I love a nice fresh homemade pie! I also love finger foods, which brings me to sharing some mini pies recipes. Finger food, meet your favorite slice of pie. Not only are mini pies an awesome way to eat pie on the go, but they're also super cute. Mini Pies: Quick and Easy Homemade Recipes There's so much to be done on a homestead, even the small ones, so on my baking days, I like to make a couple of batches of miniature pies and store some for later. You can freeze the pies after they've been cooked, or you can prep them all the way to the point of baking and freeze them until you're ready to bake them. Either way, mixed with the right ingredients – and a little love – they're big winners around the house or at this summer’s BBQ. Next, not only will I go over the basics of the recipe for mini pies, but I will also include my personal Mixed Fruit Pie Filling Recipe and one of my favorite Pecan Pie filling recipes as well. Recipe Yields 12 Pies. Prep Time 20 – 30 Minutes. Total Time about 1 1/2 Hours The Basics 2 packs of 2 count ready-made pie crust – I make my own crust, but it's optional 4 cups of desired pie filling or 2 21-ounce cans 1 large whisked egg Greased muffin pan 4-inch cookie cutter / lid / cup Pastry brush 1. Preheat your oven for 350 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. Roll out the crusts you will be using for your bottoms. Using your cookie cutter, cut your pie bottoms into 4-inch circles. This size works well for muffin pans, but if you are using a smaller or larger pan just adjust the size of your circle. 3. Press the bottoms into the greased muffin pan. Be sure to leave enough crust over the lip of the rim for the tops. 4. Now it's time to work on your tops. You can do a lattice top or a simple circle. For the circle tops, just use the same cookie cutter to cut out the tops. If you're going for the lattice, cut about 6 thin strips and lace them together. When you choose the round top, be sure to cut a couple of air slits into it, so that it can release some steam without busting the seams. 5. Use your pastry brush and brush the tops of your pies with the whisked egg. Bake the mini pies in the oven for 30-40 minutes, or until the crust is a light golden color and the filling is bubbling. 6. Allow the pies to cool for 20-25 minutes. Using a butter knife, gently loosen the pies from the pans and remove! The Dough If you'd rather not buy pre-made pie crust, you can easily whip up some homemade dough for your pies. | 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon of sugar 3/4 teaspoon of salt 1 cup of butter 6 tablespoons of ice water 1. Mix the flour, sugar, and salt together. Add the butter, and mix it until your mixture looks like coarse meal. 2. Blend in the ice water one tablespoon at a time. When the mixture starts to clump, it's ready to be rolled into a ball. Once you have the dough rolled into a ball, divide it in half and flatten them into pie discs. One disc is for the tops, and the other for the bottoms. 3. Wrap the pie discs in plastic and allow them to chill for about an hour or two before using them. The Filling This recipe can be used to take just about any fruit and turn it into pie filling. 4 cups of desired fruit 1/4 teaspoon of cornstarch 1 cup of sugar Spices (like nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, etc.) – to taste 1. Cut your fruit to the desired size and cook on a low-medium heat, bringing it to a low simmer. This allows the fruit juices to cook out, allowing it to add flavor. This only takes about 10 minutes, but you have to constantly stir the mix while it cooks. 2. Remove the pan from the heat and let stand. In a small mixing bowl, whisk in the sugar, cornstarch, and spices until it's blended and smooth. 3. Add your dry mix to the fruit blend and mix together really well. The sugar granules should be completely dissolved. 