today is kris’ birthday! since she’s not really a cake person, i thought it would be nice to get her one of her favorites desserts, an apple pie. but she makes a pie, so it’s a little tricky because i can’t just get any ol’ apple pie from the grocery store. it has to be a great apple pie. i assumed that there must be someplace like that in the area and i got a tip to check out the meating place, which – conveniently enough – is only three blocks away from our house ( well, actually, almost everything is three blocks away 🙂 ). sure enough, they make pies and although they didn’t have apple on the menu today they said they’d be happy to make kris a special birthday pie. it had just come out of the oven when i picked it up after work and as i left the owner asked me to please remember to bring back the glass plate!

wouldn’t you know it – it’s one of the best pies we’ve ever had.

and you can’t have a pie made from fresh organic apples without a wallop of sibby’s organic vanilla ice cream which is made right here in vernon county; you can get it at certain whole foods “in the city”, but otherwise it has a pretty limited distribution right now. but that’ll change soon, because it’s knock-out good.