Baking Apple Pies in the Oven

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving Everyone!

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Aaron asked me if I would make a couple of my apple pies for Thanksgiving with my family tomorrow.  It’s been awhile since I baked this particular pie recipe.  He brought it up three or four times, each entreaty accompanied by ever-escalating puppy dog eyes, so I knew he wanted me to do it even though I was planning on making some sort of specialty cake in the spirit of the honey lemon bee hive dessert I baked a few years ago; maybe a giant pumpkin or spice cake, in the (appropriately enough) shape of a pumpkin, with a cream cheese glaze drizzled over it; even better, perhaps a chocolate peanut butter bundt cake!  (Normally, I like vanilla cake with buttercream frosting but who doesn’t like chocolate and peanut butter?!)

Il Lazzarone Pizza St Joseph Missouri

You Should Try the Wood-Fired Italian Neapolitan Pizza at Il Lazzarone

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We met up with friends at a new wood-fired Italian Neapolitan pizza restaurant that opened 45 minutes north of Kansas City called Il Lazzarone.  This is the same group with which we regularly try new restaurants, though I’ve been terrible about posting them all over the years.  We sat inside for hours talking about everything from economics, rental…

Grocery Store Tomatoes

We All Won the Lottery (Yet People Still Think the World Is Going to Hell)

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I’ve been busy with family stuff lately, and, as part of that, taken several trips to the grocery store over the past few days.  I was standing in the produce section looking at the fruits and vegetables when I experienced a sense of awe.  It’s a human tendency to take for granted the things into which one is born but it really is incredible when you take time to reflect upon, and appreciate, the inheritance we all enjoy because of the men and women who came before us.