Southern Veggie Dinner

Sure, I love to bake pie.  And I make some pretty awesome pie.

But some nights, you just want a hearty, healthy, gluten-free and vegetarian dinner.  This is one I made the other night, and you can expect to see dinners like this from Butterpat...

Molasses blackeyed peas and collard greens will be staples, and of course so will my delicious honey cornbread (which is naturally gluten-free).  Look for the copper pennies on special - that's carrots cooked with onions and garlic in a maple-mustard cider vinegar sauce.

Of course there'll still be pie for dessert if you have any room left!

(Native) American Pie

I've got a new blog project called World Piece, in which I plan to create a pie in honor of every country in the world.  I started out at home with American Pie - but it's not what you think!

That's buffalo meat, two kinds of beans, butternut squash, and a richly spiced coffee gravy in a buttery cornmeal crust.  Click over here for the recipe, or save yourself the trouble and make a pledge to my Kickstarter project so I can make one for you!

Free pie pops TODAY!

So I stayed up late last night and got up early this morning to bake up about a hundred of these beautiful pie pops.  Half are filled with my own homemade blackberry jam (see pic!) and the other half with a lucious peanut butter-banana-brown sugar mix.

So come on down to Tom McCall Waterfront Park today from about 11:30 onward and look for me at the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge, or over at Salmon St. Springs.  I'll be there until I've given all of these babies away.



Did I mention they're FREE?

Of course, there's always a catch.  I'm doing this to promote my Kickstarter project to raise funds for my food cart.  So if you like my pie and want more, enjoy the free pie pop and go pay it forward with a pledge.  You get all kinds of rewards, including pie, when you pledge!

The weather's gorgeous today, by the way!  See you at the waterfront!

Welcome!

So here we are on the web, getting ready to announce our presence to the world!

Butterpat is soon to be the best Northwest-Southern Fusion food cart in Portland, Oregon.  I'm Kimberly, and I've been cooking soul food for most of my life, with a special focus on pie.  The time has come for me to share my specialties with you, so stay tuned as we try to make that happen!