As the title of this post states… I burned down the kitchen.

At least according to the OH SO CHARMING Mr. Ashworth… I did.

And. I’ll just leave it right there. Without explanation. CHEERS! 

Kidding! It is me after all…

Lets jump into the DeLorean, punch in September 2015 on the time machine and GUN IT to 88 mph… So I can give you a tour of my “burnt down kitchen.”

Aw look! My old apartment… Where I lived for 5-years… And where GiGi Eats Celebrities ALL BEGAN!

Ok GiGi, quit it with the nostalgic recollection… Get to the part where the sexy firefighters come to in put out the fire in your kitchen.

And now I made this story sound like the beginning of a porn…

Oh but wait… I can’t get to that part of the story, because IT NEVER HAPPENED. GUESS WHAT EVERYONE?! My kitchen NEVER BURNT DOWN. In fact, on the day that Landon compared my kitchen to that of the ashy remains of a structure defeated by fire… My little silver galley actually more resembled that of Miss Suzy Homemaker’s Bakery… And if anyone who knew me came over to visit that day, they would have thought my body were possessed by the devil. However, my body was actually possessed by love (I admit this cheesy truth)…

I guess some people think the two go hand in hand?

Yep. Being in love can make you do some crazy ass shit… And for me, on that day specifically, the “psychotic event” love made me do was allow sugar, milk, butter, white flours and bananas into my food sanctuary.

As I have said time and time again… But perhaps you’re new to this neck of “the blog woods”… I cannot eat wheat, dairy, gluten, sugar, soy, nuts and fruit thus having purchased said ingredients is pretty much blasphemy! But for the pilot, actor, model, director, writer, producer, editor, musician, astrophysicist and golfer (okay, can you choose one, Landon?) I met on Tinder…

LET ME MIX ALL THOSE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER and see IF IT MAKES A PIE!

If you classify me as a food blogger, then that might be a weird statement (that’s right, I never made an actual pie before in my life). But when you live without so many food groups, for so long, pies dissipate from your life, much like your beloved stuffed animal from childhood.

Before my brain starts thinking about Chickie… Awww, Chickie… Let me get back to my story.

Any who… I’d only known this man, who wears so many friggin’ hats, for about a year and a half at this point and I had learned many things about him, one of them being… Out of all the pies on the face of the planet, banana cream pie WITH A GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST, was his ultimate “FORK YES” dessert… So my non-baking self decided on a random, lets say Tuesday, to make the pie and surprise him with it.

I can honestly admit that I remember grocery shopping for this pie like it was yesterday… I went to Trader Joe’s, picked up all the ingredients (and some butter lettuce because TJ’s has the best bagged butter lettuce in my opinion) and then… I did something that, to Landon (and maybe you too?), is most certainly sacrilegious… I found and purchased… A PRE-MADE PIE CRUST.

As you may recall from what you read above… Landon loves banana cream pie… WITH A GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST. And the pie crust that made its way CONFIDENTLY into my shopping cart… My grocery bag and then shoved its way into my freezer until needed… Yeah, NOT graham cracker but at all.

However, now that I am looking at ingredients… I am noticing that graham crackers and this pie crust have VERY ones… Does honey REALLY make a difference?

And, I may have just lost a little more “food blogger cred.” – ha!

Any who…

My thought process was this though:

“Let me perfect the banana custard first… And once I get his approval on that… Then I can master the crust. One step at a time. Regardless, I mean, all my teachers from back in the day used to tell me that it’s the effort that truly counts… Right?”

Yeah. Wrong. Dead. FORKING. WRONG.

I have to admit, I seriously perfected the FORK out of that cream. I put bananas IN IT… Something Mr. Picky Pants loves. But then I poured it into my weird frozen crust that was basically half thawed and kind of crumbled in my disposable pie pan… But the only thing going through my mind at that point was, “it’s the effort that counts!”

Later that evening (it was raining, I state this just to really make you feel as though you traveled back in time in the DeLorean)… I got a call from the pictdetoritduceditsiciaastrophysiolfer stating he was coming over with pizza.

Immediately annoyed (cause um, what about food for me, bro?!) I gave away the surprise that I made him a banana cream pie… And the first thing he said:

“IT BETTER HAVE A GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST”…

The fiery bitch within was ignited.

Mr. Pizza Delivery Man arrived (Should add that to the list of things he does?)… Eating pizza and spewing out a speech about graham crackers as he walked through the door, sat on the couch and said “SHOW IT TO ME”.

I started taking off my top… Ha, KIDDING!

My fire-blazing eyed self IMMEDIATELY TOLD him he did not deserve such a treat from me…

To which he then compared the pie HE NEVER EVEN TRIED to me burning down my kitchen! 

And honestly, I was so FORKING PISSED OFF… I swear my internal fire could have actually set the fire alarm off.

But all that’s in the past now… And when he and I jokingly recount this fight (pretty much one of our only fights to date), he swears he stormed out dramatically… While I know for a fact I told him to get his pizza eating lecturing-self out of my place.

What we can both agree on though is that we did not talk for at least two weeks.

And then he apologized. 

Now in order to get back into the DeLorean to head back to March 2018 … You need to click the YouTube video below (and be warned that there is *comedic profanity* in it)… Where you may be shocked to learn what I decided to attempt to do for my husband (yep, I still married him after THAT “fiasco,” ha! ha! ha!)… For his BIRTHDAY!

The recipe used for this experiment was NOT my own… I got it from ALLRECIPES.com… This video will confirm whether or not you should use it if you need specific recipes in the future!

• 3/4 Cup Sugar
• 1/3 Cup All-Purpose Flour
• 1/4 Tsp Salt
• 3 Egg Yolks, Beaten
• 2 Tbs Butter
• 1 1/4 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 4 Bananas
• 1 1/2 Cups Ground Graham Crackers
• 1/3 Cup Sugar
• 6 Tbs Melted Butter
• 1/2 Tsp Cinnamon

To get this pie in your face… Check out the VIDEO!

SO TELL ME…

• Tell me about a fight you had with someone that you can laugh about now, but made you so angry in the moment?
• Graham Cracker Crust… Yay or Nay?
• I know FOUR people who’s birthday’s are on March 13th, including Landon and my mother… Do you know anyone who shares this birthday?
• If today were your birthday, what would you want to do?
• Do you think I “burned down the kitchen” for using a store-bought crust?
• What day/year would you go back to if you could jump into the DeLorean?
• Did you enjoy the BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK of what it’s like to film a cooking video solo? Would you like me to always keep my camera rolling when I actually make the recipe for future videos?!

By the way, Landon and I started a humorous Instagram Page and Facebook Page about how much he “hates” me! Come and follow along!