4. Put the pan back on a low simmer until the pie filling thickens, allow it to cool, and make your pie or can it for later. Fruit Medley Pie Filling Once, I really wanted to make some pie, but to my dismay, I discovered that I only had a little bit of a bunch of different fruits. So I did the only thing I knew how to do, and I combined a little bit of everything to make one amazing mixed fruit pie. My fruit combination consisted of: 2 cups of peeled peaches 1/2  cup of apples 1/2  cup of pears 1/2 cup of cherries 1/2 cup of bananas Cook the filling down just as I explained in the basic filling recipe. I add cinnamon, nutmeg, and a little allspice to my mixture. Precious Pecan Pie Filling 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar (firmly packed) 1/2 cup of dark maple syrup 1/4 cup of raw honey 1/3 cup of cornstarch – give or take 3 tablespoons of butter 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean extract 4 large egg yolks 1 1/2 cups of half & half 1/8 teaspoon of sea salt 1. Using a heavy saucepan, whisk the brown sugar, honey, syrup, cornstarch, egg, and half & half together. Bring the mixture to a low boil over medium heat, whisking it the whole time it cooks to avoid burning. Boil for about a minute and remove from heat. 2. Now, whisk in the vanilla bean extract and butter. Lay some wax paper right onto the mixture. Covering the filling like this prevents a film from forming on top and makes it easier to handle when it's time to work with it. 3. Chill for 3 – 4 hours before filling your pie crust with it. Looking for some meaty and beefy mini pies? Here's a video to help you out! I hope you've enjoyed these mini pie recipes. Remember your pantry is the limit on this one – whatever your favorite pie may be, it can be made into a mini, trust me. Happy baking! Have you tried baking mini pies? What's your favorite filling? Please leave your baking tips in the comment section below! Fond of baking bread? 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Philippe Reines has a well-earned reputation as one of the most odious operatives in politics. No wonder Hillary Clinton made him a close adviser! Reines is the guy who taunted Donald Trump, Jr., writing that every time he was intimate with his wife, she was fantasizing about a former Latino boyfriend.  Even Chelsea Clinton found Reines' comment "vile." Reines turns up regularly on CNN This Morning, and on today's show said: "Donald Trump is about as complicated to some of us, and to me, to figure out as a clogged toilet is to a plumber." Reines took his scatalogical shot in the context of a discussion about Trump's naming his campaign manager Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff. Remind us, Mark Cuban: what did you say about Trump not liking "strong, intelligent women" around him? Reines wished "good luck" to Wiles, because "it's going to be worse"—presumably compared to Trump's first term—because he' "older, more cantankerous, and more stubborn." Reines also disparaged Wiles' abilities. He noted that whereas she traveled on the plane with Trump more than campaign managers traditionally do, she wasn't able to prevent Laura Loomer from getting on the plane, "So we can't say that she effectively did x,y, or z." When host Kasie Hunt came to Wiles' defense, saying "Well, she did get her off the plane," the ungracious Reines dismissed it as "a pretty low bar."  You know what else is "pretty low," Philippe? Reines and Hillary. Made for each other! Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 11/8/24 6:08 am ET PHILIPPE REINES: If you go back to Elliot's term: adult in the room, by implication that means the other people in the room are children. So it's unfortunate, we're right back to this, where there has to be someone who can, whatever term you want to use, control, corral. Yes, it is a little strange for a campaign manager to be on the road so much, but we should see it for what it is. It's not, it wasn't a move out of power, to be close to the president, but out of fear. What happens when he listens to Corey Lewandowski? What happens when Laura Loomer gets on the plane? This guy's not any different. But congratulations to her. Good luck to her. Because this is going to be a doozy. It's going to be worse. But let's not pretend or hopefully not go through months of, what Trump are we going to see? Molly just said it: let Trump be Trump. He was Trump. We're gonna see that no matter who works for him. . . .   This isn't any great Rubik's cube to figure out. I mean, Donald Trump is about as complicated to some of us, and to me, to figure out as a clogged toilet is to a plumber.  I mean, we've seen it. It hasn't happened in 130 something years where someone had it, lost it, and come back to it. But we've seen it. And he's older, and he's more cantankerous, and he's more stubborn.  You know, why was Laura Loomer on the plane? Susie Wiles was the campaign manager. So we can't say that she effectively did x,y, or z -- KASIE HUNT: Well, she did get her off the plane, which doesn't happen, and didn't happen with Lewandowski in Florida. MATT GORMAN: No it didn't. REINES: It's a pretty low bar. But okay.

