National Pie Day | December 1

National Day Calendar ^ | December 1, 2022 | Staff

[rlmorel]

Ah, yes! Moody's! My wife and I stop there in our travels...

Love it. I love Maine. I could live there, but probably only up North. Too many Lefties from Belfast on down.

Last time we were in Belfast, my wife went shopping, and I took a folding chair and a book, when down to the park near the water, and sat there for a few hours reading my book.

I was at least 10-15 feet on the grass away from the walkway, and two Karens castigated me for not wearing a mask! Then, when my wife called me to pick her up, as I was packing my chair, I had some bearded dipstick with his wife come at me for owning a Subaru instead of an American car.

I was so dumbfounded, I couldn't speak. My pat response whenever I get that is that I will be damned if I spend a single penny that might go to the American automobile unions, who give huge sums of money to elect people who hate both me and the country I love, but I think I just stood there with my mouth open.

They have this sign in town, which didn't surprise me at all:

In Maine, they have Ranked Choice Voting, and lots of Leftists. Far north, where we were staying during the "pandemic", nobody wore masks back then, and there were Trump signs and flags. If I ever move up there, I will go as far north as I can.

[rlmorel]

LOL, I am surprised my wife even lets me make the ones I do.

She would likely say “Pork lard? Go right ahead. I’ll just delay the call to the EMT long enough to make sure you don’t recover.”

Heh, of COURSE she wouldn’t say that, but...her being an RN, and very knowledgable about all manner of plants including ones that can kill you, occasionally calmly tells me that “she will make me a nice cup of herbal tea”...:)

[mylife]

Sil made a delish spinach onion mushroom and feta pie in puff pastry for Thanksgiving

[mylife]

Crisco is what clogs arteries

[gundog]

Rhubarb/Strawberry...yummers.

[Red Badger]

My cardiologist says stay away from Bread, PASTA AND CAKES...............

[gundog]

It’s pretty much effortless to grow it.

[Red Badger]

It looks like red celery to me.................

[Red Badger]

From Wiki:

It needs rainfall and an annual cold period of up to 7-9 weeks at 3°C (37°F), known as ‘cold units’, to grow well.

That must be why we don’t see it much in FLORIDA..............😉

[Oorang]

I have always wanted to use lard instead of Crisco, because I have heard it is absolutely delicious, but my wife draws the line at lard with the dessert already filled with butter

Lard vs. butter...fat is fat (crisco is different) but lard and butter are both animal fats so basically the same. Crisco - hydrogenated vegetable oil so not the same thing nutritionally. Personally, I think butter and lard (real animal fat) is better for a person, but that's another topic.

If you ever do decide to add some lard make sure it's leaf lard (the fat from around the kidneys of the pig/hog) not just any lard. Big difference in texture, feel, and flavor. Just my two cents.

[Allegra]

That looks delicious. Such a nice, golden crust.

[V K Lee]

If the flies and the mud were to be eliminated, it sounds
lovely. :)
Found such a place in the state of Texas. Great Grandmother, two story old home built by great grandfather and his sons.
we'd walk the cow paths down to the pond, attempt to catch the ducks and frogs. Manage to stay far away from the bulls. Explore the hen house, the cellar, the old upstirs rooms of the house, the attic.

Spent many a summer evening walking the farmland or on the ground looking up at the heavens close enough to touch. Fireflies, millions of fireflies. How sad we don't see those too often any longer. Looking at the expanse above makes one feel connected, finding ourselves to be a small piece of the huge puzzle.

[gundog]

I remember some cold (and certainly wet) weather in Homestead. Lots of ag, down there. They do a lot of breeding of plants for different climates.

[gundog]

You can grow it covered, to keep it light and tender. They do that a lot in covered greenhouses.

[rlmorel]

I sent you a link via Freepmail...I thought you might find it pleasant, as you seem to have that same type of connection to a place.

[outofsalt]

The stalks are edible (when leavened by pounds of sugar), but the leaves are poisonous due to a high Oxalic acid content.
In case you are ever invited for tea by Mrs. rlmorel

[SoConPubbie]

Yum!

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha...I only worry when her voice gets icy calm and quiet and she says “That’s fine. You have to sleep sometime.”

[rlmorel]

I loove good pie! Confession here, I can even eat lousy pie if I can heat it up and have a glass of milk with it, or a lump of ice cream on top.

I will say-one pie I am very blase about is Pumpkin Pie. I enjoy a single forkfull, and that is about it. I had some this past Thanksgiving, and it was...er...squishy and soft. I can enjoy it if it is quite firm.

[Mears]

Mince pie my favorite……..awesome.

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