Raise your rolling pins to the sky! It's National Pie Day!!

    It's National Pie Day my friends!  On this day, I chose to make a blackberry-peach pie.  Blackberries are so lovely in a pie filling.  Peaches are fantastic any old time, in any old way.  Unfortunately, the peaches were not quiet ripe.  The pie is very tasty but would be out of this world if the peaches were ripe enough.  But then this is what you get baking with fruit that is clearly out of season.  I mean it is January after all!  In fact, at this very moment it is a startling 1 degree outside.  At least there is snow on the ground.  Snow makes everything better!
    During my morning of pie making, I listened to Fashion Nugget by CAKE.  And as I was singing along with the songs and dancing across the kitchen floor, I wondered if this was somehow pie sacrilege. But then one of my favorite covers of all time came on - "I Will Survive".   That thought flew right out of my head.  Listening to CAKE is always glorious.  I mean here is a band who covered the classic "I Will Survive" and, in my opinion, made it better.  Here is a band that has given us songs with titles such as : "Sheep Go to Heaven", "Pentagram" and "Stickshifts and Safety Belts".  Yes, the name CAKE may bring to mind the sweet arch enemy of pie.  But PIE is the new cupCAKE.... Haven't you heard?

I Will Survive -- CAKE