Petite Ruddy Pies | Summertime Baking Alongside Emma | Novel Products Tomorrow

I mentioned that I'm taking roughly fourth dimension this summertime to non work. I am, however, silent cooking, baking together with decorating at home, hence it turns out that me non working silent looks a lot similar me "working." : )

When Emma was very picayune (0-8 months), I was silent able to create, photograph together with write posts. I would exercise my hands on activities spell she was napping or spell she was watching me from her seat. I rocked her to sleep, hence held her spell I typed together with edited photos 1 handedly. I had hours together with hours to run on my estimator spell belongings her.

Then came the moving stages - the I can't accept an optic off of her or she'd endure upwardly the stairs (or worse, down) or out the door inwards twenty seconds. Working spell she was habitation became frustrating. Frustrating because I felt similar I was 50%ing everything. So, I made a rule, I alone worked when she was at schoolhouse during the schoolhouse twelvemonth (anywhere from 8-15 hours a week). When she got home, I was all hers. That is where nosotros had been for the final iii years.

Emma is habitation from schoolhouse for the summer, together with I've discovered something : 4-year-olds are amazing. We spent the entire morn inwards the kitchen baking these pies together with straightaway she is likewise busy to bother amongst me. So, hither I am amongst an hr to sit down down, edit photos together with write a postal service spell she is playing past times herself. (She is currently creating roughly kind of conduct chances amongst a backpack total of marshmallows together with cushions from the couch... when I asked what she was playing she said, "Nothing, Mommmmm." inwards the musical note nosotros all know hence well.)

I larn dorsum together with forth betwixt making this weblog a reflection of my life, or letting this weblog conduct maintain a life of its own. As Emma grows, I desire to give her privacy together with liberty from everything nosotros portion equally a household unit of measurement to endure shared here. However, I exercise experience compelled to portion my ideas on living good together with inspiring others equally a especial purpose of my calling. I know that many of you lot conduct maintain the same life values equally nosotros exercise together with dear seeing how I execute them for our household unit of measurement - from entertaining to decorating to baking on a Mon morning. It helps us to read each others stories together with endure inspired past times each other. I volition continually strive to discovery my balance. For now, I am enjoying sharing these sugariness existent life photos of Emma together with I slowing downwardly together this morn inwards the kitchen.

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Easy Petite

Cherry Pies

makes iii petite pies

1/2 recipe of pie dough, here Petite Tart Pans ($5-6 for 10)
iii cups of tart cherries (I used frozen, thawed)

1/2 loving cup of sugar

iii tablespoons of cornstarch

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1 tablespoon of butter

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carbohydrate for topping

Dough : Make pie dough equally directed. Roll out on floured surface. Cut rounds 1-inch larger than tart pans. Leave scraps for making lattice top. Press dough into the pans.

Make Filling : In a bowl, stir together cherries, sugar, cornstarch together with salt. Spoon into crusts. (I endeavour to exit equally much juice equally possible inwards the bowl hence the pies aren't soggy.)

Lattice Top : Roll out leftover dough. Cut sparse strips of dough. Weave them over the top. Pinch the sides hence the complete is neat. Sprinkle generously amongst carbohydrate on the top.

Bake : Place the petite pies on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for xv minutes. Reduce oestrus to 350, comprehend amongst foil together with bake for the 5-10 minutes.

Products Used :

Petite Tart Pans ($5-6 for 10)

Baking Sheet $7-8

Parchment Paper $8