I baked a pie, finally!
It’s been a while since I made my favorite dessert, which is a fruit pie. Specifically, a berry pie. The main reason is that I can’t resist a fruit pie and have been known to act irresponsibly, especially when there’s also vanilla ice cream around. I can easily inhale half a pie all by myself!
For this pie, I tried to make it slightly low-carb by reducing the sugar and using almond flour for the crumble topping. We’ll find out later when I cut into it and taste it if I was successful in making it as scrumdiddlyumptious as the traditional full-sugar, full-carb version.
In the meantime, I shall distract my attention away from the pie by playing the NYTimes online games. I play them ALL – Wordle, Connections, Strands, Sudoku, etc., and I play them daily! Is this an addiction or an obsession? Or both?
Here are more distractions!
“I thought I’ve cooked shrimp just about any other way you can cook them, but apparently I’m wrong. I haven’t thought about shrimp in fritters!” — Angie
“Winter is lemon time! That’s right, now is when lemons and other citrus are plentiful and inexpensive, so this pie is seasonably appropriate, though a pie is always appropriate ANY time! — Angie
“Dark chocolate and espresso? Dream combo!” — Jhuls
“I do love a good salad, and this one is one of my favorite ones.” — Angie
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The Shrimp Fritters sound amazing!
Thank you for featuring my Dark Chocolate Espresso Chip Cookies! Our eating habits are similar … we don’t have dietary restrictions, but I prefer to keep gluten at a minimum (so I can use it to “splurge” on the “good stuff” later ~ can’t tell the difference between GF pasta and lots of other things anyways). I really limit dairy too, not just b/c I’m lactose intolerant but because it just bloats everyone, it seems! ** A couple of years ago, I drastically reduced gluten and almost no real dairy, and Hubby lost 70 lbs in about 10 months. He kept telling people it just “fell off” and he had no idea why! (so obviously he couldn’t tell the difference in what I made for dinner then ~ and I’d still bake something for him SF so he wasn’t totally deprived). He’s type 2 diabetic and was taken off his meds ever since b/c he’s back to “normal” numbers now! … I personally would eat beef or lamb every night (not a fish fan), but I choose vegetarian if I can’t have that (one of those people who actually likes tofu!). ** Sorry to ramble ……Happy 2025!
Everything looks delicious! Have a great week, stay warm and thanks so much for the awesome party!
Miz Helen
Now I’m craving fruit pie for breakfast. You planted the idea. I love popping in here for the party. I always find such inspiring ideas and recipes. Thank you for hosting. This week I brought CHILE CORNBREAD SALAD, APPLE LEMON BUNDT CAKE and CLASSIC BURGERS with BACON AIOLI. I hope you have a FANTASTIC weekend.
So many superb and delicious features. WOW
Thanks Angie, for hosting this great party. Happy Friday
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Always such beautiful food, thanks so much for hosting, wishing you a wonderful week ahead! Melynda @scratchmadefood!
You made me laugh about the pie. It looks delicious and you’ll have to tell us if the substitutions worked. I’m so glad you like our Asian slaw and I appreciate the feature. Have a great weekend. XO- MaryJo