The Quintessence of Pie

[osprey_archer]

I've moved into my apartment. I have a kitchen and a lime green butterfly chair and the laundry right across the hall and no internet access yet, which would probably be good for me, but I'm probably going to cave and get internet anyway.

On the drive up I stopped at my friend Rachel's house. They were having a little family reunion - most of her relations live within an hour's drive so sometimes they just get together for no reason at all. When I was growing up our closest relatives were five hours away, so this is totally foreign to me.

AND THEY HAD THE BEST PIE. Her mom baked an apple pie which was the quintessence of apple pie: a flaky crust, the apples soft but not at all mushy, sweetened and spiced with just enough cinnamon sugar to make the apples almost painful in their exquisite apple-ness, a la mode with vanilla bean ice cream. SO AMAZING.

Comments

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the apartment! And the PIE!!! Especially the pie.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Pie is AMAZING.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love vanilla bean ice cream--one of my favorites.

Enjoy the apartment! I bet you'll have fun cooking.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I bought a teapot today! It's red! So if nothing else I'll have tea all winter.

[anait.livejournal.com]

YUM!

Apartment sounds really nice. :)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

It's pretty sweet, I gotta say.

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

You're a big girl now!

Also, PIE. I LOVE PIE.

PIE IS GOOD.

I think I love this chair, btw. I trust the rest of the kitchen isn't also lime green?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

The chair is actually in the living room. The kitchen is tastefully accented with splashes of red: red toaster, red tea kettle, red kitchen towel...