Apple Pie

I've learned my lesson. Men can't read my mind. Especially when it comes to what I'm doing to prepare for having guests. It started with an apple pie. It was Saturday and I knew that on Sunday we would have a table full of people for a meal. Since I didn't want to spend all of Sunday cooking, I decided to make dessert, apple pie, on Saturday. I knew that the smell of cooking apples and the baking pie would be too much for my husband. He would want a piece on Saturday night.

LIBERTY - Results in the 2006 Apple Culinary Contest at the annual Casey County Apple Festival last weekend are: Baking Linda Buchanan was the overall winner in the baking division with an Apple Dapple Cake; and Rosa Bertram's entry of apple jelly was the overall winner in the canning and preservation division. Others listed first, second and third place, respectively, if applicable, are: Cake Class: Fresh Apple Cake, Linda Buchanan, Gina Goode and Chris Long.

LIBERTY — The 36th annual Casey County Apple Festival moved from its pageant phase to a more public production Wednesday with the serving of the giant chocolate chip cookie, gospel concerts and other activities in downtown Liberty. About 300 people pressed against corral panels to await a hunk of the big cookie, served up by employees of the IGA grocery store. A crowd gathered across the street at the Village Green, too, to watch performances by local church groups. The midway also opened Wednesday evening.

What started as a routine night for Ms. B's Restaurant, 30 N. Main St., turned into the dream of a lifetime for the owner. The staff of the recently opened restaurant had prepared dinner for Rhonda Vincent, a country music star, who was performing Friday evening at the Leeds Center for the Arts and her staff of five. "We had put the big pot into the little one," Beverly A. Perkins Chism, restaurant owner, said. "The good china, crystal and silver. " "When the crew came in, I sat down to chat with Ms. Vincent, and she told me some of upcoming plans, including the 17th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards Show Thursday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

There's nothing like a freshly-baked apple pie. It seems every time I come across a freshly-baked apple pie - you know the ones, crust just so, the filling bubbling and a little gooey - I have to stop, smell and then, of course, devour. As I sit here thinking about it, I've never actually baked an apple pie from scratch. Usually it's out of the box and into the oven, and an hour or so later - burp (my, my, where are my manners?). So often - unless you've got the time to sit down and prepare a pie from scratch - in today's world, the pie comes from a box. Convenient and easy, that's the key. In the business world, it seems everyone wants a piece of the pie, and more often than not, they want and get a piece of the pie that comes from a box. While a boxed pie is good, one made from scratch is much better and much more rewarding.

Twenty lunch orders completed. No food on the floor and 25 minutes to spare. The students in Sarah-Ann Webb's class at Boyle County High School breath a sigh of relief until time to prepare the last seven lunches for the third month of BoCoToGo. They had carefully followed Webb's advice during the preparation. "Make sure everybody gets a fork and napkin today," she says. "How do we tell butter from sour cream?" she asks. "Do not touch the baked potatoes," she warns of the piping hot part of the entree.

Tastebuds of Wilmore looks just like an old-fashioned soda fountain. With its long, swivel stool-lined counter and employees clad in white aprons and paper hats, the restaurant evokes an image of what Wilmore's Main Street might have looked like decades ago. But since they took over July 1, new owners Gary and Beth Hoenicke have infused the menu with up-to-date fare and brought back all-time favorites like mom's apple pie. "Gary made...

A program that featured the construction of a Danville labyrinth is one of six KET programs that have been nominated for regional Emmy Awards from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. "Labyrinths of Kentucky" was a segment in a Kentucky Life production. This feature takes a tour of modern examples of the ancient meditation tool around the state. Robert Ferr and crew are shown in McDowell Park, next to The Presbyterian Church, laying out and constructing an example based on the Chartres pattern.

As seasonal as the fall leaves turning are the election polls that accompany them. We know what the colorful array of foliage means: cooler weather, enjoyable drives through the countryside and the onset of the holidays. But interpreting the polls doesn’t offer so many automatics. For example, a recent USA Today story about the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll shows six in 10 respondents find the American government too powerful. But the story’s tone read more like a requiem than a celebration.

