(anne + livi): goodbye…

well...good byes are always hard...but livi and i decided that the blog had served it's purpose, and it was time to move on...i will be retiring (at least temporarily) from blogging, but livi will be continuing to blog on her own personal blog. livi and i will continue to talk, text, and take pictures of …

(anne): little tasties

when i typed this title, spell check immediately changed "tasties" to "nasties". haha. depending on who in my family you talked to, either one of those would have been an accurate description! usually, these little bits of dough are left over from rolling out pie crust for a bona fide pie. i chose to make …

(livi): strawberry rhubarb pie

strawberry rhubarb pie is like the spring pie of all the spring pies…kate mcdermott's "art of the pie" includes several pies using rhubarb...i can't wait to bake my way through them all!my dear mother invited my brothers over to my house the evening i was making this, and so my “baking mind” was trying to multi-task …

(anne): vanilla apple galette

this past week, i set out to make an apple pie...and then i asked myself, why? i could either make one double crust apple pie or two apple galettes...all with the same amount of dough and less fuss...no brainer, right? a galette is basically a rustic, open-topped tart. you roll out your pie dough to …

(livi): the quintessential (mini) apple pies

my sister’s wedding was this past friday evening and instead of a full dinner menu she had just a simple dessert reception.  since my mama doesn’t eat refined sugar, i decided to bake her up a few tiny treats of her own to enjoy at the reception. she was, after all, the mother of the …

(livi): raspberry pie

raspberry pie is the perfect summer pie. ...but i used frozen berries, from last summer, for this one=) i can't wait until my little raspberry patch is ready for picking! i never thought berry pie could be so simple, but they really are! and since we've started baking through the "art of the pie", i've learned …

(anne): happy easter!

hey! first off, an apology...my life has been crazy busy with music for the past several weeks, and i have made no time in my schedule to bake pies (i admit, i did make time to make a chocolate/cinnamon/coffee cake!) [i am a cake girl more than a pie girl]. 🙂 all this to say, …

(livi): sour cherry pie

okay before i begin let's just for a moment talk about how incredibly cute these mini pies are!!!!! the perfect culinary creations…. i mean they’re positively A-DOR-A-BLE!!!!! seriously,  so delightful to look at=)i used two pints of sour cherries that my mama canned. kate’s recipe in the art of the pie used fresh cherries, which were then cooked down …

(livi): lemon meringue pie

....isn't it the most beautiful pie you've ever beheld!!!!! lemon meringue pie is a pie that i've never tasted or made before...so it was lots of fun, and honestly, i thought it would be a lot more difficult to make than it was. for this pie, the crust is blind baked before you add the filling. i used …

(anne): blackberry apple pie

hey! it's anne....i planned to make an all blackberry pie last week, but didn't have enough berries an threw in a ton of pink lady and granny smith apples. it turned out with the apples a bit crunchy, but still delicious...also, my crust was a bit tough (due to not enough water in the dough....when …