With Reagan Leadbetter.... it's all about cake.  Any kind of cake.  As long as it has butter cream frosting.  Cake makes her happy and she admits it.

With Mike McKay... it's all about pie*.  Cream pie... fruit pie... it's all good.  When Marie Callendar has it's annual pie sale... I'm first in line.  Especially for the key lime pie.  Another McKay favorite is peach pie.  For years now, every time my birthday rolls around... it's gotta be a birthday pie and ice cream.  Just stick the candle in the middle of it and get out of the way.

Pie... good pie, that is... is so much more flavorful than cake.  So much more of a treat.  Creating a good pie is more of an art form.  It takes more effort.  It requires more dedication... more love.  I know... because I've tried making different types of pies and I readily admit, I'm not very good at it yet.

So, today on Good Things Utah... I'm in the kitchen making a sherbet pie.  Not exactly sure what that is... but as long as it's pie, I don't care.  Apparently, there's lots of fruit and lots of whipped cream in it.  Mmmmmm......  (Sorry, I was having a Homer Simpson moment there.)  Carol Medworth, our GTU kitchen coordinator is painstakingly walking me through the process.  Carol is a saint.  Having me in the kitchen requires extra patience.  But she gives me the room I need to expand my horizons and explore.  Then, she and a half dozen interns get to clean up after me!  Cooking on tv is great.  The only problem is figuring out a way to have the pie all to myself.  Even though Reagan is a cake fan, I know she'll be leading the rest of the GTU girls into the kitchen to help me "taste test".  Maybe Carol could squirt them with the fire extinquisher.  And isn't that Todd Gross over there, standing just off set with a fork in hand?  It's pie paranoia, people.

Until next time...

MM

*(Editor's note:  the word "pie" in Mike McKay's world is pronounced with a redneck twang, i.e. "paah".  Used in a sentence...."That sure was some dang good paah, ma!"