you'd end up on the 5 hour marathon "milk run" which would stop at Ketchikan, and Sitka before finally making it to Juneau.
If you didn't have a first class upgrade, food was usually pretty meager on the way up. And in the winter there were never any tourists, just regulars...business folk, fishermen, and government workers for the most part. Everyone knew everyone for the most part and knew how to get food.
At the Ketchikan airport it was popcorn. People would bounce off the plane to get fresh popcorn.
However at the Sitka airport it was pie. Some of the best pie I have ever eaten anywhere. The baker who works at the Sitka airport restaurant has to be one of the best pie bakers in the country. The Sitka layover was always just long enough to dash off the plane over to the restaurant to ask for pie. At which point the cashier would usher you to the back room where the pies were stored on big racks. Apple, Strawberry-Rhubarb, Cherry, Peach, etc. There was always a mad dash from the plane to the restaurant to snatch up boxed pies and under most seats on the way to Juneau there'd be a pie. Sometimes someone would buy a couple extra and give them to the flight attendants for serving and we'd have fresh pie served on the plane.
I was always partial to Strawberry Rhubarb and would always end up with one under my seat on the way home.
Since I followed my wife to Texas 5 years ago I'm still searching for pie as good as that served in the Sitka airport and I've not yet found anyplace in Texas that is the equal.
Anyway, by way of introduction, I'm a 44 year old male native Oregonian and former marine biologist now teaching HS science in Texas and raising 3 girls with my wife.
I'm eating some sweet potato pie my mom made right now.
Yummmm.
sure libertarian leaning liberal (or liberal leaning libatarian...i baskicly want the goverment to stay off my back and get on the back of big busniess) I'm probably the youngin here but getting old enough to no longer safly clam that (31, this is the first year that i wasn't the youngest member of my IT team...it was a shock). been in IL my entire life now in cenral grew up in northern and somehow talked a passadena girl into joining me out here. she got me back by talking me out of my "no more then two" stance with kids, three boys and a girl on the way (and assuming the doctor didn't lie to me, we are done )
oh and i love keylime as well.
Pecan pie! Followed by pumpkin pie. I was a picky eater until few years ago, and I never wanted to try pumpkin until I read in Mondo2000 magazine that it was a smart drug and a pie! Didn't make me smarter, but I'm damn glad I tried it.
That's my pie story.
I'm old too and this proves it.
Just like old Saxophone Joe
When he's got the hogshead up on his toe
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie
Listen to the fiddler play
When he's playin' 'til the break of day
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie
Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime
What do I care?
Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum
Call me for dinner, honey, I'll be there
Saddle me up my big white goose
Tie me on 'er and turn her loose
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie
I don't need much and that ain't no lie
Ain't runnin' any race
Give to me my country pie
I won't throw it up in anybody's face
Shake me up that old peach tree
Little Jack Horner's got nothin' on me
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie
Copyright © 1969; renewed 1997 Big Sky Music
Columbia Records
Live in PDX, member VFP chapter 72
Play in a band.
That's me on the Ric 12 string in tie dye. The Bass player's P bass was owned by the Bass Player of the Kingsmen and used to record "Louie, Louie". We opened for Country Joe many years ago and is our only claim to fame.
34 year old unemployed unix admin looking for a teaching gig in Alaska. Currently reside in the powderhorn park neighborhood of many happiness. As for politics; aspiring social anarchist who gets off on reading ancient history, mainly roman, greek, semitic, or egyptian since those are the most accessible sources to lay people.
Kenga,
Some disagreeable people can disagree reasonably.
50, AfricanAmerican, female, starting a business on a photoshopped shoestring, based in a tiny Tokyo apartment, pragmatic progressive, wondering why no one ever mentions the importance of fresh, warm peach cobbler with a scoop of Breyer's vanilla ice cream on top as central to our democratic discourse.
because darnit it just is.
I love pies but realize that I need discipline and therefore choose to take my calorie hits in the form of cheese and wine.
wondering why no one ever mentions the importance of fresh, warm peach cobbler with a scoop of Breyer's vanilla ice cream on top as central to our democratic discourse.
Living in Texas I have come to appreciate the importance of warm peach cobbler. Most definitely. However good peach cobbler should not be polluted with Breyer's. The only proper ice cream for peach cobbler is, of course, Blue Bell "homemade vanilla". Accept no substitutes.
http://www.bluebell.com/
hell is living in a country where houses don't have ovens...
