Chad loves baklava and as I was trying to decide what to make for Thanksgiving dessert, I came across this Baklava Pumpkin Pie. I thought – perfect! It’s not your every day pumpkin pie; Chad will like it . . we all should like it. That’s what I’m making. I had everything to make it except frozen phyllo dough. Not a problem. I’ve seen it at Aldi and at Walmart. I got online to see which Walmart has it. There are seven Walmarts within 20 minutes of us. Not a single one showed it in stock. OK . . there’s Aldi. There are three of those within 20 minutes of us. Nope, they don’t have it. There are a couple of not so big name stores, checked with those. Well, darn it! Then I found a recipe for making phyllo dough from scratch. I knew that was going to be time consuming. Vince said “What are you going to do?” I told him . . I’ll just make it from scratch. The look on his face! He said “I think it’s hard!” I said “I’m up for the challenge” but I don’t think I was.
Yesterday afternoon I checked one of the neighborhood markets that’s close to us and they had it in stock. One other super center was showing that they had it but it’s on the one that’s most of the way because we never go to that part of Joplin. I told Vince . . I’m going to place a delivery order for the neighborhood market. What else do we need?
Vince: Apple Cider Vinegar
Me: Why do we need that?
Vince: That’s what we buy every time we go to that Neighborhood Market.
OK . . there was a time a year or so ago that I was having a hard time finding apple cider vinegar and that Neighborhood Market had it so we ran by there and picked up a couple of gallons. That’s funny that he thinks that’s all we buy there. When I was here before Vince came full time, that’s the store I shopped at most . . and I never bought apple cider vinegar there.
Vince doesn’t know about the pasta maker. Yesterday morning at breakfast, I said “OK . . I’ll tell you what I bought.” I couldn’t stand keeping a secret. He said “No. You were all excited about keeping it a secret . . don’t tell me.” What? That’s no fun! So, he still doesn’t know but I went ahead and ordered several small bags of different semolina flour because the pasta maker is supposed to arrive today. I’ll get a large bag of it from Azure but my next delivery won’t be til the week of December 10 so I’ll probably go through a good bit of semolina between the arrival of the pasta maker and the arrival of the Azure order.
I kept thinking . . I’m not going to count on having phyllo dough til it arrives. It arrived – 15 minutes early so I was happy! Vince was in the shower so I grabbed the semolina and stuck it in a cabinet. He never looks in the cabinets so you know will happen before he finds out about the pasta maker . . he’ll find 6 small bags of semolina in the cabinet! 🙂
Looking at tracking info for the pasta maker, I’m not so sure it will arrive today and I hope Amazon isn’t delivering on Thanksgiving Day so it may be Friday before I get it. It will be here when it gets here!