I love me some peach pie! What's more summery than a fresh peach pie with cream? Well, lots of things. Ice tea, swimming, picnics, sunshine...But if you've been craving peach pie as much as I have, this one's for you.
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-4 or 5 fresh peaches
-1/4 cup flour
-Salt
-1tsp cinnamon
-1/2tsp nutmeg
-1tsp fresh lemon zest
-1/2tsp ginger
​-1/4 cup sugar
-Heavy cream
​-Pie crust

Slice your peaches and remove the skins and pits. Prepare your bottom crust in a regular 9inch pie pan. Stir in your flour, a pinch of salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, ginger, and sugar. Mix well and pour into your crust, smoothing out the top so that it is flat. Bake at 400 degrees for 30-45 minutes until crust is browned and filling bubbles. Cool pie on counter and then in fridge.

​Whip 1/2 pint of cream with a 1tbs of sugar and top the pie (now cold!) with it. Chill for a few minutes before serving.

I want more already! 

If you want to be extra thrifty you can use the skins and pits to make peach ice tea, but that's a recipe for another day.

Hope your summer is sweet!

So the other day I found myself in one of those army surplus stores with some friends. I was keeping myself busy, rummaging through clearance, when I came across a pair of slacks. Think like, officer slacks but TINY. They were a super itchy polyester fabric, but they fit me perfectly! I didn't get a photo with them on, but you'll have to take my word for it.

I was really into how simple they were. I'd been searching all the stores for the past two months for a pair of slacks with no luck. Old Navy, Marshalls, Target, Salvation Army, Goodwill, NOTHING FIT!!!! I considered making some but I was dreading buying a pattern and having to make a mockup. Then in a stroke of luck, I walked into the army surplus store and found slacks that felt like they were made for me. 

The other amazing thing about these pants is how adjustable they are. They were made to be altered!

The more people I talk to people the more I realize that department store clothes really don't fit anyone. They are poorly made and nobody ever seems to be comfortable in them. These pants were anything but that. I was intrigued by the construction of them, so I decided to tear them apart to find out more and create a pattern out of them. 

I started by taking the crotch seam apart. I'd never made slacks before, but any time I've made pants I sew them like this:
- Side seam
-Crotch seam
-Inseam
-Fastenings/buttons

The slacks were sewn in this order:
-Left pant leg inseam/outseam
-Right pant leg inseam/outseam
-Zipper
-Waistband
-Crotch seam

All the seams were left open and raw edges were serged. The construction was so simple I could probably whip up a pair of these in two hours. 

Once I took them apart, I ironed all the pieces flat. Now I can use them any time I want to make new pants. I'm super excited to make a new pair of slacks! Do you think more clothes should be made simply, like these? I know I'm a big fan!