I bake a mean apple pie -- it'll chew you up and spit you out, begging for more.
Vinegar pie is hard to beat, as long as you don't see it first.
(taste just like lemon pie)
So...how many of you out there are really starting to feel the pinch of inflation? I know I am, and when someone like me is majorly aware of inflation for more than just one reason, you know it's getting bad.
Just a few links for yah:
Must read:
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.c...israel-
and.html
Kurtzer, Obama's Surrogate, Issues Coded Assault on Israel Lobby:
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondo...el-
kurtzer.html
Wealth of information in this article:
http://www.richardsilverstein.co...oxman-fictions/
And my favorite pie? Pumpkin, of course. Du-uh! (Maybe I should go out and buy myself a pumpkin pie before that gets too expensive!)
So...how many of you out there are really starting to feel the pinch of inflation? I know I am, and when someone like me is majorly aware of inflation for more than just one reason, you know it's getting bad.
Other than at the pump, I definitely feel it when I load up on milk. Wow. With 3 girls and a wife who all drink milk we sure go through a lot of it every week. I usually buy organic and probably spend over $100/mo just on milk these days.
Kent:
Eggs are also getting expensive, from what I understand.
However good peach cobbler should not be polluted with Breyer's.
Kent, Kent (shakes head in dismay) while my respect for you hitherto has been boundless, you, in impugning Breyer's, have crossed the uncrossable line. which can't be crossed.
it is with sincere regret that I must insist on spoons at 40 paces at dawn.
Cheesecake, indeed, and maybe a Jerome Stout ice cream float to go with it...
I just had a nostalgia moment. It's been many, many years since I had a taste of Breyer's vanilla.
45-year-old software developer. Doing Java at a very nice place but I wish someone would hire me as a Mac developer -- I'm pretty good, you know.
Terri, terri, terri
Breyers is no longer the all-natural local Philly product that you probably remember.
Breyers is now owned by the giant Dutch conglomerate Unilever which has seen fit to "improve" on the classic Breyers. First, by shrinking the classic 1/2 gallon ice cream tub to a svelte 1.5 quart carton which they sell for the old 1/2 gallon price. And second, by adding Taro Gum as a thickening agent. Being in Tokyo you've probably missed the great Taro Gum controversy. Here's some info from the Daily Scoop, an ice cream blog
http://adailyscoop.com/2006/09/1...evers-response/
Blue Bell is still a family-owned and run operation in Texas. They own all their own cows and are so obsessive about quality control that they do all their own delivery driving and grocery store freezer stocking so no "untrained hands" have touched the ice cream before you pull it off the freezer shelf. That's one reason they haven't gone national. They don't want to outstrip their own delivery system. They are an absolute Texas institution but apparently haven't spread out of the south yet so you northerners may not have been introduced to Blue Bell yet. I had never heard of it before moving to Texas.
Sure you can find lots of super-premium ice creams around the country in those pretty little pint containers. But if you want an honest 1/2 gallon tub of ice cream (yes Blue Bell still comes in 1/2 gallon tubs unlike the other big corporate brands) then Blue Bell is damned hard to beat.
Related to pie and inflation, I paid $1 more for a bag of King Arthur flour than I did when I stocked up for holiday baking in December.
Eggs are also getting expensive, from what I understand.
Actually eggs are still astonishingly cheap. Not long ago my mother was telling me about raising eggs on the family farm in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Growing up as a girl in the early 1950s she packaged hundreds of dozens of eggs a week as her after-school job on the farm which they sold for 5 cents each or 60 cents/dozen.
These days I still see eggs in the grocery store for less than $1/dozen. That must mean that on an inflation-adjusted basis eggs are many times cheaper today than in the 50s.
I'm not sure why eggs are still so cheap compared to other farm products. But they really haven't seemed to have gone up like everything else.
So...how many of you out there are really starting to feel the pinch of inflation?
Feeling it bad. Would love to sell my home but the market is bad and no one is buying. I weigh every purchase and ask, "Do I really, really need this?" Won't buy it unless it's an absolute necessity. My job situation is good but my consumer confidence is in the toilet. Thank you, Bush.
Maybe I will make a bean pie this weekend
Bon vivant and man-about-town, idol to millions of screaming fans on the island of Madagascar, people often remark upon my resemblance to Michael Caine.
