I am at Brixiefest – Mr R’s new term for my self-imposed weekend of solitary writing and cooking. I have a lot to do, not least make a PIE for Yinzerella’s annual Pieathalon challenge. For the first of these last year I made Mile High Lemon Chiffon Pie and played the Vincent Price Co-Stars game with lovely Vic and Anna..
I can’t tell you yet what my pie challenge is this year, all will be revealed on Memorial Day (May 25th); All I can say is this, as I am all alone this weekend, if I eat this whole pie by myself I will give myself the most incredible sugar high ever, as I rarely eat sweet things…
And now I’ve just been down an internet black hole after asking myself, “I wonder if Eric ever did a *sugar high* photo?”
I shall explain. When I first started using the internet, one of the first “blog” type things I followed was something called “Eric Conveys an Emotion”, I have no idea how I found it. The concept was simple. You could email Eric an emotion, and he’d take a photo of himself conveying it. The one that springs to mind was this one…
The whole thing is completely daft but I loved it. Doing something just because it was fun was a fairly new concept to me then, but not now of course! I mostly do this blog just because it’s fun. So anyhow, I just found Eric’s website again and it looks like he hasn’t’ been conveying emotions since 2008. I wonder what became of him?
I guess this one will be the closest to how I’ll feel once I’ve made my pie…
or maybe…
all of which to say, doing the Piathalon is, to my mind, a similar undertaking. I am doing it because it’s a fun thing to do. Some people might think it is crazy to spend several hours making a pie that will probably never get eaten (well only a small slice of it probably) but I just say:
Me and Mr R had a few drinks in the legendary Quinns last night- they have finally fixed the broken glass in the front door and removed the slightly sinister whitewashing on the front windows. Perhaps they are going to turn it into a gastro pub (ha ha!)
When we got back to my place we had more beers in the kitchen and danced around a bit to “Kimono My House” by Sparks – one of the first gifts Mr R gave me, I love it…
Then we made a Sophia Loren Pizza. It was delicious.
The full recipe for Sophia’s pizza can be found here… Last night’s version was a sort of adaptation of Sophia’s suggested topping of marinara sauce, salami, mozzarella, dried sweet basil and parmesan with a little drizzle of olive oil. Mmmmmmmmm x
Now – to the pie!
I’m getting excited about the Piathalon too! You made me feel better that I’m not the only one who will probably end up wasting a lot of pie… It’s the fun that counts.
Soooo true – can’t wait to see what you picked out – mine was tonnes of fun!