I am good at making pie pastry.  It is one of my few talents.  I even won a pie baking contest.  The New Jersey Peach Council held a peach pie competition in every county one year.  Whomever won their county’s contest moved on to the finals for the overall best New Jersey Peach Pie title.  Well, I won in my county, but, get this, the Jersey Peach Council accidentally left me off the email regarding when the final competition would be, so I missed it!  Son of gun.  They must have felt badly, because they offered me a chance to go on New York’s channel 11 morning news  to demonstrate how to roll out pie dough.  I made the big time!  My husband drove me into the city early one morning.  When we got to the news studio, I was ushered into a room to get my make-up done.  I felt important as I sat there in that make-up chair getting dolled up.  When I was just about camera ready,  the make-up lady asked me, “So, how many pies did you eat?”  She thought I was there because I had won some pie eating contest.  Ouch. That was humbling.  Continue reading →