Holiday Pies

Who doesn't love a good pie around the holidays, or anytime?
We all do, and everyone has that favorite pie they love to make, me included. I have an apple cider pie recipe I've been using for years but I've gotten a little burned out on it, plus I never learned how to make a crust from scratch.
Enter Tablespoon Cooking Co.'s Holiday Pie Class. They held a special class recently at New Riff and we'd be cooking a Bourbon Caramel Apple Pie. Just thinking about it hard my mouth watering. The pie class is the third cooking class I've attended. They make for an awesome date night, new real-world tricks and techniques are learned and everyone has a good time.
My big take away is that crusts aren't as hard as I thought they would be, they take time, but there wasn't any magic involved.
You should definitely check out one of their many classes, each one covers one or more skills necessary to more proficiently cook at home.











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This is half about a bar, and half about a streetcar.

Saturday was full of hitting events in OTR and shopping at Findlay Market and Vine St. So naturally it included riding the wildly successful streetcar from downtown and all over OTR. After our last stop, we walked to the Washington Park streetcar stop at 12th and Race and the sign said it would be arriving in 11 minutes.
Let's walk to the corner and check out Cobblestone, I suggested, it just opened. When we got to the corner Ms. 5chw4r7z thought we might as well go in and get a drink. We ordered, got our drinks and I told the bartender the bar looked amazing.
Thanks, he said, and check this, when that streetcar light turns blue the streetcar is six minutes away from the Washington Park stop.
What?? That is amazing. And then I started thinking back about all the talk when the streetcar was first proposed and this was one of the promises. Businesses would have LED signs to let patrons know when it was close. I'm surprised more places haven't done it. I can think of a number right off the top of my head that would benefit. Sundry & Vice and Corkopolis come to mind.
As we got close to the bottom of our drinks we started milking them until the like turned blue, we downed our drinks, strolled out and got on the streetcar and headed home.




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