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Back Pages: Josie and the Pie, with Diamonds

Posted in Josie, family, vacation on Feb 23rd, 2009

The Simmer Till Done management and advisory board – that would be me – is on a special-projects work break, so please enjoy these posts from the past, especially if they’re new to you.  And if you have a rerun request, by all means send it along.
First up: from July 2008, it’s a tale many [...]

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You Say Banoffi, I Say Banoffee

Posted in Lawrence, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes on Oct 26th, 2008

A tip of the baker’s cap to Modernemama from Beach House, who correctly identified yesterday’s mystery dessert as Banoffee Pie. Or is it Banoffi?

While standing in line at the coffee shop last week, I heard about this British dessert for the first time. As the Ancient Recorder of Obscure and Far-Fetched Sweets, I do not [...]

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Pie Puzzle

Posted in pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps on Oct 25th, 2008

Something freakishly delicious is coming.

Something with bananas and graham crackers,

homemade dulce de licious – I mean, dulce de leche.

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Josie and the Pie, with Diamonds

Posted in Josie, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer, vacation on Jul 23rd, 2008

Every August, the heat here ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape – we flee Kansas by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that [...]

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Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Posted in Lawrence on May 2nd, 2008

Other than the near-tornado we had last night (oh, Kansas) it’s been absolutely beautiful around here.

So pretty that when I walk to and from downtown, I’ve been playing nature photographer. When I first saw these birds with the flowering dogwoods and the blue sky, I was all Marlon Perkins and blah blah blah, I [...]

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