Thursday, December 1, 2011

best ever

Best part of the Thanksgiving meal is pie!  This year, my sister-in-law's sister made the pecan.  I made the pumpkin and Mother made key lime.  Pumpkin is the only pie I make that I like better than my mother's.  (I use sweetened condensed milk instead of evaporated, and heavy spices.) All my mother's cooking is amazing, but her pies are incredible.  She has recently changed the recipe she uses for crust but I prefer the old one she got from her seventh-grade homemaking textbook. The prompt for November 20 was "best ever."  No problem writing about Mother's cooking for that!


Secret Ingredients

Mother's pies
are unduplicateable...
not the recipes –
we have those.
In every perfect bite
we taste the love
she has given us
and helped us give
to each other.

bh
nov 2011

1 comment:

Phyllis Wheeler said...

So true! Thanks for the lift!