Okay this is what I've done this morning... I think it took longer to type this all out than to do it!
- made coffee
- 3/14 = pie day
- found 2 cans of peaches in the cupboard
- started moving all the cans from top to bottom cupboard
- reorganized other cupboards to consolidate coffee/teas and spices
- got a chair so i could reach top cupboards
- moved the chair to clean the inside of the microwave from the chili i heated up yesterday morning and splattered everywhere
- surfed the internet to rest my arms and looked up peach pie recipes... here is my "rookie" recipe:
Jo's Leftover Peach Pie
Strain juice out of 2 cans of peach halves you found in the back of the cupboard.Dump into bowl and squeeze the juice of a half a lemon over it.In another bowl, combine the following: 1/3 cup crushed walnuts, 1/2 tsp of pumpkin pie spice (didn't have nutmeg so this was the closest I could get - else it's 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, maybe) 1 tbsp brown sugarArrange peach halves (center up) in the one Tenderflake frozen crust you had leftover in the freezer - take one at a time so you don't pour in the bit of juice leftover in the bowl. Add a spoonful of cornstarch to the bowl to use up the juice (probably 30ml cornstarch with 30 ml juice? I don't remember) and mix to thicken. Add walnut mixture in and toss. Oh, add a few drops of vanilla extract too. Evenly sprinkle crunchy mixture over the peaches in the pie. Bake for 30 minutes at 400 F on the lower rack (I don't know why, but that's what I did). Remove to cooling rack and let it sit for 45 minutes at least. Then take a few pictures and dig in. 
I actually baked it at 350 for about 10 minutes, then cranked it up to 425 for about 20 minutes more after checking some other recipes. Do whatever you like. I don't know if this even qualifies as a pie because there's no top but peach halves look very pretty with the walnuts inside. Maybe more juice and cornstarch if you want the filling to be more gooey but the peaches stayed more intact this way and I kinda like it. Quite sure I'll never make it same way again... that's the way it goes!
So by this time it's maybe 10:30 and I'm getting hungry. My awesome friend Eva had made me chicken satay that needed to be grilled so then I fire up the barbeque and get started...
Open fridge door and get out marinated chicken satay, the bag of red peppers.
Look in cupboards for skewers, then change my mind because it's too messy.
Get distracted by cupboards and reorganize a bit more.
Notice the
experimental yam* bought on Wednesday and go online to look for bbq yam recipes. Here is what I came up with:
Aromatic BBQ Yam Steak FriesCut yam into wedges, think a little bigger than steak fries. Drizzle and toss with olive oil (a.k.a. e.v.o.o.).
Add sprinkling of salt, dried basil and dried rosemary and toss some more. Place on bbq and turn every 4-5 minutes over medium heat for about 20 minutes or so. Drizzle more e.v.o.o. as needed about halfway through and sprinkle with brown sugar too. Remove from bbq onto one of those super cheap ikea plate/bowls and sprinkle with brown sugar and dash of cayenne pepper. Cover with foil so it melts the brown sugar and doesn't dry out. Eat at your leisure as you blog about your food-adventures.That was a good one. Had the bbq on pretty low heat and it worked out well because I cooked the chicken satays on the left, yams on the right and had one red pepper in the middle. Fell in love with grilled peppers over the Weber-Q episode 1. Something to salivate over, messily eat with hands, sweet like candy, smoky rich flavour... *makes Homer Simpson drooling noise*
So it's only 11:45 by the time I turn off the propane and I'm super stuffed right now on pie, chicken, and yams. The pepper has been ignored because I can't type with messy fingers. I drizzled honey over the chicken because it got a bit dry and then swiped peanut butter on the side of the bowl to dip.
My morning of fasting, cleaning and praying has turned into a crazy feast.
Why does this always happen to me?
* I like to buy different food products I don't usually eat so I can learn to use it. I bought canned crabmeat (like canned tuna) from Costco ages ago and finally made a crab-pesto cream sauce with pasta on Tuesday - that was awesome. Come to think of it, the little jar of imported pesto was bought even longer ago!
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