I didn’t really follow a recipe but I found a vegan crust that I liked. It called for coconut oil instead of butter. For the filling I used a mixture of fresh raspberries, flour, and sugar (although next time if I do an open faced pie I could cook the mixture a bit first). I baked it for about 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven and it was ready to eat. It was really good. I even had some for breakfast the following day.
What’s your favorite kind of pie?
In my 10 months since moving here making friends has been a bit slow. The few I’ve made though are pretty great. One of them is my friend Emma. She started out as a very convenient friend because she lived 2 doors down from me in our complex. She turned out to be a very good friend and it was nice to call her last minute to have girl talks and watch Gilmore Girls or knit.
A little while ago she found out she was awarded the Fulbright and that she’d be headed to Nepal in August. Pretty awesome right!? Yes and a little sad for me. She drove off toward home at the end of June but a couple of days before that Walker and I had a picnic with her and another friend to send her off with happy memories of her last few days here. I also gave her a tiny Washington state necklace with the heart over Seattle so she could remember her time here while she is in Nepal.
P.S. These pictures of her are so cute! We’ll miss you in Seattle Emma!
Do you know a friend who is moving? A state or country necklace might be the perfect going away present. See more options at shopohsoantsy.
We started off our day picking raspberries and strawberries at the same place I recently went strawberry picking. So now I can also check raspberries off my must pick list. Woo! They were a little picked over since we arrived later in the afternoon but if you worked for it (getting up and under the bushes) you could still find a lot of larger and super ripe berries. Mmm…
Walker and I had been invited to a party a few miles north but we weren’t really in the mood to bike. Instead we packed a few bags with snacks and games and walked down to the highway overlook. It sounds like a funny place to watch the fireworks but we basically had front row seats. They weren’t super close but there was no one in front of us and we had a full view of the harbor and the surrounding neighborhoods.
After hours of waiting a lot more people showed up and a little while after 10 the fireworks finally got going. It was a good show and afterwards we headed home through the crowds and quickly found our way to bed. We were exhausted. Overall a pretty good first 4th of July in Seattle.
^this one is kind of crazy because you can see the smoke from a fire that started a little while before the fireworks started. yikes!
