My Thanksgiving pie experience....

10 years ago

I wanted to make the pies for today's dinner....but pies are not my favorite. I had cooked for two days, tired and joints hurting, so when this last pie was ready to come out of the oven, I had had enough...BUT since I have tremor in my hands, I went to lift that pumpkin pie out, my hand started shaking so badly that the pie just slid out of the crust! Talk about a mess! I just stood in disbelief, cleaned up the mess out of the oven best I could, gathered myself together, went to the store and got more ingredients and started over....but since the oven was too hot to clean very well, I took it a friend's house to bake...all was well that ended well.....but I still had to clean that darned dirty oven so I could cook the turkey etc. for today.

Everything went well today and I certainly enjoyed my children and grandchildren being here. Bless my two son-in-laws...they pitched in and carved the turkey and ham for me, and they and my girls just took over the kitchen and did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen. Meanwhile after we ate, my grandchildren put the outside decorations and the Christmas tree up for me.....what a wonderful day!

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morz8 - Washington Coast

10 years ago

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Phoggie, it does sound like a wonderful day, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I'm sorry though you have the oven to deal with. I had time to fill a request from a friend for a blackberry dessert for their dinner, and wouldn't you know, that last thing in my oven yesterday and it burbled up and over the pan side. I swear, its almost like the berries know.....if its a dessert to be carried out and taken somewhere, it just has to boil over in the oven, make baking dish sticky on the outside too. If the pastry is staying here, its always flawless.

Does your tremor bother you more when you are tired? My mothers does. She gets some relief but not a total fix from a low dose of Inderal/propranolol. Tremor is better but not gone.

It sounds like you have a very nice family, you must have raised them well.

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socks
10 years ago
Phoggie, glad all came out well in the end. Now you can rest up!
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lindaohnowga
10 years ago
With the exception of the one mess, I'm so glad you had a wonderful day with a very helpful family of yours.
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blfenton
10 years ago
So glad your day turned out so bright with the joy of your family. Happy Thanksgiving Phoggie!
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User
10 years ago
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I too am glad you're day went well too especially after the pie scenario, I don't think I would have had the tenacity to make another.
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joyfulguy
10 years ago
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Phoggie's a plucky gal, it appears!

Glad that your day went well, after that initial mess ... and that, with trembling hands, you had to clean the oven, after that, to be ready for the turkey, resulting in even more tiredness.

(Old folks are just plain stubborn, I guess - especially at times when the message is coming through, "Hey, stupid[or Mr/Ms Ornery]: you just can't *do* that any more!").

But - there's that job that needs to be done ... it can only wait for a limited period ... and there's no one else available!

Plus - "Who says that I can't do that: I've always done such things, when needed!".

ole joyful
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chisue
10 years ago
Oh, NO! Glad you pulled through and were still able to enjoy the family and the day. Our dinner concluded with two pies baked by our DGS (10), one chocolate and one pear-apple-cranberry, plus a lemon pie baked by our hostess, DIL's eldest sister. (Of course, DIL 'helped' with his pies, but DGS loves to cook and bake.)
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phoggie
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10 years ago
Morz8....Yes, I do think my tremor is worse when I am tired and anxious. They say it is an Essential Tremor....I do not think there is anything "essential" about having it!

Yes, OJ, it just makes me angry that I can not do what I used to be able to do. The girls have offered, but I keep telling them I want to do it as long as I can because there will be times when I can't, but maybe that time is coming quicker than I want to admit it.....and yes, I will admit to being stubborn about giving in to this old age!

Thanks for your kind responses.....yes, I am so blessed with a wonderful family...they are my reason for living!
jemdandy
10 years ago
LOL!!! Sorry that I laughed when I read about your pie disaster, but the thought of a pumpkin pie jumping out of its crust was too much for me to resist. Pumpkin pie is one of my favorites especially the way mother made it - ample amounts of cinnamon and nutmeg, enough to turn the pie brown.
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