by jphilo | Mar 19, 2012 | Recipes
After a wonky weekend with no voice, my inner muse followed suite and clammed up. This morning I couldn’t think of anything to write about except for the blog readership ruining topics of nose-blowing and phlegm colors. Until the nearly finished, free download of family favorite pie recipes came to mind. Now that’s a post blog readers will flock to, even when the introductory paragraph mentions gross stuff like…
Well, you know.
The free download of the Philo Family’s Favorite Pie Recipes includes the instructions for a few vegetarian main dish pies, for a wide variety of fruit pies, and for Grandma Conrad’s Never Fail Pie Crust. The only pie crust in the world this cook can successfully make. If you don’t count Pillsbury Pie Crust from the box. Because it’s a box. Not a recipe. So it doesn’t count.
But I digress.
To download your free copy of the Philo Family Favorite Pie Recipes – all the pie recipes previously featured on this blog – go to the Free Stuff page. The name took days and days to create, so go ahead. Be impressed. And be prepared to be even more impressed in the next few months when more free downloads are added to the page.
The free stuff page.
Free writers’ stuff. Free faith stuff. Free tissue and phlegm analysis stuff. Hmmm, maybe not the last one. Unless a bunch of you leave comments begging for a page like that. Which probably isn’t gonna happen. Because you’re already downloading the recipes and firing up the oven.
Happy pie baking!
by jphilo | Nov 17, 2011 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
Only one week until Thanksgiving, and it’s hard to hold off the vittles talk until then. In the meantime, here are three mostly non-foodie thoughts for this chilly, sunny Thursday.
- Republican presidential candidates and bald eagles are circling all over my home state of Iowa. I think the bald eagles are the more majestic of the two. How about you?
- Our immediate family will soon consist of two Hawkeyes, two Buckeyes, and two Cheeseheads. The possibilities for new Christmas jammies are endless!
- My favorite pie flavor is cherry. What’s yours?
by jphilo | Nov 27, 2008 | Current Events
Today, our Thanksgiving group of nine did a formidable amount of food damage. After we nibbled on Chex Mix, the relish tray, cheese and crackers and then gorged on turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, broccoli, sweet potatoes, and cranberries.
The damage control component of the day was the half hour walk squeezed in between the main course and dessert. What else explains how nine people could belly back up to the table and eat fifteen pieces of pie liberally topped with whipped cream? Fresh air and sunshine is worth its weight in pie is what I say.
The way I figure things, if I spend every waking hour of the next two days walking outdoors at top speed, the damage inflicted over the past twenty-four hours might be reversed. Of course unless everyone eats all the Chex Mix and leftover pie while I’m gone, I’ll come inside and resume my hand to mouth existence immediately. And if they eat like that, they’ll be in terrible shape by the end of our holiday weekend.
Since I’m wholly unselfish woman, I’ve come up with a solution that cancels out my overeating without putting the rest of the family at risk: I take my share of the leftover pie and Chex Mix and eat it while pounding out a few miles on my sister’s treadmill.
The idea of having the fam fawning extolling my selfless concern is quite repellant. So I won’t mention my damage control plan to them. Instead, I’ll sneak into the kitchen, nab the last piece of strawberry-rhubarb pie and a quart of Chex Mix, and power up the treadmill.
The fam doesn’t ever need to know how I sacrificed for their health. It could ruin their Thanksgiving, and I love them too much to heap guilt upon them. So please, don’t tell them how blessed they are to have me in their midst. They never need to know.
