hamncheezr:

I had to work at church for 15minutes tonight as a door greeter.
I put on my new shorts, a cute tank top, and my stilettos. I looked amazing, just sayin’.

Anyways right before I leave the house Tony calls me and asks me to pick up some Jack Daniels while I’m out.

Whenever we have colds we do a couple shots, wrap up in blankets and sweat it out. This absolutely, totally works everytime. You sleep like a baby and even if it doesn’t kill your cold the sleep helps and you feel better. This isn’t to say we don’t do some shots now and then for recreation because I’ll admit, I love Jack Daniels. I love beer but Jack is my drink of choice. I need no chaser.

Where was I? Tony’s coming down with a cold like something from quitting smoking. Weird huh? Or maybe he’s just coming down with a cold and it just coincides with the week that he went from smoking almost a pack a day to smoking about 4 cigarettes a day. I dunno.

So there aren’t any drive thru liquor stores because Tennessee sucks in that aspect. My choice was to either take my kids in a liquor store, which I”m just not comfortable with. Plus, HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH GLASS IS IN LIQUOR STORES? That’s out. I said to Diantha, why don’t you ride with me out there and wait in the car with the kids while I duck in and buy booze… OR … I could check them into Sunday school and leave them at church and go buy booze.

Diantha looked at me with a floored expression. She’s like, that second option is wrong on SO many levels that it’s actually brilliant.

If the 16 yr old thinks your booze buying plan is brilliant, you go with a different plan.

So she missed the first 30mins of church to drive with me to buy Jack because I figured it was the lesser of the two evils.

And now I have Jack! Come on 11 o’clock!

My. Kids.

I got this recipe out of the book Food to Die For - Secrets from Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen by forensic novelist Patricia Cornwell

Ingredients:

• Crust for a 9” pie (store bought or my recipe follows)
• 3 extra-large or 4 medium eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup dark corn syrup
• 5 Tablespoons melted butter
• 1/4 cup (one nip bottle) Jack Daniels
• 2/3 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate or mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/4 cups pecan halves or pieces
• Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream for serving

 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Gently place the pie crust pastry into the pie pan.

In a large bowl, whisk eggs briskly, then add the other ingredients, whisking thoroughly as each is added, until well blended.

Sprinkle 1/2 the chocolate evenly in bottom of pie crust.  Gently pour the pie filling over the chips.  Sprinkle pecans onto surface of pie filling, then top with the rest of the chocolate.

Trim the pie crust 1” above the filling.  Moisten the edge with a finger dipped in water and fold it half in on itself.  Crimp the edges with fingers or a spoon.

Bake the pie for 50-55 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave the pie in the closed oven for an additional 15 minutes to crisp the topping.  Transfer the pie to a cooling rack.  Let the pie cool a couple hours before serving.

Pie crust dough

• 1/3 cup shortening, lard (makes the ‘shortest’ crust) or butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour (I use unbleached)
• 1 teaspoon salt

Cut the shortening into the flour & salt with a pastry blender or two table knives held together until the mixture resembles coarse meal.  Add 1/4 cup ice water and stir with a fork until the dough *just* holds together.  Roll out on a lightly floured counter top.  Barely dust the top with flour.  Fold gently in 1/2 and 1/2 again.  Place the center of the wedge in the pie baking pan and unfold.