While Donald Trump’s landslide victory has a large swath of the country in glorious celebration, liberal women have never been more distraught — to the point that they’ve adopted a new movement. Specifically, the 4B movement, which is shorthand for four Korean words that start with “Bi,” or the Korean word for “no.” “Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline: No marriage No childbirth No dating men No sex with men We can’t let these men have the last laugh… we need to bite back,” one woman wrote in a now extremely viral post on X. “I’m not really sure if that’s a major problem that some of these women are having, that men are just so all over them that they have be like, ‘No, Donald Trump won, don’t touch me,’” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable" comments, amused. Some women have begun filming themselves shaving their heads in retaliation on TikTok, with one user telling her audience, as she chops off all her hair, to “divorce your husbands” and “leave your boyfriends.” Stuckey, while she disagrees with Trump’s plan to leave abortion up to the states, can’t see why these women don’t understand that nothing is going to happen to their “right” to an abortion. “If it is so important to you women to live in a place where you can have an abortion, if that is really as important as you people think that is, which I think is sick and depraved, then you can move to a state that allows it,” Stuckey explains. “There are eight states that tragically allow abortion through all nine months,” she continues. “If you think that this is the most fundamental issue, the greatest issue, then why don’t you flee like a refugee to California or to Washington or to Oregon or to Illinois or to New York if this is so important to you?” “I don’t believe you when you say it’s that important if you’re not even willing to move within your own country for that so-called right to choose. And so, are you just being dramatic? Really think about that. And think about the fact that those babies that you are crying and dying to kill are human beings with rights,” she adds. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

On Thursday, a federal judge dealt a significant blow to the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to provide mass amnesty to at least 550,000 illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.Earlier this year, a coalition of 16 Republican-led states, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and America First Legal, filed a lawsuit against the administration for its “Keeping Families Together” program. The program would have granted amnesty to illegal immigrant spouses and stepchildren of American citizens, Blaze News previously reported. 'Once again, we have stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy America’s borders and undermine the rule of law.'Additionally, the program would have permitted beneficiaries to parole in place, allowing them to remain in the country while their status is adjusted.The lawsuit, filed by the 16 state attorneys general, argued that the administration’s claim that it would apply to roughly 550,000 illegal aliens was “likely a significant underestimate,” projecting that it could be closer to 1.3 million.The complaint contended that the process was unconstitutional because it circumvented Congress and would “irreparably harm” the states’ communities.U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker, a Trump-appointed judge, sided with the states’ lawsuit, striking down the program.In his 74-page ruling, Barker stated that the administration’s program “focuses on the wrong thing in identifying ‘significant public benefits’ — the benefits of aliens’ new legal status, rather than their presence in this country.”“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and is not in accordance with law for this reason as well,” he concluded, adding that the “defendants’ view stretches legal interpretation past its breaking point.”“The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority … to grant parole ‘in place’ to aliens,” Barker wrote. America First Legal Executive Director Gene Hamilton stated, “Since day one, the Biden-Harris administration has dedicated itself to the decimation of our immigration system and the erasure of our borders.”“Time and again, the states stood up. And today, the great state of Texas and the courageous Ken Paxton, alongside a coalition of other brave attorneys general, succeeded in stopping an illegal program that would have provided amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and paved the path for the largest administrative amnesty in American history,” Hamilton added.Paxton wrote in a post on X, “Once again, we have stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy America’s borders and undermine the rule of law. This unlawful parole scheme would have rewarded more than 1 million illegal aliens with citizenship and incentivized millions more to break into our country. I look forward to the day when the federal government starts following the law again.”The administration’s Department of Justice can decide to appeal Barker’s ruling.Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security responded to CBS News’ requests for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Several professors at Ivy League schools canceled classes, excused absences, and allowed exams to be rescheduled because former President Donald Trump decidedly won the 2024 election. The Harvard Crimson reported that the school's dean, Rakesh Khurana, told students to “let yourself feel a bunch of emotions about how this is going to impact us in the future, and listen to other people and how they feel about it too.”'