
although baking/cooking is my passion, i make my living by working in corporate america. if i tried to explain to you what the company i work for does, or even what my job is, it would still be unclear after you asked any question you could think of… here is the short answer: companies, schools, governments, etc buy all sorts of computer stuff from us, i manage a team of folks that specialize on a particular product manufacturer and help the sales reps. just like i do something outside of my day job, one of the gentlemen on our help desk does something spectacular in addition to his job at our company: HE PROTECTS OUR FREEDOM AND PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR US! He came back from Iraq a few weeks ago, and will be returning to work this Monday, so a bunch of us ladies are baking as part of the welcome back/thank you efforts.
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so, today i went to what just may be the last of the summer bbqs, and decided that this evening’s selection should be a farewell to summer. when i think of personal pies i think of pizza hut’s personal pan pizzas, but this time the personal pies are an homage to a delicious snapple flavor– raspberry peach! i was going to make blueberry pies, then peach blueberry, but then i remembered the delightful flavor combination of this fine beverage.
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part of being known as the baker is having things sprung on you last minute and having to come up with a way to make it happen. to be fair- 1. i truly enjoy it and 2. in this case i should have known it was lauren from my work team’s birthday, but the day planner i had was a school year style one and it ended last week. i have baked for the birthdays of everyone else i manage, so i didnt want to be a bad boss and not make something for one of my all-stars (this girl blows her numbers out of the water time and time again).
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