mini pie mini success

I sold all my mini pies on Saturday!  Barely turned a profit, but didn't lose money (that is good enough for me at this point). 

My superstar mini pie was the Jamon Serrano beetroot with fromage blanc.  Ugh, god it was tasty.

those mini pies rocked my spots off.

a great duck hairdo

I spent some of today gathering things for the big pie thing.  One of the pies will be a fresh strawberry custard with jasmine whipped cream.  My only hope is that I don't eat the ingredients before they make it to the event.

My boyfriend has a head injury from a hug gone wrong.

I've been feeling a bit fatalistic and stressed out about making these pies and making them delicious.  I drew a duck with fancy feathers the other week and it calms me down to look at it because it fills me with the warm and fuzzies (dryer lint?).

fancy duck, fancy 'do

the wet carpet's exploration of darkness closing party

Amazing miniature pies and tartlets will available for purchase at The Wet Carpet's exhibition closing party this Saturday, March 26.  The party (well, the portion of the party where pies will available) will be at the Lub.d Guesthouse, starting around 9pm.  There will also be beer and other things that will make the atmosphere quite party-like.   

Savory Pies!  Sweet Tartlets!  Sluts!  Enthusiasm!  Jerks!  Beautiful People!  Neon Shit!  One or More Pairs of Socks!  

You will probably run into most, if not all of these things at the event, so come on down!

I may replace this image with something more representative later today.

pi day pies and twin peaks

Here are some photos of the two pies that were made for Pi Day.  They were pretty delightful.  I have no clue if any of them sold, but I tasted a little bit of comfort and heaven when I bit into the oaty fruit and bacon extravaganza that I got to create while watching an episode of Twin Peaks.

Brown Sugar Green Apple Oat

Peppery Olive Oil and Bacon Oat

Apple and Bacon Oat, being awesome.

Oh my god, this jerk was bringing drugs into Twin Peaks!!!

A crappy thing about Laura Palmer's death is that she wasn't able to sample these delicious pies before kicking it.

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This Monday is Pi Day and to celebrate the day (or exploit, whatever), I will bake a series of (when I say series, I mean two) tasty pies for Serenade Restaurant's Ultra Special Pie Menu.  The pies to be gobbled will be an olive oil peppered bacon oatmeal pie, and a sweet buttered brown sugar and green apple oatmeal pie.

   

the vanilla chicken again

It tasted pretty good, but needs to be creamier and worse for heart health.

Here are two pictures.  One is of the pie (with removable dough charm) and the other is of the sign advertising the pie as a dinner special.  Not one piece sold!  More for whomever ends up eating it, ha!

the vanilla chicken

Pie lesson: sometimes flour that looks exactly the same has different protein and gluten contents and this is significant because it can make your pie crust lame like a crippled Kriss Angel.

Other than the crust mishap, the Vanilla Chicken Pie seems to have gone pretty well.  It gets tasted by me today.  I can't wait.

To remedy reading something boring with no pictures, here is a thing:

A skinny fat trashy white guy with enviable hair.

sloppy cucumbers

Yesterday included an attempt at a cucumber honey meringue pie.  It failed at first, the filling remained slushy and liquid even after the oven manhandled it, but it came around after some coaxing and prodding this morning.

Clearly, the technique and recipe will need to be redone but that is all right because it is loads of fun to mess around with weird pies.

working with eyes full of citrus

This layout and so many other things in my life are unfinished and in need of so much improvement it makes me rigid because I don't know where to start.  But I want to try to keep this up even if it is a frumpy mess.

I had a great weekend and ate dill flavored potatoes and honey flavored salmon and all sorts of other food that tasted like other food.

I'm working on a recipe card set for some pies I came up with.  I hope they turn out.