Pie time!

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Friday marked the opening of our hometown’s fall fair, which also means it was our pie party!

Our friend Stef walking to the fair

Oma and Micaela walking to the fair

Before the pie party most of us gathered together at the official opening of fair. Our fair has been around for 151 years! After a long day of judging the winners are announced and awards are given out. This year we had a first for our fair, a male was announced as the fair ambassador.

Mom was the homecraft director this year.

Once all the homecraft, school fair, and crop awards are given out, there’s one thing left… the pie auction! Basically the pie auction is a fundraiser for the fair, to keep it running year after year. 15 pies are auctioned off- 1st, 2nd and 3rd in 4 different categories. (Last year Micaela and I made pies and they won so they were auctioned off!). This year we brought home 3 pies to our party (bought by 3 different families).

Expensive pie!

As you can see the pies at our party ranged in price from $230 -$300, but we also bought 2 pies that were not auctioned off for a much cheaper price ($9.00).

The line up of pies

We had cherry pie, apple pie, raspberry pie, unknown (possibly plum?) pie, and peach pie. The raspberry pie was the favourite overall.

Close up of the raspberry pie

I’ll post more about Saturday & Sunday at the fair tomorrow. (See pictures on flickr if you are interested in getting a preview!)

What’s the most you would pay for a prize winning pie?

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Aug

21

Mmm Muffins

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I baked some muffins last night and they were really good! I found the recipe from this blog: Miss Alyssa and knew I had to make it. Scott Loves blueberries and I’m quite fond of them myself.

These muffins really made me want to bake more. Mom used to make us chocolate chip bran muffins for breakfast all the time. There’s nothing better then waking up to go to school with the smell of muffins baking! (Lauren makes these all the time now and Scott raves about them)

Blueberry Lemon Muffins

2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup light brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind
Juice from the two lemons
1 1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1 egg
1 pint bluberries

Heat oven to 350°F. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, whisk the egg, lemon zest and juice, milk and oil and add the flour. Stir in blueberries. Mix just until combined. Drop into muffin tins, lined for easy cleanup. Bake for about 15 minutes or until tops are golden and spring back when pressed.

*I used half whole wheat flour half white flour. Also I made 12 muffins and put the rest of the batter in the fridge to make more fresh muffins on the weekend!*

*Picture edited in picnik*

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