Let me start this first post by saying that we're potty training. What better way to celebrate our freedom than to lock ourselves up in the house and potty train our stubborn, strong willed 3 year old. It's not going as bad as I was expecting, but it does make this mama realllll tired and reallll punchy (feeling way better now that I'm sipping a margarita). We had one accident and two successes, Praise the good Lord for that! BUT in the midst of saying "go sit on your potty Olive" more than a hundred times today, I got hungry and wanted a treat. We recently went to the 12th South Peach Festival and got a lot of yummy produce and a big bag of The Peach Truck peaches! They are so good, and I've been wanting to bake a sweet something with them..which turned into challenge number one - Make something new with only things I find in my pantry. I found my peaches, some blueberries, a roll of pizza dough, sugar, and vanilla extract, and decided to try out blueberry peach hand pies. I've made pies in the past, but my biggest challenge in the kitchen is getting overwhelmed with tons of ingredients, so I figured this would be great, only a few ingredients and I mean, how hard is it to mess up some pre-made dough, some fruit, and some sugar.. I measured out about a half cup of blueberries, cut up two peaches (and then realized I only needed one, so Danny used the rest for a yummy corn, peach, tomato, basil salad, thanks babe!) some sugar, and a roll of pizza dough. If you're feeling extra inspired, these pies would probably be even better with homemade dough (but we're potty training, so who even has time for that??) I rolled the dough out and cut it with a wide mouth mason jar and filled the pies with a little bit of each fruit and a sprinkle of sugar. Then I topped them with an egg wash mixed with a little more sugar (about 2 tsp for the 8 pies) and a bit of vanilla extract. Popped those babies in the oven on 390 for about 15 minutes. I realize this is not your normal blog recipe post, but I was absolutely winging it with what I had, so these are rough estimates! I really love how they turned out (and we all know that I was praying that at least one would look pretty enough to snap a photo of, luckily I got three, ha!) Baking stresses me OUT. Well, cooking, in general, gives me anxiety. You'll learn that pretty quickly if you continue to read on. I get overwhelmed with the process, get real frustrated if things look different or it doesn't work the way it says it's supposed to. And also, who really has tapioca flour or xanthan gum just lying around?? I sure don't. BUT I'm realizing that for one, things don't have to be super complicated to be awesome (I mean there were five ingredients in these hand pies). And two, learning to be patient in the process is half the battle. Patience is not my strong suit (another thing you'll learn pretty quickly!) SO basically what I'm saying is that if you can make blueberry peach hand pies on a whim, you're probably capable of potty training your toddler! Be right back, going to eat all of them right now.
-K
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