The NEXT Great Debate

[Veronica]

This is a freakin' huge pie. My pie dish is ten inches across and the apples top out about five inches above the dish.

It's actually a rather ugly pie today. The top crust broke as I was putting it on. Actually all my apple pies end up being ugly. I'm crust challenged. But they taste pretty good. It's breakfast food here.

It's a pretty standard recipe. The crust has a tablespoon of vinegar added to it. It helps keep it from getting tough as you roll it out.

I add a third of a cup of Scotch to the apples as I put them in along with a sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg mixture.

V.

[margo49]

I add a third of a cup of Scotch to the apples as I put them in along with a sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg mixture.

V.

Do you test the Scotch?
How much nutmeg? (Anything < 1/2 a nut is a waste of hallucinogen)

Both these ingredients are only "effective" un-baked of course!

[Pedal Wench]

Simple solution.

1. Carefully, gently, lift section of top crust.
2. Scoop out warm, gooey apples and piece of bottom crust.
3. Replace top crust.
4. Enjoy!

[Bluetree]

PW.. now that's just plain evil!

[DebW]

Well whenever you decide to cut it, the baker of the pie ALWAYS gets to eat the first piece AND the last piece. Make sure you slice it into an odd number so you get more than Thom.

[mtbdarby]

In deepest sympathy of my last baked apple pie (may it rest in peace), which I lovingly baked for my parents and placed on top of an air bake cookie sheet so it wouldn't drip in my oven - causing the bottom crust to not bake AT ALL - and I didn't know this until I served it after dinner (is this sentence long enought for ya? ) **deep breath**, you must try a piece now. There will be no presentation if the bottom crust didn't bake, only humiliation which is tough to serve, even ala mode, when you have to flip the piece over, exposing a nekid bottom. Oh, **hand across forehead** the disgrace of it all....

[maillotpois]

I like PW's solution! Anyway, you need some pie before your ride.... He would want you to have it.

[Veronica]

I like PW's solution! Anyway, you need some pie before your ride.... He would want you to have it.

Ride???? Yeah, it's 47 degrees here now. The pie has another twenty minutes.

I have two new Spinervals videos coming home with Thom today. I got the yoga one - okay not really a Spinerval. And the Irongirl one.

Definitely lacking motivation currently.

V.

[maillotpois]

2 cents on motivation, because I'm clearly not going to get any PIE...

You had a big year last year. Some loss of motivation after a big year and a lot of accomplishments is normal, I think.

I've been through several periods where I lost motivation with riding. After some very intense training cycles where I was focussed on "x" miles or hours per day at "X" heart rate - it just killed cycling for me and I had to take some time off. When I came back (it was never like I "stopped" because I kept doing centuries, but nothing more than that and I wasn't exactly pushing myself), I rode when I wanted to and according to how I felt and really rediscovered riding and had fun with it. Then I gradually built up over a year or so and started doing tougher stuff like the doubles and Death Ride.

I don't know how your training has been over the fall and winter, but it's not a bad idea to give yourself a break from cycling and from "training" every once in a while. You won't lose as much fitness as you think - and more importantly you already have the "mental fitness" part down and that doesn't go away even when the legs get a bit soft - you know, the knowledge that you can do whatever ride because you did some other ride that's just as hard or harder.

I wouldn't have chosen 6 months off the bike last year, but being away from it has really made me really appreciate the time I do spend riding my bike, and in the long run, it will probably prove to have been a good thing (and not just because now I have almost normal lung capacity!). It also made me remember that even if I don't ride both weekend days or 3 days during the week or whatever, I can still get enough riding in to do the rides I want to, perform decently and still have a life. I'm trying to balance it out more - adding the horseback riding in has been fun, because PP enjoys that more than riding the tandem (I will continue to try the tandem, but no way would she ride in this cold!).

Enjoy the pie!

[Bikingmomof3]

I like PW's solution. Yummy, I love pie.

[Veronica]

I know a lot of it is that I just don't like leaving the house. I actually get kind of nauseous before I leave for work every day. It's alright if we leave together. Weird huh.

And I absolutely hate that I'm having this reaction and I can't control it.

Well... if I'm going to eat pie... I need to ride.

V.

[Aggie_Ama]

Well if it doesn't look pretty, you better make sure it tastes good. You don't want to serve Thom a substandard pie, therefore the right thing to do is to ensure it is a high quality pie.

[crazycanuck]

Well...umm here's an idea...

You could freeze the pie & send it to Seattle/vancouver/victoria(put name of place here) in May/June or whatever month we're there...

Or we could re-think our possible flight route, fly through SF and have a picnic with the funky funky SF ladies..

Or you could just freeze the pie and ignore it. One day you'll go to make another one but there'll be a submilinal message coming from your freezer telling you " No no no you must have ME, ME, ME..Yes, ME the wonderful apple pie you made & forgot..the peices are so lonely in the dark"

It's 630am & these are my thoughts...

c

[Deanna]

This is a freakin' huge pie. My pie dish is ten inches across and the apples top out about five inches above the dish.

It's actually a rather ugly pie today. The top crust broke as I was putting it on. Actually all my apple pies end up being ugly. I'm crust challenged. But they taste pretty good. It's breakfast food here.


V.

Well, if the pie is ugly, it might feel better if you showed your love by having a piece. It might develop issues if left to stew in its own juices, waiting to be admired by a man. As it's creator, I think its your responsibility to make it feel good about itself.

[Pax]

How do think the pie would feel about being left all alone and ignored on the counter?? Think of the pie!