From the Farm: Barrie has had a mini-vacation - sort of. I have had laryngitis all week. It sure is frustrating not being able to communicate by speaking. He couldn't hear me or read lips so I had to resort to note writing. Seed catalogs are looking pretty worn. The photos make everything look so good, especially in these dreary months of winter. We leaf through those like kids with a Sears catalog at Christmas. We make list upon revised list until we finalize it to place orders for the season.

As seasonal as the fall leaves turning are the election polls that accompany them. We know what the colorful array of foliage means: cooler weather, enjoyable drives through the countryside and the onset of the holidays. But interpreting the polls doesn’t offer so many automatics. For example, a recent USA Today story about the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll shows six in 10 respondents find the American government too powerful. But the story’s tone read more like a requiem than a celebration.

LIBERTY — The 36th annual Casey County Apple Festival moved from its pageant phase to a more public production Wednesday with the serving of the giant chocolate chip cookie, gospel concerts and other activities in downtown Liberty. About 300 people pressed against corral panels to await a hunk of the big cookie, served up by employees of the IGA grocery store. A crowd gathered across the street at the Village Green, too, to watch performances by local church groups. The midway also opened Wednesday evening.

The Heart of Danville Farmers Market is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, or until sold out, on Main Street across from the post office. It is open 8 a.m.-4p.m. Saturday, or until sold out, at the U.S. Bank Parking Lot at Fourth and Main streets. This week at the market: blackberries banana peppers green peppers corn cabbage cherry tomatoes cucumbers eggplant green beans green tomatoes heirloom tomatoes melons new potatoes red potatoes tomatoes onions peaches watermelon yellow squash zucchini Alvin Lee said he’s got about anything that’s in season.

Twenty lunch orders completed. No food on the floor and 25 minutes to spare. The students in Sarah-Ann Webb's class at Boyle County High School breath a sigh of relief until time to prepare the last seven lunches for the third month of BoCoToGo. They had carefully followed Webb's advice during the preparation. "Make sure everybody gets a fork and napkin today," she says. "How do we tell butter from sour cream?" she asks. "Do not touch the baked potatoes," she warns of the piping hot part of the entree.

What started as a routine night for Ms. B's Restaurant, 30 N. Main St., turned into the dream of a lifetime for the owner. The staff of the recently opened restaurant had prepared dinner for Rhonda Vincent, a country music star, who was performing Friday evening at the Leeds Center for the Arts and her staff of five. "We had put the big pot into the little one," Beverly A. Perkins Chism, restaurant owner, said. "The good china, crystal and silver. " "When the crew came in, I sat down to chat with Ms. Vincent, and she told me some of upcoming plans, including the 17th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards Show Thursday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

LIBERTY - Results in the 2006 Apple Culinary Contest at the annual Casey County Apple Festival last weekend are: Baking Linda Buchanan was the overall winner in the baking division with an Apple Dapple Cake; and Rosa Bertram's entry of apple jelly was the overall winner in the canning and preservation division. Others listed first, second and third place, respectively, if applicable, are: Cake Class: Fresh Apple Cake, Linda Buchanan, Gina Goode and Chris Long.

Tastebuds of Wilmore looks just like an old-fashioned soda fountain. With its long, swivel stool-lined counter and employees clad in white aprons and paper hats, the restaurant evokes an image of what Wilmore's Main Street might have looked like decades ago. But since they took over July 1, new owners Gary and Beth Hoenicke have infused the menu with up-to-date fare and brought back all-time favorites like mom's apple pie. "Gary made...

There's nothing like a freshly-baked apple pie. It seems every time I come across a freshly-baked apple pie - you know the ones, crust just so, the filling bubbling and a little gooey - I have to stop, smell and then, of course, devour. As I sit here thinking about it, I've never actually baked an apple pie from scratch. Usually it's out of the box and into the oven, and an hour or so later - burp (my, my, where are my manners?). So often - unless you've got the time to sit down and prepare a pie from scratch - in today's world, the pie comes from a box. Convenient and easy, that's the key. In the business world, it seems everyone wants a piece of the pie, and more often than not, they want and get a piece of the pie that comes from a box. While a boxed pie is good, one made from scratch is much better and much more rewarding.