"You don't look a thing like him!" they invariably exclaim.
Ok, seriously, I was born in the exact middle of the Baby Boom, 1955, the year Charles Laughton's film Night of the Hunter hit the theaters.
Raised and spent most of my life in Nashville. Cinephile and MST3K fan. Long-standing love affairs with sf and fantasy, mythology, folklore, Oriental literature and samurai flicks, graphic art, history, science, and politics. Very definite Anglophilic streak, which would probably annoy my Scots-Irish ancestors no end.
Avid hiker, boater, and nature photographer. Married, with no children, one dog of indeterminate but extremely shaggy breed, and three cats: a Turkish Van male coming up on his 15th birthday, a male Maine Coon Cat who may be about 3 (all of our pets are rescues), and a small, middle-aged tortoiseshell who has the males completely subjegated.
Taught myself programming in my early 30s, dBase in all its variants (starting on a Kaypro 10, no less), C, C++, and some other weird shit nobody remembers. Currently making a living with Java, SQL, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, etc. Mostly GUI design, but I also get to do some back-end coding with Java.
In sum, as a lyricist I admire once put it, "A much-outdated remnant, of a much-outdated style."
Mid to late 50's information security geek. Former Unix admin and mathematician. Presently unemployed, thanks to a bunch of hopeless dumb asses who decided that what goes up will never, ever come down.
Yeah, I used to work for a bank which was one of the largest players in the home mortgage market.
Note to self. Add the following item to your list of "get the hell out of Dodge" criteria:
*) The executive management decides to repeal the law of gravity.
That list is getting very, very long these days.
Kent, say it ain't so.
hangs head in dazed confusion: another childhood icon bites the dust.
my Daddy used to take his little girl to the local ice cream parlor in St. Albans and I will never forget the black and white checkerboard floor and the deep voices of the men talking about the real world and treating 'the Rev's' little girl like a little lady, a princess and an equal, all at once...
so you can see why I love the memory of Breyers...
we're heading to Netroots Nation in Austin, will see if Blue Belle is available, and report back in....
Loveandlight inflation is the reason i moved to the armpit of america...I can walk to work, clsoe to farms, cheraper houseing...and picked a college twon so my kids can get a good education (and the twon is rather liberal as central IL gose). about 3 years ago I jsut couldn't see how suburbia was goign to be sustainable for my family.
kent: as much as i despise the mans politics, i have to admit that oberwise makes damm good ice cream.
Ok how many of us are IT geeks...remember PHP and MySQL web applications for dummies desk refferance is a GREAT book, you all need a copy or five
when my next one comes out I will makes sure to push it as well (we are in tech edits right now, PHP secuirty book for adison wesly)
hey stromcrow if your inter5ested drop me a line (wrballad with a google mail address) and I can get you in touch with my agent...you don't get rich writieing tech books, but it aint bad, adn well if I can get published
Stormcrow oh and aobut three years ago I fled banking for insurance...i wonder if its time to move on again (if know one owns anything whatas to insure?)
it seems prety stable for now.
Note to self. Add the following item to your list of "get the hell out of Dodge" criteria:
*) The executive management decides to repeal the law of gravity.
That list is getting very, very long these days.
I recall that time that I said to you that this country's other defining sin along with hypocrisy is narcissism. I guess you are actually more intimately acquainted with this fact than I am! I would suppose that's because I've always been pretty low on the totem pole, but at the same time you don't have to be very much higher up than yours truly to start encountering some pretty serious levels of rot and stink, I would imagine.
in the interest of keeping a very fun open thread going (all this good stuff and no trolls, gotta love it) since you were talking about home brewing experiences i thought it would be fun to post my ginger and root beer recipes. i got clean and sober fifteen years ago, and i take my soda fountain seriously.
if you've never tried the real home article of these things let me say, you just don't know what you've been missing. folks back east (especially western pennsylvania) also do some good stuff with birch beer but home made root beer will have you thinking that you've cheated yourself your whole life.
i agree that blue bunny is the superior ice cream of the moment. but, i'm a country boy who is mostly inclined to serve somebody a root beer float where the root beer and the ice cream are home made. that's how we roll out here in the sticks. besides, when it's a hundred and twenty degrees outside and the nearest grocer is a twenty minute drive, storebought ice cream just isn't an option.
never tried a homemade rootbeer..worht a shot...i jsut get so little tiem to dig out the brew kit anymore.
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