Sunday, June 6, 2004

Auntie Em!
Hidey-ho! I may not be posting all too often for a while (woah! Big changes!), because I have to pack up my house to move to Kansas.

Yep, the job offer went through, and we should be moving around July 5 or so. Strangely, though, I'm not sad about moving at all. In fact, I'm quite relieved. My sister and I have been ready to get out of this town, and start over somewhere else. I think it'll end up being pretty fun.

Also, Baron Samedi told me to send him one of Brother John's famous strawberry pies, and although I (sadly) couldn't do that, it gave me an idea. Before, I had posted holidays that occured all over the world on that day at the end of all of my myO posts. Eventually, though, the site that posted those holidays ceased to do so, for reasons yet unknown. Since then, I've been trying to come up with a new daily info-bit to conclude my posts. So with Baron's inspiration, I'm going to start posting a daily recipe! Starting with the requested strawberry pie, I'll try to put these at the end of every post I make. I'll try to keep them fairly simple (moreso than this pie), since I know most of you don't own a restaraunt and consequently don't have a whole bunch of obscure ingredients at your disposal. You people just tell me how you're groovin' with it.

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The Brother John's Totally Awesome Strawberry Pie

-1 baked 9-inch pie shell
-2 pt. fresh strawberries
-3/4 c. sugar
-2 Tbsp. cornstarch
-3/4 c. water
-3 Tbsp. Strawberry Jell-O mix
-Cool Whip



Wash the strawberries and cap them (cut off the stems). Cut them up into small slices or chunks (whatever floats your boat).

Mix the sugar with cornstarch in a saucepan. Add the water. Cook the mixture on a stove while stirring it until it becomes thick (two or three minutes). Take it off the stove and stir in the Jell-O mix. Let the whole thing cool until it's lukewarm.

Put the strawberries in the bottom of the pie crust and pour on the filling. Make sure the filling is fairly smoothed out, and top it off with the Cool Whip. Try not to glob it all on at once, or you'll make the filling spill over the edge of the pie. That not good. Instead, put it on a few smaller globs at a time, and spread them around.

If you want to make it look a little prettier, fan a strawberry and put it on the top. To fan a strawberry, cut it in lines toward the stem, but stop before you cut all the way through the strawberry. Now, just fan the pieces out with your fingers. Bam!
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