Another late August, another juicy Summer Fest finale. For last year’s Tomato Week – which, I recall, also featured sweltering heat and flagging ambition – I cranked up the oven and rolled dough spirals and generally made things as hard as possible. Did I learn my lesson? You be the judge. Better yet, let’s have [...]
Posted in blogging, fruit desserts, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer on Aug 18th, 2010
Have you seen the movie Waitress? It came out in 2007, but I never forget a movie in which pie takes a starring role. Keri Russell plays Jenna, a small-town diner waitress with a problem – she’s pregnant. And unhappy. She doesn’t love the baby’s father – her husband Earl – but does love her [...]
It’s the last Summer Fest cross-blogging event, and this final week is all about tomatoes. The most joyous snack in the garden, right, the easiest slice of summer? Certainly, one can brush off a sun-warmed tomato and bite down right there, right there in the garden, like a drippy red apple. Unless you are me, [...]
Posted in fruit desserts, Kansas on Aug 4th, 2009
“Ginger Peach Pan-what?” Josie was howling. “You’re doing something called Ginger Peach Pandowdy?” Why yes. Yes I am. And then my daughter fell off the chair laughing. And then from the floor, faux-hillbilly. “Paaaan-dowdy!” Very funny. Yes, it’s called Pandowdy, and yes, Ginger Peach sounds like she’s waiting tables at Dollywood, and yes, it’s the [...]
