Belated Pi(e) Day celebration!

To celebrate pi(e) day, March 14th for anyone not into math holidays, I was told to make a pie. It had to be pretty, and someone wanted pumpkin. I instead made a Tart Berry pie! I had the assistance of my good friend Kelsey, as well as her kitchen. Yay not shitty ovens! It's tart because I used more lemon and lime than was suggested in the recipe I found, but who cares? Lemons are perfect.

What you'll need:

2 pie crusts (one frozen pack from the store has 2 inside! Convenience, man)

2 plastic containers of blackberries

1 container of raspberries

1 lemon

1 lime

1 cup of sugar

3 tablespoons of cornstarch

1 egg for an egg wash

Zest your lemon and your lime, then juice half of each. Put that with the sugar, cornstarch, and berries in a bowl, stir, and let it sit for 20-ish minutes. Stir it every once in a while, mash the berries a bit, but mostly just let it chillax. In the mean time, put one disc of crust in your pie pan/tin and trim the edges. Cut the other disc into strips about 1.5 inches wide. Also, preheat your oven to 400 and put a baking sheet in there to heat up. When your filling is all relaxed and well rested, tell it it has to get baked, then pour it into the prepared crust. Top it with the strips formed into a lattice pattern, and then rub some beaten egg across the dough. Wrap the edges with foil to prevent burning, and pop that sucker in the oven on the baking sheet and let it cook for about 45 minutes.

*If you want to make this go over the top, as about 1 teaspoon of nutmeg. It gives it a small kick that makes this better than your average pie

Frozen is your Friend

Erika in my awesome chef coat.

So I just want to make this clear: I buy frozen and prepared foods. Half the time they're cheaper and they often give you more time with people when you'r cooking for other than yourself. Trust me. Last night I hung out with Erika at midnight and we made scones that were from a freezer. They are the best scones I've had in months. Literally.

What you'll need:
Scone dough from the store fridge

Preheat over to 350. Bake the scones for 20 minutes. If your package says otherwise, then follow the package.

Spring has Sprung, and so has Sickness

So Boyfriend started getting sick last night, and he still is today. Because I'm me, I keep asking him if I can do anything, bring him anything, if wants anything, etc. I offer to make him chicken noodle soup, and he consents. The only drawback? Today is the first absolutely perfect day of spring! And here I am inside making a hot chicken noodle soup instead of some deliciously cool salad or pasta dish. But it's for Boyfriend, so I don't mind. And it's tastes delicious, so it's not so bad.

What you'll need:
2 quarts chicken broth
2 chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
6 oz of wide/extra wide egg noodles
1/2 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced onion (I used red, because it's pretty)
1/2 cup diced celery
1 tsp rosemary
1 pinch of thyme
salt/pepper to taste

Simmer your broth and throw in the onions, celery, and carrots, rosemary and thyme, and let it cook around for a little bit, maybe 10 minutes? I don't know, i just had hot broth and threw stuff in as I finished chopping it up, then it all sat and waited for the chicken to cook. Once you think it has been doing its thing long enough, bring it to a boil and add your noodles and cook for 5 minutes. After that add your chicken, stir it around so it looks like you're working, and then it's ready to eat. You can let the chicken chill out for a few minutes in the soup if you want, it's up to you.

The thing to remember is that this is a soup. That means you can add ANYTHING YOU WANT. Yes, that's right, anything. Soup is the perfect dish to get crazy with, because it can almost never turn out bad, so throw in some parsnips, potatoes, radishes, peas, whatever food is in your fridge/freezer or that your stomach is absolutely begging for!