A Little Slow on the Uptake

I know I promised to post pix of my pie last week.....I ended up not feeling so swell at this fabulous party....but being the consumate party goer, I perservered....
Better late than never! :))

My pie is at the top right in the pix. Here is the recipe:) Naturally it can be found in The Dish Diva Cookbook

French Silk Pie

1 9” pie shell, baked
¾ C butter, softened
1 C sugar
1 T vanilla
2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled slightly
3 eggs
1 C whipping cream
Shaved or curled chocolate for garnish


Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and chocolate. Beat in 1 egg at a time-beating each egg no less than 5 minutes each (no kidding). Pour into crust and chill at least 4 hours. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate curls.


It was one of the first pies gone-besides Tanya's creations and that bean pie.....Dang that was good!
 

Gonna Make a Pie

Gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie...

It's the song from the movie "Waitress"-man I love that movie! For several reasons:
1. An ass** gets what he deserves in the end 
2. She concocts some of the most fabulous looking pies!
3. Andy Griffith is in it
4. Her little girl reminds me of Amy Lou when she was little
5. She has cool as hell girlfiriends-they are not perfect and are a little nutty, but they love her and are very loyal (Like my friends!!)

The only one I've found the recipe for is "I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong and I Don't Want Earl to Kill Me" Pie. And it looks weird. I may have to watch that movie yet again and makeup my own recipes.
Anyhoo.....gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie
Tonya is having a pie party tomorrow and I am going to make my French Silk Pie. It is TO DIE FOR. Calvin will be pissed that I am taking this pie to a party he is not invited to.  I always tell him "Now honey, I can't take a pie/cake/etc....to a party with a slice missing!"  He still doesn't get it and looks at me longingly as I leave with my deliciousness. Secretly I kind of enjoy torturing him :)
And because I am in such a good mood (Pie always does that to me), I will take photos, post them to this blog along with the recipe. Tomorrow.

Baby don't ya cry-gonna make a pie
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Baby don't be blue
Gonna make for you
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Gonna be a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with strawberry love
Hold you forever in the middle of my heart

TTFN

My fan base

Yowza~I have TRIPLED my fan base in less than a week....there are now 17 blog followers!!! Woohoo!! It's incredible what you can get just by asking (a little bribery doesn't hurt either:) I am starting a process to create a new website-one that incorporates the cookbook, my cookies & sweets, and anything else I'd like to sell in the future (you never know what I will come up with!) Will let you all know first....

Am headed to the thriving metropolis of Derby in a few--

TTFN

The Dish Diva in Derby

Try saying that 5 times fast~The Dish Diva will soon (tomorrow) have a home @ Bitterweet in Derby! For those (my 5 followers) of you who've never been there--GO!! It's the cutest shop and has lots of chatzkes (sp?) for your home decor. I have to give props to my beautiful daughter for this score~I met Barb Royce (owner of Bittersweet) @ an antique show last winter, but never connected her with a retail shop. Then, Barb goes in to Beauty First to have expert hair stylist Amy do her hair~~well being my dot, (she just happens to have The Dish Diva sitting out on her station) she starts talking up her Mama :) She also throws in that I am The Cookie Diva and that my cookies are to die for....so I got a cookie order to boot for her open house! And there is a cookie store right next door to her~~SCORE!!!~~

OK let's see who is actually reading this--Followers (yes all 5 of you)--if you can get some of your friends to "follow" the Dish Diva blog, there's a free cookbook in it for you. Have them leave a comment after a post telling me who sent them
The lucky follower with the most friends who join at the end of next week gets a cookbook--signed! LOL

Game on

The F*&^ing Heat

I told myself I would keep this clean-those of you who know me can understand how hard this actually is. But My God it's hot ...and what's with that freakin "heat index"? I don't WANT to know how hot it ACTUALLY is...if it's 99 it's 99, not 115 with the heat index. When I hear news like that, (and I'm at a VERY hot time in my life right now) I feel a small balloon being popped in my head somehow and I want to just fall on the ground wherever I am. I'm tooling along, thinking "Wow it's pretty da*& hot, but I'm doing OK...." then some smarta** weatherman says (always too cheerfully) "Folks-it's a scorcher out there--temp gauge says 99, but with the heat index it feels like it's 115-"  *&^%
Thank you Lord Jesus for inventing Sonic Happy Hour from 2-4....

Recipe Contest

I received an email from Red Velvet Stephanie about a baking contest she is having. I am INTO contests these days. But I'm feeling like the red-headed step child lately--several 2nd and 3rd places, no blue ribbons as of late. The last time I won a contest was the B98FM Super Bowl Appetizer Contest a couple of years back. My competition was Millionaire Pie and Tater Tot Casserole. I pulled one of the judges aside (I know his mother) and told him if my Artichoke Cheesecake didn't win, to please let me know NOW so I could sneak out the back door...I mean really--tater tot casserole??? At a Super Bowl party??? I know those fans were pissed no matter what the outcome of the game was. But I digress.
I think I will enter one of my cheesecakes.
Do you all know I make over 50 different kinds of cheesecake? They are all yummy.
I am now off to peruse my collection.

Today my oldest child is moving into her own apartment. I have mixed feelings about this event-on the one hand, this is what I've groomed her for all her life. To support herself (which she can), care for herself (which she can) and live independently (which she has done well before)
On the OTHER hand....I will miss her terribly. BUT she is not moving out of town and I will still talk to her every day.
This is one of the hard parts of being a Mom......letting go.....what kills me is when I tell other parents this fact (especially older ones) most of them say "OH she WILL be back...you can bank on that"...well frankly I don't care what their stupid children do, I know my perfect child will NEVER be back because she is so wonderful and nothing adverse will EVER happen to her.....(I like my fantasy world--it is airconditioned and perfect!)
She just came upstairs and it is time to go......
I have my Kleenex.....