Skipping Stones Records

Skipping Stones Records hosted a Pie Party for Niklas, Bjorn & Stefanie, visiting from Germany to mix their album for Karpatenhund. They love a good American pie and I was obliged to make an apple pie from scratch. It's been many years since I've made a pie crust, but I did some research and I dare say everything came back to me in a snap!

Here is Stefanie, Bjorn and Locas with many pies! Our friend Karen brought no less than THREE pies, shown in the photo. They included; pumpkin pie, cherry pie and a yummy rum cream concoction.



I made quite a mess, but it was a lot of fun. Here's a pic of the pie operation. I love to cook, so I got pretty ambitious and made several other kinds of pie, too, including a Greek spinach pie with phyllo dough and an amazing leek tart. I found a beautiful website with some great recipes at Simply Recipes. This is where I got the great pie crust recipe! The leek tart had a homemade crust with roasted leeks in olive oil, mushrooms, shallots and fresh sage. I wish I had made more!


Here's my stove with good things:


We had our guests overnight and today was a wonderful day of nothingness. Waking up to fresh coffee, bagels, sitting around and talking, reading magazines (when do I ever have the time to do that?) and ... more pie!