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I’m also partial to Key Lime pie. I like tangy things, and Key Lime is tangy and delicious with all that meringue piled high on top. Lime is a severely underrated flavor, if you ask me. People don’t give it enough credit.

A few years back, while sorting through some old recipes my mother had collected in a wooden recipe box, we stumbled upon a faded recipe for Sweet Potato Pie. It was my Grandmother Jarriel’s recipe, written in her own cursive handwriting. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t tried making it yet, but this year is the year. Every year, I try to make a few of the older recipes that have been passed down in our family, keeping those traditions alive. I’m sure it’ll be wonderful, because everything my grandmother made was mouth-watering good. That woman could flat-out cook!

So here’s to pie season, to shortcuts that save our sanity, to family recipes that connect us to those who came before, and to husbands who prefer pie to cake. May your crusts be flaky, your fillings be sweet, and your holidays be full of love and laughter.