Pie Tastings and Dragon Fly sightings

The Leaves this last week have turned from intense bright yellows, oranges, and reds--- to a more muted tone. It's this time of year that starts to give me some real anxiety (which is not anything new if you know me).... It is so incredibly beautiful out, and the air is perfect and the colors are amazing...but yet I start getting freaked out that snow is right around the corner...and a very long winter. I've caught myself more than once telling Ellery that I wish it could be like this all year, and never change. I guess if i wanted to beat the seasons, I should be living somewhere else. However- I think the reason I love Maine so much is because of the seasons--- you really earn your sort of spring/summer, and fall because you go through about 5 months of winter!

Anyway in other news- I had a Pie Tasting last week at THE CAVE in Brooklin- a fantastic wine, cheese, and chocolate shop that I use to work at. My friend Laura so generously let me have Pies and cakes out for sample to get the word out about SARAHNDIPITY PIES AND BAKED GOODS.
On the menu: Pumpkin Pie with a Chocolate Ganache (see picture), Apple-Raspberry Pie, Plum Torte, Flour less Chocolate Cake with a chocolate ganache, Bacon-Blue Cheese-Leek Quiche and Bucklyn Coffee Cake cookie bars. It went really well, and I'm really hoping I get loads of Pie orders for Thanksgiving!

Yesterday Ellery and I went for a hike in Cape Rosier (the prettiest place on earth)--- we found a pretty cool trail that led us down to a pond that beavers had taken over. We decided to take a nap in the sun and all of a sudden tons of Dragon Flys were landing all over us. They were beautiful reds and blues. I get a real kick out of moments in life like this. A seamlessly normal sort of day that really just lifts my spirits.... I know there are many perks about living in the city- but really I totally appreciate being a country girl in these moments. It's doubtful you would get to take a nap by your husband next to a beautiful pond on the waning days of fall and have these beautiful jeweled creatures land on you. Someone remind me of this in a few months when I'm complaining about the snow.

Cheers for now. -Sarah

It's been awhile

It's been quite sometime since the last time I blogged. Lots of things have happened. For one we bought a house in May, and than two weeks ago Ellery and I got married!
It was a blast, and I am so incredibly happy with every single second of it. I am so lucky to have such amazing friends and family and a beautiful area to live in that made the day amazing.

However two weeks later and I'm sort of still feeling a bit of the post-nuptial blues. Not in any way related to my love for Ellery or regretting being married. Just general blues, let down that comes from having a HUGE event in your life be over, and resuming normal life. I think you expect things to be gigantically different once your married- like all of a sudden things are suppose to be exciting and adventurous and all that fairy tale stuff. Truth is after the honeymoon, life resumes. You walk the dog, you go to work, come home cook dinner, (and in our case continually work on the new house), and than you go to bed. Nothing is that different. Life goes on. Also friends/family seem to want to avoid you after the big event is over....like they fear they are interrupting a very important part of your life. Truthfully I have been sort of a hermit- we haven't seen many people since the wedding. However I would just love it if someone wanted to do something and chat. I could use a distraction.
I've been baking a lot of course to pass the blues. Blackberry Apple Pie, Plum Torte, Upside down cakes, Homemade Mayonnaise, Pesto, Chocolate Chip Pancakes. My husband thinks I'm trying to fatten him up. Really I just love to bake.
I've started a Pie Business- Sarahndipity Pies- it's off to a slow start but I'm hoping someday it will take off, and I can just work for myself instead of working for others. I dream up Pies and Cakes during mundane activities--- i think of different flavor combinations before bed and when i get up in the morning. It's sort of an issue. haha.

Despite my post-nuptial blues I do have this deep appreciation for my husband (and I love saying my husband). Ellery is the single person in this world who gets me. He makes me laugh when I'm feeling like crap, even if I really don't want to laugh. He gets me excited for things ahead in life. He reminds me that our wedding was just one day- and the best is yet to come. I adore my husband. And I am so lucky to have met my soul-mate and be married to him. So eventually I will get over these blues (maybe if this awful rain would end!!), and we will have a hundred events to look forward to over the course of our lives. Till the next one, I think I will go bake a Pie.