A Sunday Short

Apple pie anyone?

I was reminded of this recipe the other day and thought it worth sharing—note, you can make it vegan (and why wouldn’t you?) by simply substituting the real butter for the vegan kind (my fav for baking is Organic Earth Balance). And by the way, I favor cosmic crisp apples—you’ll see why next.

Note: read the ingredient list very carefully.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

~ Carl Sagan

All right, all right…. Actually, this has nothing to do with apple pie, but everything to do with the Universal truth that every single thing in our Universe, from its (the Universe’s) beginning up to this very moment, is interconnected and interdependent. Take anything away from any moment that has occurred up to now, over the entirety of Universal history, and this moment would be different, fundamentally, and by definition. In fact, we mightn’t not even be here. So you’d have to ask “but who’d eat the apple pie?”

To make from scratch my internet-hacked cinnamon rolls for our family Bunny Egg Brunch this morning, I would need to invent the Universe. Or for Kristin to bake her breakfast sausage/hash brown casserole (veganized!) from scratch, she, too, would need to invent the Universe. Or for Grandma Patty to make her famous fruit salad from scratch, even she, too, needs to start by inventing the Universe.

“From scratch”

An American idiom (ie a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words—like “it’s raining cats and dogs” or “to bake an apple pie from scratch”) that means…

“…from the beginning.”

See, Carl had it right!

By the way, if you want that pie a la mode, you can use the same Universe you invented for the pie itself.

You’re welcome for that shortcut. It’ll save you a bit of time.

Photo by Mike Swigunski on Unsplash

A guilty admission:

For today’s Bunny Egg family brunch, I didn’t have time to start from the beginning, so I used store bought ingredients for the cinnamon rolls. They already came with the Universe as their main ingredient. Each one.

Trust me, I read the labels.

I watched Kristin in the kitchen too, she cheated as well—kinda. Not sure about G-ma Patty—we’ll ask her when she gets here.

🍎🍮🍏🥧

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Happy Sunday y’all. If you “celebrate” Easter, or Ramadan, or Transgender Day of Visibility, those too.

~ k

PS: I’ve found a great way to live more fully into a life of gratefulness is to call to mind, before I eat or consume anything, the miracle that that thing truly is—for it to be there, on my plate or in my cup, the entire Universe conspired to arrive in that present moment. Once consumed, said Universe becomes a part of me. And I more a part of it. It can be no other way.

Yeah, you tell me we’re all not walking miracles (even those of us at this very moment being bombed in Gaza, and Ukraine, and Haiti, and…, and…, and….)

Sigh.

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BTW: I miss Carl Sagan. I loved Carl Sagan—much more than apple pie.

But that internet-hacked cinnamon roll recipe—DAMN! To. Die. For.

Photo by LAUREN GRAY on Unsplash. Note: mine look even better than these!

And do invent the Universe first. It makes them calorie, cholesterol, sugar, and fat-free. Trust me, I read labels.

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