Let's Cook Pies with Penny and Ellie

Penny and Ellie assembled a dozen pie-makers at Let's Cook on Hennepin Avenue. Scott Rosenbaum, a delightful Nebraskan chef, started out the evening's work with an apple galette.



Dried Fruit Pie Team 1: Penny and Lynn. Where's Ellie?

Here she is working with Lynn and Penny to make the dried fruit pie.

Cranberry Walnut Pie Team 2: Margaret, Kyle, and Janella

Apple Pie Team 3: Suzanne and Mimi. Where's Peggy? Taking pictures.

Thoroughbred Pie (aka Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie) Team 4: Gracy, Ruth Ann, and Jane

Pie makers hard at work in the Let's Cook kitchen.

Scott demonstrates the leak-proof crimp and then makes it pretty too.

Ramon checks the pies.

Team 1's Dried Fruit Pie
The "V" shaped vent celebrates victory over the vegetable shortening crust!

A slice of Dried Fruit Pie

Team 2's Cranberry Walnut Pie
This just says "holiday" all over it. It is the taste of the holidays too.

A slice of Cranberry Walnut Pie.

Team 3's Apple Pie
The butter crust was so tasty.

A slice of Apple Pie
Bob and I added Sebastian Joe's vanilla ice cream to this--it was divine.

Team 4's Thoroughbred Pie or Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Isn't this gorgeous?

A slice of Thoroughbred Pie
Can you imagine how we waddled out of the kitchen after sampling each of these pies AND Scott's galette starter?

The Let's Cook pie makers: Ramon, Scott, Christa, and Karen. They are great cheerleaders.

Peggy, Susan, and Penny
You'll find more photos at Peggy's Flickr site.

An Oskaloosa visit

Liz and Barbara drove from St Cloud to meet Peggy in Minnetonka.













Before Barb returned to St. Cloud, she snapped this photo of Liz and Peggy as they were getting ready to drive to Oskaloosa to see the Siebens family and their great aunt, Theresa.












Before dinner, Theresa and Liz look over some old photo albums.








After dinner, Theresa watches Linda and Liz hang a string of Halloween lanterns.




John, Alan, Josiah, Linda, Luke and Anthony surround Theresa for a family photo.

Great great nephew Josiah doesn't like to miss a photo op! Here he is with Liz, Peggy and Theresa.

Linda says to mark Saturday, July 19, 2008, on your calendar to have supper in Oskaloosa to celebrate Theresa's 98th and a half birthday. Plans are in the making. Now is the time to make suggestions if you'd like. We welcome all ideas. Peggy will email you within the next few weeks with the initial thoughts.


Liz' friend, Shadow, was very happy to see her when we returned to St. Cloud on Friday afternoon. It was a quick visit to Iowa but we had a good time and talked and talked and talked while we were driving down and back. We are looking forward to doing it again!