When I was little, I LOVED the Puff the Magic Dragon movie...
Here is a link to the WHOLE movie!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3476801002597020377
But one of my favorite parts is when Jackie Draper meets Very Long John Black and Blueberry Kid...
Jackie: Can you bake a cherry pie, Very Long, Very Long, can you bake a cherry pie, Very Long John?
Very Long John: I can bake a cherry pie quick as a cat can wink its eye, pumpkin, peach and half a dozen others.
Jackie: I don't believe you!
Very Long John: You don't believe me?!
Jackie: You're a pretty good pirate, but a baker? Never.
I've never made a cherry pie. Heck, the only fruit pie I've ever made is apple! But I baked some peanut butter oatmeal cookies and sent them to work with Rick, and his co-workers requested a cherry pie. I'm totally game because I LOVE to bake... my biggest wish/dream is to be able to bake and sell my baked goods for a living (but having no formal training, I'm thinking thats not going to happen!) :o)
I accepted the cherry pie challenge, and I even made the crust... which turned out to be a great idea because I got to buy a food processor! :o) I used to cut butter in by hand, which is all fine and good, but with 3 kids clamoring for my attention, time is of the essence and all that! LOL I did cheat though, I used pie filling. I just didn't feel like pitting a ton of cherries, I could see that being even more time consuming that squeezing all those Key Limes! :o) Doesn't this look yummy?
Then Rick thought it would be a great idea to do a lattice top... uh, I've never done one of those either! :o) But I'm game for anything... here is the result, not beautiful, but it looks homemade! :o)
Here is the finished result... it smelled DIVINE!
Rick took it to work the next day and its my understanding that it was a hit. Enough that one of his co-workers asked if I'd make a blueberry pie! He'll even buy the blueberries for me! :o) That should be fun! Rick made sure to save me a piece so I could try it... but he completely forgot that I don't eat cherries LOL So I took the last 2 pieces over to his mom & sister (since his dad had already had a piece on their drive home from work!). :o)
Its summer and I'm baking... I must be nuts! :o) Chocolate chip cookies for him to bring into work next week (with Guittard chocolate, yum!)... and maybe apple pie the next week :o) And sometime next month, an Oreo cheesecake for Emmie. Its a good thing Rick takes these things to work with him, otherwise we'd have to roll everywhere! LOL
