Consolation Pie

Tonight we hit the final show in my birthday ticket series, and the best thing about the whole affair was the pie. Unfortunately, we left the show (The Who's Tommy) at intermission. The singers had intonation and articulation problems, the volume was WAY too loud, and the actors were moving around the stage as if they thought they were doing CATS. It was a sad night, indeed.

Still, by the time we arrived home we had thoroughly panned the show and successfully mocked the singers while strutting through the doorway with melodramatic poise. The good news is we were home an hour earlier than expected and there was a pie waiting on the counter. The bad news is the pie was not the one I planned because the show snuck up on me this week. Previously I had decided to make an ice cream pie, but that was before the work week intervened and the tickets fell on Friday instead of Saturday. So our consolation pie is a Marie Callendar's razzleberry (my favorite) that we picked up for half price a couple of weeks ago and Jeff (thankfully) put in the oven this afternoon. The sweet tart blackberries and raspberries oozing out of a flaky crust taste great with a cold glass of milk.

Dinner was a hodgepodge tonight, as well. The ragamuffin wasn't particularly interested in eating early because he had opted out of tonight's performance in favor of playing a video game with friends. (Apparently he had some premonition of the outcome which he neglected to share with us.) Jeff found orange chicken with veggies and rice in the freezer, but that just didn't trip my trigger. I was in the mood for salty/crunchy, so I combined a can of spicy chili beans, a can of mushrooms, a can of black olives (which I sliced), and some Velveeta. Upon nuking this concoction for a couple of minutes, I had a cheesy, spicy dip fit for some lovely white corn tortilla chips with lime. Mmmm....tasty. Both Jeff and I had leftovers for the boy, which he chowed down later.

Even though we ate different dishes at alternate times and went our separate ways for the evening's entertainment, the end of the night found us together enjoying our traditional pie and laughing over our misadventures. Knowing that no matter where we go or what we do we'll wind up safe at home gives us the strength to do battle with the world every day. Well, that and pie.