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| Barefoot Love! |
We moved
a lot when I was little.
"Our battered suitcases
were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go.
But no matter,
the road is life."
~ Jack Kerouac
"Our battered suitcases
were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go.
But no matter,
the road is life."
~ Jack Kerouac
California
introduced us to
Giant Redwoods, the West Coast,
introduced us to
Giant Redwoods, the West Coast,
and Disneyland.
I was an
infant;
Breast
was the meal du jour!
Alaska
introduced us to
a very… long… car ride,
introduced us to
a very… long… car ride,
and bean
sandwiches.
We were
poor.
We had love and beans.
Florida
introduced us to
the East Coast...
Florida
introduced us to
the East Coast...
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The Florida Keys ~ That's me there; the little smiling face in
the two piece!
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the Sun, the Sand, and the Wind in our hair...
and it began my love affair
with my Be-lov-ed
and it began my love affair
with my Be-lov-ed
Key
Lime Pie!
"Adventure is a path.
Real adventure ~ self-determined, self-motivated,
often risky...
forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.
Your body will collide with the earth
and you will bear witness.
In this way you will be compelled
to grapple with the limitless kindness
and bottomless cruelty of humankind...
and perhaps realize that you yourself
are capable of both.
This will change you.
Nothing will ever again
be black-and-white."
~ Mark Jenkins
"Adventure is a path.
Real adventure ~ self-determined, self-motivated,
often risky...
forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.
Your body will collide with the earth
and you will bear witness.
In this way you will be compelled
to grapple with the limitless kindness
and bottomless cruelty of humankind...
and perhaps realize that you yourself
are capable of both.
This will change you.
Nothing will ever again
be black-and-white."
~ Mark Jenkins
In 1972,
my mom
clipped a recipe from the Tampa Times.
She selected
true key limes,
as the
ingredient list suggested,
on a drive down to the Florida Keys.
Key limes
are yellow, when ripe,
and
smaller than the limes
found in these parts.
They’re
tart and bitter and delicious!
The
following November
we introduced
Our Kentucky Family
to a
Our Kentucky Family
to a
Thanksgiving
mouth explosion!
We've been hooked since!
There are
few culinary pleasures that actually
tug on my
heartstrings.
I do love
me a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut!
And, I am
a sucker for a bowl of warm pasta and bread.
But it
is that last Thursday in November,
every
year since I was four,
that my
mouth, literally, becomes a pie hole.
“Really, it’s green?”
Yes, it is my friends!
Yes, it is.
☮
Key Lime Pie
For Pie:
1 can Sweetened
Condensed Milk
4 Egg yolks (Save the
whites for Meringue!)
¼ cup Lime juice,
(Key limes preferably, but bottled lime juice will suffice!)
(Key limes preferably, but bottled lime juice will suffice!)
3 to 4 drops of Green
food coloring
*Presentation folks. It's all in the presentation.*
*Presentation folks. It's all in the presentation.*
1 Graham cracker crust
For
Meringue:
4 Egg whites
1 tsp. Cream of tartar
3 Tbsp. Sugar
Beat egg yolks until
light yellow.
Add sweetened condensed
milk and lime juice.
Mix in drops of green, and
Voila!
Pour into graham crust.
Beat all ingredients
for the meringue in mixer
until stiff and peaks
form.
~If you’re looking to
combine dessert with your workout:
Whisk in a glass bowl
and count after me…
One, Two, Ten-thousand!
~
Pile immediately on top
of pie in pretty dips and waves.
Bake at 350 degrees
until tips of meringue are lightly browned.
You want reviews?
How 'bout,
"Green is my new favorite color!" ヅ
How 'bout You?
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Show some Barefoot Love and...
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What's on your table?
“Do not
be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life
is an experiment.”
