You Have to Love Pie

Well,

I've officially started breaking in the new apartment with baked goods...because a place I live in is not home until baking has taken place. I plan to do more of it in the next few days, if it gets less humid, and would like to use some of the equipment I haven't broken in yet...like the madeleine pan!!! But last weekend I made the first pie I've made in a very long time...quite a pricey pie also, since I used 2 pints of black rasberries from the farmer's market at $5 a pop, though the blueberries were much more reasonable...So yah, blackrasblueberry pie. And I have to say, I was worried...because it has been such a long time since I've made pie...and have never used black rasberries, which were somewhat sweet but also somewhat tart, and very ripe and tender...which poses all kinds of challenges in terms of estimating how much sugar and tapioca/cornstarch to use to sweeten and thicken it...but it turned out very very very well...initially a little tart, but with sweetness too, and it was lipsmacking tart, and to be honest, my mama raised me to appreciate a slightly tart pie...And whip cream balanced it out nicely...all in all, it was pretty freaking good...and the friends I shared it with thought so too...Behold:

Indeed, the pie was so worthy of celebration that I danced around my apartment singing the song I made up the last time I made an awesome pie...basically, a song about how "You Have to Love Pie" to the tune of "It Had to Be You." And the answer is yes. I'm a total spaz. Or just my father's daughter. Because my father makes up stupid songs to the tune of other songs constantly, and apparently I'm meant to carry on this venerable tradition. "You have to love Piiie...You just have to love piiiie...I can't think of whyyy, you'd try to denyyy, the bliss that is piiiie....and so on... Again, I know: I am a total spaz. But endearingly so...
Other than that, just trying to prep for my bigtime academic job which starts in a little over a month...I'm reading lots of stuff and writing syllabi, and after the syllabi are written I hope to do some writing of my own...of the scholarly academic variety... But pie. Pie is always awesome. More baking endeavors to be reported later, rest assured...