My uncle is coming here tomorrow. He loves chocolate pie. My grandma always made it for him when he’d go visit her so making one for him is carrying on the tradition.
I didn’t have my favorite pie pan here yet so I used a metal pie pan that I do have and it seemed to work fine.
Once I had the pie sitting on the table to cool, the thought occurred to me . . what happens when Boots has the run of the house? Yum — meringue! I’ll bet he would enjoy that.
I think I’ll get something like a pie safe – something that’s kinda cute, and put it in the sun room. That way, I can let my bread rise in there, leave cakes, pies, things I’d normally leave on the counter . . I’ll put in there and keep the door closed. There’s a pantry in the laundry room and I can close that door too so I could leave a space open in there for things like that but I do have to remember that no place will be off limits for a cat who likes to get on top of things. If he gets into something . . it will be my fault for leaving it out . . not his fault for doing what cats do.
If I’m trying to make pasta and he seems interested, I can either move that operation to the sun room or I can always put Boots in the sewing room and close the door til I’m done.
We’ll figure it all out. Today I feel like letting him loose in the house. I think he’s ready to do more exploring. But . . the guy is here working on the gutters and he comes in to use the restroom. Tomorrow my uncle will be here so I think I’ll wait til it’s just us here and then let him out but he still has to go back in the sewing room or the sun room Thanksgiving when we have more people here.
Sara Fridley says
I’ll bet you are thrilled to be having family around for Thanksgiving after so many years of living far away. Good for you!!
Ruth says
Would you please share your chocolate pie recipe, complete with meringue? We love chocolate pie!!
Judy Laquidara says
This is the recipe I made today. I’ll report back tomorrow on how everyone liked it: https://spicysouthernkitchen.com/old-fashioned-chocolate-meringue-pie/
Andrea in MO says
Boots might not even care about the counters. Ours got up on them a few times when we first brought them home, but after yelling at them they didn’t get up there. My mom said they probably did it when we weren’t around, but nothing was ever disturbed. We could have food on the counter and leave the room and they never ate it. They would hang out wherever we were eating hoping for some, but they wouldn’t jump on the counter to steal anything. I have friends who can’t keep their cats off anything, so I think it’s individual to the cat.
Carolyn says
I put things i don’t want the cats to touch in the microwave. They can’t get into that!
Leslie says
I had a cat that got on counters but she only ate butter. Until the time she was staying with some friends of ours, when she ate almost an entire lemon meringue pie. She left the crust.
Judy Laquidara says
Oh, no! That’s not funny but it kinda made me laugh.