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CNYEats A Taste of Utica Custard Pie

On page 208 of our book A Taste of Utica is the delicious recipe for custard pie from Marie Carbone and posted by Rainie Piccione. Thanks for sharing ladies! The first recipe is the original from our book. The second recipe was my own creation baked as an after thought. I made an easy graham cracker crumb crust and since I didn’t have milk, I used sour cream and mascarpone cheese. Since fruit is a major part of my diet, I even added an over ripe banana. The original custard pie from A Taste of Utica Preheat the oven to [...]

By Joanne|2013-04-10T18:03:43-04:00April 10, 2013|Taste of Utica|Comments Off

Fort2Fort 10K 2013 and Peaches and Cheese Pie

RomanRunners held their annual 5K and 10K race called the Fort2Fort. A nice course and good crowd. I didn’t know how the run would go other than treating it as the speed workout I missed earlier in the week but since my heel has been hurting and I’ve had a few other leg issues, I’d wait and see what happened once I started running. The temperature was cold, 29 degrees but the sun was shining and when the sun shines there is so much energy in the air. A “ready-set-go” start at 9 am and all 237 10K runners [...]

By Joanne|2013-04-06T13:25:55-04:00April 6, 2013|Baking|3 Comments

Redefining Momentum and Cocoa Date Pie

During our 14 hour trip to South Carolina, I was able to read a few chapters of “The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel” by Matt Fitzgerald. I found an interesting explanation of running momentum. Typically, we think of momentum as something that makes a body in motion harder to stop once it’s moving. In Fitzgerald’s book, momentum is described as occurring when there is a period of improvement in fitness that seems to have its own driving force. In a race, the circumstances are right and things are clicking. The runner feels assured that improvement will continue because “luck” [...]

By Joanne|2011-12-30T20:52:37-05:00December 30, 2011|Baking|1 Comment

Why Hide it? and Pumpkin Pie Libby Style

Shane has a routine. He refuses to eat his breakfast until he gets a treat. Sometimes that treat is a raw hide chew (aka “chewy”). I stuff a little piece of dried meat inside the crevices and then Shane nibbles away to get the dried meat from the rawhide. He then leaves the room with the chewy, comes back to the breakfast table and grabs a different toy for us to toss around the room. We have no idea why he leaves the room nor where he goes. This morning, Ted got curious and looked all over for that raw [...]