today's post is all about balance.
i'll start with the key lime pie. my absolute best almost homemade recipe to date. 'tis the season to be jolly and all that. here's a picture for inspiration. notice how it's half gone, or half not, depending on your point of view. mouth watering yet?
this pie is so easy to make, you can almost do it w/out having to drag yourself into the kitchen, which is just the incentive you need to crawl back on the cooking horse if you burned the thanksgiving turkey like I did. what saved the day? notice the shot glass in back to the right? that and a bottle of jameson can do what an apple-maple reduction butter glaze too long in the oven cannot. go easy on the jameson's. no need to get your underwear in a wad, it's only a turkey. keep the proportions of jameson's to turkey equal.
i'll start with the key lime pie. my absolute best almost homemade recipe to date. 'tis the season to be jolly and all that. here's a picture for inspiration. notice how it's half gone, or half not, depending on your point of view. mouth watering yet?
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now for the pie, let's not waste another minute.
start with your own jar of key lime curd. follow the directions for tartlets that comes on a postcard --one 14 oz. can sweetened Condensed Milk with 8 oz. cream cheese. mix with a hand mixer on medium speed until uniform. mix in key lime curd on low speed until combined--with one exception...fold in 1 cup of freshly whipped whipping cream into the mixture. then pour into graham cracker pie crusts, this makes enough filling for two. (use Betty's recipe for crust.) chill for 4 hours, then top each slice with a dollop of fresh whipped whipping cream and lime peel garnish.
click on the hot links for both recipes. i'm too exhausted to write it all out after the two days of preparation it took to burn that turkey.
you will want to eat this entire pie in one sitting--it's that good--i don't care what kind of health kick you're tellin' people you're on. if need be, balance it with a large green drink beforehand--preferably your own homemade. invest in a juicer (another hot link), if for no other reason than green drinks can do for guilt, what that reduction butter glaze did for my turkey ;)
