Homemade Strawberry Pie

Strawberry Pie.....so good it's criminal!  I use Jello for the easy glaze! 

Fresh Strawberry Pie with Jello Glaze...don't ya want a bite? Yes, you do! 

I love fresh strawberries and I had a ton I got from the  market for $2.00 a package! What a deal!!  So I made a strawberry pie. This recipe is so easy and it was deeeeeeelish.  You make the glaze with jello! It is SOOOOOO easy peasy.  

     
I'm gonna do another one in peach as soon as they are in season.

Peaches from my tree last year were so yummy. It is just now filled with pink flowery blossoms!

Well, not as pretty as this little Peach at her Spring dance recital! 

                                   Here is Miss Megan being her cute, little, joyful self after the recital. So cute!

I like to make my pie crust with real butter. It just tastes better to me, like a yummy crescent cookie. So try your crust with butter to see if you like it too.

PIE CRUST INGREDIENTS.....
 I used 1 cube butter,
 cut in 1 1/3 cup of flour.
 Add 1/2 teaspoon salt
 3 Tablespoons ice water
(I add ice cubes to the water before taking out the Tablespoons. 

The glaze is easy..just jello mixed with sugar water and cornstarch...

Then I like to whisk it up mold it into a ball and roll it out on a large zip lock baggie. It just makes life easier and I was out of waxed paper. :D  I rolled it out so it was about 1/2 inch bigger all around than the pie tin layed over it.  Then I cut around it. 

I rolled it out onto the gallon size baggie...you could use waxed paper too. 

cuttin' around the upside down tin...1/2 inch bigger for the cute edging...

It's so easy to flip the pie crust into the pan and peel off the baggie...then toss it!

Making the beautiful edging is my fav part. Just pinch between your left thumb and your right thumb and forefinger to make the pointy peaks around your pie crust edge.  Or opposite if you are a lefty.

Don't forget to poke forkholes in the butter pie crust...then bake at 475 for 8-10 minutes.

While the crust was baking I did the glaze and cut off the tops of the strawberries and washed and dried them. The glaze is super easy.

Strawberry Glaze Ingredients and Directions
1 cup of water
Mix with 3/4 cup sugar and
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 small 3 oz. box Strawberry Jello
Mix first 3 ingredients and put it in a saucepan on the stove till it is smooth and when it is bubbling....boil  for about 2 minutes. Then take it off the heat. Whisk in the jello for a minute till it is dissolved and then put it in the fridge for 15 minutes to cool.

Boil the syrup for about 2 minutes....It's a little bit thick...

Take it off the stove and toss in the small box of jello....

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Here's my glaze before I refrigerated it for 15 minutes....

Then arrange the yummy strawberries with the pointy side up in the cooled pie shell. By the time I had the green tops cut off and them washed and dried, the glaze was cool!  Pour the glaze over the top,  coating each of the top strawberries. Then pop it into the fridge for a 1/2 hour until set.

 It was delicious because the top of the crust was still crunchy cookie tasting. I hate pie crust that is all soggy Ug! So we ate that baby up so fast!!!  It was gone by morning. Yum is all I can say.  But I wish I had made 2 of em.  

Who says you can't have a piece of Fresh Strawberry Pie for breakfast...NOT ME!

I'll be dreaming of this Strawberry Pie  for awhile......mmmmm good!

Ariel Birthday Party for Marisa

My oldest grandchild turned 6 last week. It is hard to believe. I can't imagine my life without her in it. She is the apple of my eye.

She had an Ariel party...with a bubble machine and Nemo hot potato....

And yummy chocolate cupcakes that turned everybody's tongue bright blue! 

Blowing out the "6" candle....

Meg wanted a flounder cupcake.....

Musical chairs was fun....everybody got a prize when they got out! 

3 generations of brown eyed girls here......

 

3 cousins here, Meg, Josie and Marisa....

I loved these aqua frilly skirts they wore....so cute! 

Fascinated by trying to pop those bubbles......



Grandpa and I took turns playing with Josie and baby Dylan, grandbabies 3 and 5.

Super cute little guy......didn't make a peep.....zzzzzz

 And these were the most darling bunch of little girls at the party.....especially birthday girl!

6 years old! Woo Hoo! 

I got her a doll that looked kind of like her in her glasses.....

Then the girls all beaded a fancy bracelet....

And then we ate cupcakes and sodas and pizza! 

Then she opened all her loot......

I had to take some pictures of her cute room....Tiffany made such cute wall art for the girls.....

Super cute flowers and frames.....

And a darling curtain....

Yummy Ariel and Flounder cupcakes with fishy sprinkles.....

Gotta love a goodie bag too! 

I still can't believe she is 6! 

I love my little princesses.....what a fun-filled day! 

My Class Got on TV! RAD KIDS Graduation!

Second Graders Learn Skills to Keep Them Safe | KUTV.com


 We were featured on Channel News TV on Friday for our RAD KIDS Graduation! It is a self defense program backed by the Elizabeth Smart Foundation.

It  teaches kids what to do in dangerous or stranger-danger situations. They learn how to fight off an attacker, how to yell "Get Back, You're not my mom!" and pepper the aggressor in the eyes with their fingers and do shin kicks.

 We practice for 8 hours during the week with trained RAD KIDS teachers. Then they practice with the "RED MAN", who acts out the part of the aggressive stranger. Go Brody, kick him!

Kick him, Get away! Scream "No, No, you're NOT my dad!"

 They learn the tricks that strangers use to lure kids into their cars; "I've lost my dog, will you help me look for him?" Of course kids naturally want to help. Hopefully they will think twice if it ever happens with this valuable training.

 Here were our cute teachers, Mrs. Sheffner and Miss Maggie.

They were with us every step of the way, helping us, coaching us, yelling what to do!

Our principal came to our graduation, explaining the program to parents.

They learn to scream if anybody were to grab them and strategies to get away if they are grabbed by a stranger. They also learn fire and gun safety rules, the importance of wearing seat belts and a bike helmet, and how it is OK to tell if somebody is hurting you. Nobody has the right to hurt you. They start out each day reciting that.

Practicing all our moves together, "high hammer!", "block!" 

Get him Grace! Pepper his eyes!

Yay! Cambria got away, go girl! Everyone cheers for you. It is VERY EMPOWERING!

Even the quiet, shy kids learn to yell and become fierce! I like that. Everybody cheers for their classmates!

Go! Get away! You can do it! Parents all watch from the chairs.

One of my parents is a producer for Channel 2 News. She organized the TV station to come record and do a story on us. See how cool it was by linking below!  It was a very exciting day for all! Second Graders Learn Skills to Keep Them Safe | KUTV.com