Apple pies are probably the quintessential pie of fall and winter. It’s apple season and quite frankly what’s better than a slice of warm apple pie with a nice scoop of vanilla (or for a special treat some of Tory’s homemade cinnamon ice-cream) on top?! When I make fruit pies, I like to make a…
Lemon meringue pie is a Forsman family favorite. So it was a no brainer to bring this pie to Thanksgiving dinner last week. One of my uncles even loves this pie so much that growing up he used to request lemon meringue pie as his birthday cake! This is the same recipe that my grandma…
The first time I was going to make pies for Thanksgiving, of course I had to make pumpkin pie. Upon hearing that my husband informs me that “You have to make them with real pumpkin, you know.” Real pumpkin? I thought the canned pumpkin was 100% pumpkin. Oh no, he was talking about me breaking…
The receptionist at my work likes to celebrate holidays, usually with“misery loves company” lunches- on days such as the day before Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve. These are the days that most people at the office take off, and she is still stuck answering the phones, thus “misery loves company.” For Valentine’s Day she does a pie…
When I was in elementary school, I spent a week with my grandparents at the old family cabin in the Pequot Lakes area. During that week, Nana took me to a strawberry farm with her. We picked buckets full of strawberries (and I may have eaten a few in the field). We took the strawberries…