# 287: A Quiet Day after Christmas
A quiet day and end of the year updates from Pie Cottage.
Thanks to all for your good wishes! I hope you are enjoying this quiet time as much as I am. After a long night, St Nick is back home and enjoying the day after with friends.
Today, there’s a little Bosco Report plus info about our December 29th Paid Subscriber Session. Early next month I’ll be announcing the 2025 dates for In-Person Art of the Pie Day Camps at Pie Cottage and there’s still time to register for the new In the Kitchen with Kate series which begins on January 5th, too.
The Bosco Report
Bosco and I are doing really well! During our time with family, visits to friends’ and our walks it’s obvious that he has had very good training. He’s truly quite the gentleman.
Poodle-brain does set in every once in a while like the other day when playing fetch at the home of a dear friend who has two golden retrievers. Mr B loves to romp with them and when he found the chuck it stick and ball he was overjoyed! That went well for a while until he decided he would just keep the ball, not give it back and play keep-away instead. Sooooo, we’re working on making sure that no matter where we are he understands that “Bosco, Come!” means get over here now and that Momz meanz what she sez! With kindness, consistency and treats we’ll get there. I’m looking in to starting agility training with him, too. Next up today is a walk!
December’s Paid Subscriber Video Session
December 29 2PM Pacific/5PM Eastern
Join me and Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin the author of Pies are Awesome and learn how she makes one of her amazing pie tops!
This special one-hour session will be held on Zoom on Sunday December 29 2PM Pacific/5PM Eastern and is a part of a paid subscription.
An hour before the session I will send all paid subscribers the Zoom link.
ALL paid subscribers will receive a video replay recording after the session.
Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin is a pie artist and media producer, credited with the creation of the "Piescraper" as well as popularizing the modern Pie Art Movement. She is the author of Pies Are Awesome: The Definitive Pie Art Book with foreword by Duff Goldman, and has appeared as a pie judge on the Food Network and The TODAY Show. Known as "ThePieous" on social media, Clark-Bojin's pie art has been featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not!, People, CNN, Business Insider, Entertainment Tonight, Food & Wine Magazine, as well as front-paging on Reddit.
DATES FOR 2025 IN-PERSON ART OF THE PIE DAY CAMPS AT PIE COTTAGE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY!
This is the original hands-on Art of the Pie Day Camp Workshop taught by me in Port Angeles, WA.
What's included in an Art of the Pie Day Camp
The lifetime skill of how to make and roll the Art of the Pie® dough by hand.
Recipes and all ingredients.
Classes limited to 4 pie campers so there will be lots of personalized instruction while making your own seasonal fruit pie and flaky pastry.
How to make a food processor crust at home.
How to choose great tasting seasonal fruit.
How to make a filling for just about ANY fruit pie.
Tips and tricks to bake up a picture perfect pie to share
How to create your own recipes.
You will finish class with your own just baked pie hot out of the oven or ready to bake at home.
Plus
A 9" Emile Henry pie dish ($50 value)
A celebratory prosecco toast or juice and delicious piece…or two…of a freshly baked pie made by Kate!
Dates will be announced in January!
I hope you continue to find value in our newsletter. In addition to words, photos, baking and cooking tips and tricks, and recipes, this year I added Saturday ‘Toon Days and once a month paid subscribers video sessions. As all of this is ad-free, your paid subscriptions are what makes it possible for me to continue to create for you. So, if you can subscribe, please do.
I’m really looking forward to our paid subscriber session with Jessica this coming Sunday December 29th (paid subscribers will receive the link that day) and hope to see you there!
And if there’s someone you might need to give a gift to, it’s not too late for a gift subscription!
What I’m Listening To
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve sung by Ella Fitzgerald
I’d love to know if you have any special plans or traditions even it it is a quiet night at home. Here are a few of mine.
Something that you can do for me is to heart ❤️ this post. It not only lets me know that you are stopping by but this really helps my ratings on Substack, too. Thank you!
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Hello Kate, I just wanted to report that a cookie sheet of salt does preventing the oven (and house) from getting smokey. This issue was discussed in your pre-Thanksgiving pie zoom call. I didn't have to fill the whole sheet, just enough to catch grease drips from pie plate. I put the salt in a container to reuse next time.
Happy Boxing Day! Thank you for the Bosco Update.