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
*Barefoot Love*Airbrush By, Colleen
2012
*Barefoot Love*Airbrush By, Colleen
2012
Oh, Scarlett! I *love* Key Lime Pie. In a pinch Edward's frozen will do. BTW, there's some in the freezer right now. :-D
ReplyDeleteI'm not a Key Lime Pie person, but that's probably because I've never tasted yours. Made from scratch is a whole different taste experience. The recipe looks pretty tempting.
ReplyDeleteMy hubs ADORES Key Lime pie. Now where am I gonna get Key Limes in the midwest?
ReplyDeleteZAN MARIE ~ Because it's so incredibly sweet and rich, I eat it maybe twice a year. Well, sometimes three, even after the meringue as wilted! *wink*
ReplyDeleteCONNIE ~ Do not be fooled by most imitations out there, either served up by restaurants or in the frozen section. (Though, I'd like to try and find Zan Marie's, Edward's.)The first restaurant I worked in as a teenager, A restaurant DEDICATED TO PIES, served Key Lime Pie... Only they made it with lemon juice. Wha...?!
NOT the same, I can assure you.
Lydia ~ I've been making Key Lime Pies for most of my adult life. When my mom or I were absent from our Kentucky family's Thanksgiving, someone else in the family stepped up to the task! We have many Key Lime Pie Mishap stories ~ Misguided meringue running down the stove front and what not!
I have yet to make one with real key limes, since the Florida Keys are far, far away from my home here in the mid-west. Bottled lime juice really does just as well, my mom says. And there's always the limes we find around these parts.
"Eureka," she cried out in the middle of produce.
ReplyDeleteLydia, I looked for them this morning, just for fun, and found key limes in Missouri! Perhaps they were there all along, eyeballing me and my cart; searching for any crumb of evidence that a pie was looming in their tiny future, a graham, a cream of tartar... "Ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!" ~ What the hell is a cream of tartar, anyway?
I admit, I left them there in their little netted bags, trucked up from Mexico in their little bath of "protective" petroleum. Ew.
Roadtrip coming, I suspect, if I am ever to have the real thing again.
"Honey, we need to make a quick 20+ hour dash down to Key West for some research I'm working on."
How does that sound? Think it'll work?
Mmmm, that's good stuff. Best when eaten on vacation in Florida. :)
ReplyDeleteMmmmm.... va-ca-tion... I could stand some of that about now. Our suntanned skin from the North Carolina coast this summer has faded.
ReplyDeleteI'm always a wee bit skeered, L.G. to try another's key lime pie. I guess I'm afraid it won't measure up to my expectations of Awesomeness.
I'm really no cook, but selling pies, of all kinds, on the side of the road may be my true calling.
I visited Florida once but didn't get a chance to try their key lime pie. I did try their Key lime ice cream though. Oh YUM!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to try that recipe.
Hi, Lynda!
ReplyDeleteKey Lime ice cream sounds wonderful. Is it green? *Big Smile*
I can't think of Key Lime pie without remembering Key West. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteNow I gotta have some. BAD!
Heh Heh. A little slice of heaven!
ReplyDeleteDon,
"It's these changes in latitudes,
changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running
and all of our cunning, if we
couldn't laugh we would all go insane!"
~Beach Bum and Poet, Jimmy Buffet
LOVE Key Lime Pie. Don't know that I've ever had it with REAL Key Limes, but still, it's delicious. I'm always in need of good recipes, loving your "I Cook Barefooted" theme.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Denton
Thanks, Catherine! I'm having fun sharing them, with a story thrown in for good measure. *grin*
ReplyDeleteBeautiful space, wonderful post. I love Key Lime Pie. I've made it when I lived in the States, but here in the Islands where we have REAL Key Limes It's heaven (the pie and the islands.)
ReplyDeleteI'll be back.
farawayeyes, I am so psyched you stopped in! There is just something so calm and inviting in your voice ~ and your space as well.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm... Real Key limes. Are they as suitable in the lip of a Corona, as they are in the pie? I'm not much of a beer drinker, but the tart pulp of a lime does help that p*sswater go down. Sorry bout that. Sometimes my filters don't work right.
Come back anytime.