[If] you don't feel up for class, absences today will be excused.'The outlet noted that following Trump's election victory, instructors for courses such as Statistics for Social Sciences, Solving and Optimizing, the Ancient Greek Hero, and Popular Culture and Modern China had canceled their Wednesday classes, made attendance optional, or extended assignment deadlines.Economics lecturer Maxim Boycko allegedly sent an email to students in an Intermediate Microeconomics course that in-class quizzes would be optional.“As we recover from the eventful election night and process the implications of Trump’s victory, please know that class will proceed as usual today, except that classroom quizzes will not be for credit,” Boycko reportedly wrote. “Feel free to take time off if needed.”Physics professor Jennifer E. Hoffman purportedly wrote in an email to students and faculty that her office would be “a space to process the election.”“Many in our community are sleep-deprived, again grieving for glass ceilings that weren't shattered, fearful for the future, or embarrassed to face our international colleagues,” Hoffman reportedly wrote. “I stress-baked several pans of lemon bars to share.”Citing internal emails, the Washington Free Beacon reported that a Columbia professor granted students permission to skip class."I hope you are hanging in there. I have been think of you over the last few days," the Columbia professor reportedly wrote to her students. "[If] you don't feel up for class, absences today will be excused."Meanwhile, because of the election results, a professor at Columbia University's sister school, Barnard College, allegedly offered students a chance to "replace" an exam on which they performed poorly. "In recognition of the increased stressed [sic] some of you might be feeling because of the election results, I will offer to replace your midterm Exam 2 grade with your Final Exam grade if better," a Barnard professor reportedly wrote to students. Campus Reform reported that Michigan State University Professor Shlagha Borah canceled classes because Trump won the election.Borah, an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, allegedly told her students in a memo on Wednesday night, "I am cancelling class today to grieve the presidential election results. As a queer, immigrant woman of color, I cannot, in good conscience, go on about my day like everything is alright."”This is a major historical event that we are witnessing," Borah added. "I hope you take this time to take care of yourself."Michigan State University spokesperson Mark Bullion told the College Fix on Thursday that campus leaders are “aware of the situation and are addressing it through the appropriate leadership channels.”The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that several professors at the University of Pennsylvania canceled classes in response to the election. Economics professor Anne Duchene told the outlet she made attendance optional to her class in advance of the election results. “I thought maybe, [having an optional lecture] can help everyone pretend it’s business as usual, instead of just looking at your screens constantly, trying to understand what [happened],” Duchene reportedly stated. “I just wanted to acknowledge the wide variety of emotions that were in the classroom and also to respect these emotions,” Duchene allegedly said. “It's really hard to know how the students are, what the students are really thinking, but my interpretation is that they wanted to have a normal class.” Neuroscience professor Michael Kaplan also pre-emptively canceled his Wednesday classes, according to the report. Anthropology professor Caroline Jones allegedly rescheduled an exam after “a slew of emails” from students expressed concern about preparing for an exam scheduled right after the election. The Phoenix, a student-run newspaper at Swarthmore College, where annual tuition and room and board cost about $65,000, reported on the reaction to the election results:As the Swarthmore community came to terms with the news, an outpouring of resources flooded their inboxes. Some professors canceled classes, the Office of Student Engagement encouraged students to use Sharples Commons as a "safe space to land," and the department of political science promoted its pre-scheduled panel discussion set for Wednesday afternoon, "Election Night 2024: What Just Happened and What’s to Come."As Blaze News reported this week, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy established "self-care suites" following Trump's decisive 2024 election victory. Georgetown University attempted to soothe liberal students by offering them milk and cookies, hot cocoa, Legos, and coloring books. Like Blaze News? 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Despite RPGs being ostensibly about inhabiting a particular role, one core requirement is that you’ll continually grow in strength. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing Dragon Age Origins, Baldur’s Gate 3, or even Disco Elysium, the idea that down the line you’ll be stronger or more capable than you are right now is a tenet of the fantasies they embody. Brighter Shores, the new RPG from RuneScape creator Andrew Gower, is daring to do it differently, and it’s fair to say it hasn’t gone over entirely well with fans. In response, the developer has taken to Steam to justify its decision in the face of this backlash, begging players to “please give it a chance.” Continue reading Brighter Shores creator begs players to give the fantasy RPG a chance MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best MMORPGs, Best free PC games, Best fantasy games

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