Blackberry Pie Making with Va

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

When you learn how to make pies from the master.

My mom bakes every day- every day, she makes cookies, pie, cream puffs, or something in that sweet order and from scratch.

And even though she can make those sweet things with her eyes closed and turned around backward

she still followed the recipe to the “t.”

My mom doesn’t take shortcuts or deviate from the recipe; her 86-year-old hands move gracefully.

 

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

 

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

My mother made a blackberry pie from blackberries that she picked last summer.

My mom freezes her measured blackberries in four-cup bags ready to use.

Gabriel used the leftover pie dough to make his little pie-

not quite the same, but we didn’t tell him that.

 

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

Blackberry Pie Making with Va

 



Comments

18 responses to “Blackberry Pie Making with Va”

  1. à la Proust… the smell and taste of love he will never forget.

  2. This is precious.

  3. RebeccaNYC

    I love your mom. What a treasure she is.

  4. RebeccaNYC

    Does Gabriel call both of you “Va”? When my nieces and nephews were young, my dad was “Pop-Pop” When they had children of their own, and their dad (my brother in-law) was “Pop-Pop”, their children spontaneously started calling their great-grandfather “Pop-Pop-Pop”. I always loved that!

  5. Pat-A-Cake Pat-A-Cake
    The Countdown Kids, The Countdown Singers
    Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker’s man
    Bake me a cake as fast as you can
    Pat it and prick it and mark it with “B”
    Put it in the oven for baby and me
    For baby and me
    For baby and me
    And there will be plenty for baby and me
    Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker’s man
    Bake me a cake as fast as you can
    Pat it and prick it and mark it with “B”
    Put it in the oven for baby and me
    For baby and me
    For baby and me
    And there will be plenty for baby and me
    How precious the times shared and the photographs of love

  6. Precious.

  7. Ohhhhhh, those darling little dimpled fingers and hands, busily working with such focus and concentration. What joy! What forever memories are being made with your beautiful Mom!!!

  8. Get some photos with the 4 generations!

  9. Fat Rabbit

    Baking with great grandmother – delicious memories in the making.❤️

  10. He’s into it! Sweet memories in the making…literally and otherwise! 💕

  11. Texasfrancophile

    Priceless priceless priceless
    memories for both forever😍

  12. Diane Belforte Lewis

    omgosh that is unbelievably sweet.

  13. Cathleen

    Yummy – precious – sweet!

  14. Barbara Blizzard

    Frank started teaching our granddaughter Zoë to measure by weight when she was little – I have a wonderful photo of her standing on a ladder wearing one of my aprons with a big smile – she looked at me and said “I cooking, Grandma”. That has been our special phrase since then. She know bakes beautiful galettes for family gatherings.

  15. Linda Loose

    So, so wonderful to have these moments. I know you cherish them. Gabriel looks totally absorbed in his work.

  16. Lovely pictures and great memories!

  17. Teddee Grace

    I’m so glad they are having this time together. He will remember.

  18. I love, love that Gabriel is getting this experience with Va.
    I have made pie with my grandson once, but need to do it more often. The experience is a treasure. It is amazing your mother bakes every day. I eat too much when I bake, so try to do it only once a week.

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