I love when it seems the universe conspires to make me laugh. And today was one of those days.
I woke up to an email message that today was National Pie Day. Which made me wish I had some pie in the house, because truly pie is best for breakfast. You may think otherwise, but you’d be wrong.
But alas there was no pie, and after settling for something considerably less exciting, I took a moment to draw a morning Tarot card which is my practice of late. And what did I draw? The card from Susan Shie’s Kitchen Tarot, equivalent of the traditional Sun card, her very own Mom and Apple Pie card. Yes!
I really like this deck. Shie is a wonderful artist and each of the cards is actually a very large fabric art piece. Do take a minute and peek. Wonderful isn’t it?
Of course all these pie thoughts sent me recipe hunting. My CSA box this week included a wonderful supply of mushrooms, and a bit of searching turned up what looks to be a delicious mushroom-in-béchamel-sauce pie. Oh my!
Less than an hour into my day and I’ve already thought about apple pie, savory mushroom pie, and then my mind naturally turns to the one pie that seems most out of reach. The original tin toy pie from the 50s that cranks out the tune “Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie” and then at song’s end, sweet little crows pop out of slits in the pie. Swoon. I had a hand-me down one when I was a kid, and clearly I’m not over my love affair. My cousin recently pointed out one for sale on eBay (actually a later 60s model) that was going for $80 and the crows didn’t actually pop up anymore. Sigh. So my crow pie pursuit continues.
But all that pie thinking warmed up some brain synapses and I suddenly thought of pied crows. As in black-and-white pied, like in the photo above. But pied also meaning in-a-crust as well. Pied Pied. Totally cracked me up.
And then for the final pie-ce de resistance, I was poking around some more in my newly re-discovered Idea Reliquary journal (you can see it here), and on one of the pages where I was capturing food proverbs, this was written:
“A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.” – Russian proverb
Pie anyone?
What a great post and what a lovely way to start your day wishing you had a piece of pie to eat. From reading all of your post I feel that you absolutely need to have a piece of pie before the end of your day. Thanks for sharing abou the tarot cards. I love oracle cards and have always been curious about the tarot cards also. Will check out this deck.
Oh do check out the deck Suzanne. I think it’d be a lovely intro to Tarot. It only has the majors so that makes it easier; but it’s fun to see the traditional meanings of the cards reflected through a new lens – that of familiar kitchen language. And the art is SO rich!
Sounds like you had a full belly by the end of the day 🙂 And now I’m hungry and all I can do is visualize a bunch of black crows sticking out of the top of a pie. LOL
LOL Michele. Maybe you need a little snack to take the edge of that hunger. How about some Crows – those black licorice dots with the fabulous name. 😉
Deborah, What a sensuous post! and I love the ending note about kindness being better than a FAT pie. Made me chuckle. I hope the perfect tin pie finds you soon.
Thanks Janet – I’m holding hope my tin crow pie shows up soon too. And I had to laugh at the FAT pie proverb as well.
I love the photo, the reference to pies and pretty soon it will be Pi day. March 14. 3.14 for the people who hate math.
One year I made a strawberry rhubarb pie for an Algebra 2 class on pi day and one boy thought it was the most delicious pie he had ever eaten. Quite a compliment. Thanks for the post.
How fun Sheila to bring pie for Pi day – and strawberry rhubard sounds delicious. Hmm, I think you have me counting off the days until 3-14. 🙂
This made me smile all the way through. I think those pied ravens are incredible cool looking birds. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Arwen. I agree about the pied beauties – but I’m pretty partial to all corvoids. Love ’em all.