My Lost Recipes

My wonderful aunt is has such a gift for baking has given me a few really great recipes over the past few years.  Some recipes that I uses ALL the time!  I put those recipes in a very special zip lock bag before we moved to London.  I made sure I packed them in a very safe place since I would be seriously sad if I ever lost them.  Well, guess what?????  They are lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now, seriously!  If you know me, you will understand what this means!  My perfectly yummy pie crust recipe?  Gone!  My delicious apple pie recipe that David LOVES so much?  GONE!  The only banana bread recipe that I actually like?  GONE!  My favourite cranberry muffin recipe?  GONE!!!!!  And my most favourite most delicious CHOCOLATE SILK PIE RECIPE?????  Yep, you guessed it... GONE!!!  No where to be found!  I have searched high and low!  Gone through every piece of luggage we brought over!  Even went through every box that was on the crate, just in case I remembered incorrectly and possibly put it in one of those boxes.  Torn every board game apart, searched through every book!  NO recipes to be found.  What on earth am I to do????

Here's the problem... My wonderful Aunt is serving the Lord in Peru with her family on a short-term mission trip.  I can't exactly get the recipes from her until she gets back which is sometime at the end of the week.  I am CRAVING pie.  ESPECIALLY the chocolate silk pie.  Ok, wait, maybe I am also craving the baking part of it!  But, by waiting another week, I will have time to let my mouth water even more for it!  And then, when I actually can get ahold of the recipes, they will taste SO YUMMY!  It obviously is worth the wait!

The good news is, I learned something about the flour here.  IT'S NOT THE SAME! So, basically, they don't have something called all-purpuse flour.  Instead, there is plain flour or strong white flour.  I have made a few batches of cookies with none of them turning out as they should.  Wanna know why?  It's because I have been using plain flour this whole time, when I really should have been using strong white flour!  Had I would've had my recipes, the pie crust would have turned out absolutely WRONG!  So, by waiting, I found out the info I needed to know and found the correct flour today while I was at Whole Foods.  The only other thing I really need to get is a rolling.  Which, I couldn't get anyway this week.  So, someday I will have everything I need for a pie, including the recipe.  I can't wait for that day, seriously! I can't!  Until then...

Seriously???  Seriously!

P.S.  I find it funny this blog entry immediately follows the whole yummy dessert blog... go figure:)