You Know What Would Be Interesting?
Las week, I was with my family for a short stay in Las Vegas. Our son graduated from high school and the trip was his graduation gift. His favorite video game ever is Fallout New Vegas…so his goal wasn’t as much to walk the infamous Las Vegas strip, but to see all the locations featured in the game, like Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon. So our family went and had a lovely time. Jeanne stayed put and served as the captain of the ship. She hates when we travel - she prefers her people all on the ground, preferably in our house across the road from her house. But other than that, she was smooth sailing through calm seas.
So let’s talk about all the things going on:
Our plans for PJP West End are officially at the city planning office for review. Aside from a few logistical changes, it will look remarkably similar to our current storefront. And even so, I’ll bet you darn near anything that some changes will be required. And probably the blood of the above mentioned high school graduate as an offering since he is our first born.
You likely know that Jeanne and her husband built the current pie display case we have at PJP right as we opened in 2014. We’ve grown a lot since then and that case needs more cubbies and to be longer and taller…plus we need another for PJP West End. And now Jeanne and her husband are seven years older and she isn’t too keen on giving up her limited free time watching Gunsmoke to woodwork in the garage. That said, it is almost impossible to find a skilled trim carpenter with availability to build pie display cases over the summer. If you know of someone, please drop me an email.
It feels like between PJP West End and Crime Scene Kitchen, nothing about our day-to-day PJP life seems exceptionally dramatic. I promise you I’m the only person to ever simultaneously appear on a television show and open a second store and actually say out loud…dang, I need something interesting to happen.
You know what would be interesting? PJP Las Vegas.
Oh, though…we are pleased to announce that we’ve become an Internet meme and we aren’t even embarrassed. In our first episode of Crime Scene Kitchen, I have the idea to add an egg to our cannoli filling to thicken in. In my defense, I didn’t have a recipe and it SEEMED logical at the time. And if you watched, you know the judges didn’t think it was a super good idea, given salmonella and all. It was edited out, but Jeanne has an entire soliloquy about the safety of pasteurized eggs that was worthy of an Oscar nomination. At any rate, we filmed the entire episode over the course of two days and at the very end of the day, I remarked to Jeanne that I was thankful we didn’t kill Curtis Stone with the raw egg. And that’s how we lead up to her infamous quote: “WHO IS CURTIS STONE?” Because she legitimately had no clue what the judge’s name was after two solid days of filming. Somehow, I don’t think we will be invited for a private visit to Curtis’ pie room in Los Angeles, do you?
