A Very Special Occasion

I'm not one to cook everyday.  In fact, I thank the lord that my sweet husband, known affectionately as Bad Rooster (his initials are B.A.D.), likes to cook so we manage to eat pretty well around here.  What I do like to do is bake, particularly on special occasions.

Several days ago, I read a post by my friend Lynn (http://alittlebluesky.blogspot.com/)
about how hard it is for her to bake with her daughter Brenna, who has some vision issues.  Lynn was commenting on how difficult it is for Brenna to follow recipes that she can't see very well.  Basically, Lynn needs to read her the recipe and Brenna "just has to trust that Mom is getting it right."  Well, it got me to thinking...

What occasion could be more special than baking with the intention of providing instructions in big print and lots of step-by-step photos to guide Brenna through the process.  So then it became a question of what to make.

When I was in college my boyfriend at the time loved pie and his mother, Glenrose, made the best pie crust I'd ever had.  So I asked her if she would teach me how to make it and she agreed.  I still make pie crust the same way today and have sort of become known for my pies.  So that is the lesson I chose to pass on to Brenna.

Earlier this week I gathered all the ingredients to make pumpkin pie.  I recruited Bad Rooster to stand on a stool next to me and take LOTS of pictures; his payment was the finished pie and pumpkin is his favorite so it wasn't hard to talk him into it.

I'm still in the process of pulling it all together -- editing photos, taking a few additional pics of tools and ingredients and writing the instructions, but its coming along. 

Here's a few pictures from the big photo shoot, and the finished product:

Basic tools...



and ingredients...

a little elbow grease...

flute the edges...

into the oven it goes...

  

 don't forget the decoration...

sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, please... and voila!

We have pie!  Looks yummy, doesn't it?

I had some extra pumpkin left over, so tonight I made this...

I have a feeling the treadmill and I are going to be

spending a LOT of time together this week.

Thanks for stopping by to share my special occasion dear friends;

I hope you enjoyed baking with me.