Dallas Dreams of Ginger-Berry Pie

 My mother in law is visiting, and I promised anyone who comes to visit us will get to choose the pie of the week.  She asked for a plain old berry pie, which I already made on week 3.  So I decided I could do a berry pie with a little me spice, ginger spice.  So today I made a berry pie WITH ginger.  I also got to use all of the pie making tools from my birthday. The clothe board was SO nice to roll the dough out.  I was even able to make a pretty nice lattice!  I think maybe I shouldn't have used frozen berries, since I think it made the filling too liquidy, but I guess we will see how it tastes.  I haven't eaten the pie yet because we went out for dinner and I ate too much. So we are going to eat it tomorrow when we can really enjoy it! 

(The video didn't work this week :( but I still have pictures. I will do another video next week)





Here we are eating out at the "Hideaway" YUMMY






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