My family got really excited about all of the significant digits possible this year, so yesterday on 3.14.15 at 9:26:53 am, they ate Impossible Pie--a savory breakfast pie.
When we talked to them later, I heard that another pie was also on its way :) Go here for the recipe for my Great-Grandma's Banana Cream Pie.
Our pies were not such that we could have used pi to calculate circumference, area or volume..because they weren't round. Nonetheless they were tasty :)
The (key) lime pie was especially delicious. We used this recipe but used 4 eggs, because they were not large, never mind extra large. Now, I am gratefully in a current health where I don't feel the need to be counting eggs or cholesterol.
(But I do have a random memory about cholesterol: listening to the audiobook of 'Chasing Redbird' (I think..or some book by Sharon Creech) and the one girl who flips out about cholesterol in all forms. She repeatedly explains that she could not eat that food or that food (while visiting) because of CHO-LES-TER-OL. She insists on yogurt, which then has to be bought..).
This recipe was a baking recipe whereas this other recipe from my mom is a pie to chill; it uses no eggs and instead yogurt. In fact this particular version is a key lime banana cream pie, if you're in for combos :) I'm sure you could make it without the bananas just fine as well :)
And then for another celebration: Carnival or "Fasching". Here is a brief, mostly pictorial, report on our school celebration of carnival, to begin the Christian liturgical season of Lent. Germans have been celebrating this much longer than Halloween. Kids dress up for this (although they've also been celebrating Halloween more and more in recent years).
We learned about one version of this tradition while on my mission. We were in a little village and we saw kids and adults dressed up and parading through the streets. They were going door to door and getting candy--or, more traditionally, eggs, flour, ham to then make crepes! Even better than candy :) (or at least as good as...)
Back to our celebration. The theme for the first grade was fairy tales, so I drew a castle on the board
and I dressed up as Snow White.
We played games,
like Fruit Basket
and Musical Chairs (or "Reise nach Jerusalem" (Journey to Jerusalem)).
I played the music on my fiddle.
Aren't we cute?
Later I even made a 7-dwarves-bracelet to go to the Carnival celebration of the class where I had my practicum last year.
When we talked to them later, I heard that another pie was also on its way :) Go here for the recipe for my Great-Grandma's Banana Cream Pie.
Our pies were not such that we could have used pi to calculate circumference, area or volume..because they weren't round. Nonetheless they were tasty :)
(But I do have a random memory about cholesterol: listening to the audiobook of 'Chasing Redbird' (I think..or some book by Sharon Creech) and the one girl who flips out about cholesterol in all forms. She repeatedly explains that she could not eat that food or that food (while visiting) because of CHO-LES-TER-OL. She insists on yogurt, which then has to be bought..).
This recipe was a baking recipe whereas this other recipe from my mom is a pie to chill; it uses no eggs and instead yogurt. In fact this particular version is a key lime banana cream pie, if you're in for combos :) I'm sure you could make it without the bananas just fine as well :)
And then for another celebration: Carnival or "Fasching". Here is a brief, mostly pictorial, report on our school celebration of carnival, to begin the Christian liturgical season of Lent. Germans have been celebrating this much longer than Halloween. Kids dress up for this (although they've also been celebrating Halloween more and more in recent years).
We learned about one version of this tradition while on my mission. We were in a little village and we saw kids and adults dressed up and parading through the streets. They were going door to door and getting candy--or, more traditionally, eggs, flour, ham to then make crepes! Even better than candy :) (or at least as good as...)
Back to our celebration. The theme for the first grade was fairy tales, so I drew a castle on the board
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| Here one of our three mermaids wanted to be in the picture. |
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| Here I am, ever attentive :) with Red-Riding-Hood |
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