A few days after arriving back home in California, I told my mom “If you are going to make pizza, please let me know so I can plan on it for dinner!” She said “I didn’t think you would want to eat pizza since you have been living in Italy eating the “best” pizza!” I replied “I DO want to eat pizza, I want to eat YOUR homemade Pizza!” So with a little smile on her face she agreed to make me pizza.
The other day a friend knocked on my door, when I opened it, there he stood with a big smile on his face holding a white bucket full of the blackest berries you have ever seen. He had just picked the wild blackberries that morning and picked a bucket for us and for himself.
Wow! It’s a bumper crop this year, what to do with ALL those cherries? How about Homemade Cherry Pie? It’s fun and relaxing to have a Cherry Pitting Party, just sit around outside in that beautiful May Day pitting and laughing with friends and family.
Look no further, this is the Best Flakiest Butteriest Pie Crust recipe you have ever tasted!! It was passed down to my mother by an elderly friend after she had tasted one of my moms homemade pies. I guess my moms recipe wasn’t quite up to task! I love this recipe because it makes five pies worth of Pie Crust.
I love when the cherries ripen and summers bounty begins with a flurry, the first fruits of the season! My parents planted this cherry tree in their back yared 50 years ago when their dreams were just beginning and their lives together were new. Now my dad is gone and my mom holds down the Homestead. Like the tree they produced beautiful fruit in the form a family that continues to grow to this day.
