Going to the farmers’ market is one of the highlights of my week. I always buy way too much, especially at this time of year. How can anyone resist those big beautiful cauliflowers or the last-of-the-season bright red cherry tomatoes, dark green string beans or one of two last ears of corn?
The other day I bought way too much. Everything looked just so beautiful! (Thank goodness over the years I have switched my passion for expensive shoes to fresh local produce. It’s hard to lug all this bounty home in a pair of YSL heels!)
So there I was in my kitchen staring at all this stuff and wondering what I could make. Everything was very ripe, perfect right now, some things definitely wouldn’t keep for long.
I’ve been consumed with thinking about pies and pies and more pies. Of course, silly woman, let’s make a pie. Wow! I had actually not made a savory pie in ages. That was the answer.
Into the pot went cauliflower, sweet potatoes, onions, spinach, cherry tomatoes, corn, a bunch of different herbs like parsley, dill, basil. Then I sautéed some Italian turkey sausage from DiPaolo in a little bit of left over red wine and threw that in.
Making pie dough has become second nature to me. This one was speckled with a generous grinding of black pepper. I rolled it out and covered the dish with it, dabbed a bit of milk on the top, slit a few steam holes and popped it into the oven.
I wish I had a picture of my boys eating it. Pot pie! Yum! They didn’t even care what was in it, the idea of pot pie put an instant smile on both of their faces. And then when they dug in, well, it was pretty quiet at the dinner table that night.
The other day I bought way too much. Everything looked just so beautiful! (Thank goodness over the years I have switched my passion for expensive shoes to fresh local produce. It’s hard to lug all this bounty home in a pair of YSL heels!)
So there I was in my kitchen staring at all this stuff and wondering what I could make. Everything was very ripe, perfect right now, some things definitely wouldn’t keep for long.
I’ve been consumed with thinking about pies and pies and more pies. Of course, silly woman, let’s make a pie. Wow! I had actually not made a savory pie in ages. That was the answer.
Into the pot went cauliflower, sweet potatoes, onions, spinach, cherry tomatoes, corn, a bunch of different herbs like parsley, dill, basil. Then I sautéed some Italian turkey sausage from DiPaolo in a little bit of left over red wine and threw that in.
Making pie dough has become second nature to me. This one was speckled with a generous grinding of black pepper. I rolled it out and covered the dish with it, dabbed a bit of milk on the top, slit a few steam holes and popped it into the oven.
I wish I had a picture of my boys eating it. Pot pie! Yum! They didn’t even care what was in it, the idea of pot pie put an instant smile on both of their faces. And then when they dug in, well, it was pretty quiet at the dinner table that night.
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