I sort of felt bad using the frozen Marie Callendar’s pie crust for the canned Libby’s punkin pie I made today, because my mom taught me how to make pie crust and she just had it nailed, she was so deft the way she pinched around the edge…you know. And when the fuck do I make a pie anymore? Never. Once a year, maybe. I just don’t have the muscle memory, or the desire to eat all that sugar every day for a week.
The other thing, I gave Jackson a choice: devil’s food cake or angel’s food cake? One is dark, one is light. One is round and solid, one is fluffy and has a hole in the middle: “So if you were made of food,” he reasoned, “you could use it as a halo.”
Exactly.
(Devil’s food it is.)
I dunno, we're kind of a pie-baking family. I'm on, like, the fourth pumpkin pie in the last month. There were some apple pies and berry pies in there, too, but pumpkin's the real mainstay.
We got these pumpkins from another planet growing in our yard; don't know where they came from – we certainly didn't plant them. They make awesome pies, though. Hmm, maybe they are from another planet, and have adapted to get inside and take over their hosts by… MUST BAKE MORE PIES! MUST GIVE TO FRIENDS!
But they're really tasty – can I bake one for you?
i'm always open to someone dropping by with a freshly made pumpkin pie. mrs. kennedy can tell you it wouldn't be the first time i've eaten a treat from a stranger.
Best (and biggest) pumpkin pie is at Costco, bar none. I'm a pumpkin pie FREAK and I get one each year just for me. $5.99.
David, you know what, I'll wait for the pumpkins to work their way down the coast. They'll eventually show up at a school bake sale. Although I bet you could send one to Monkey. Monkey, David. David, Monkey.
Suzy, I've sworn off Costco, my condo isn't big enough to hold all that toilet paper.
Look, I don't know if you're into the whole match-making thing, but if Jackson is interested in older women I have a 5th grader over here who likes guys with a sense of humor.
That kid is an (i"N"tuitive) (referring to the second letter in the myers-briggs personality classification). Meaning he will probably have a hard time understanding people who don't think outside the box. I like him already.