This has become my favorite recipe. Not just because it’s everything you’d ever want in a holiday pie, but because it’s a collaboration with my former colleague, cellist Dane Johansen from The Cleveland Orchestra. Quick aside – I had a brief stint working as a fundraiser at The Cleveland Orchestra. Not only are they one […]
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The pie I think least about is apple pie. Not apple sour cherry or apple plum – just regular apple pie. It seems boring to me, yet it’s the most coveted emblem of American dessert eating. To be honest, any of the apple mash-ups on this blog can be changed into a regular apple pie. […]
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This may be my new signature pie for fall. That title used to be taken by my Apple Sour Cherry pie but after making this one last weekend and sharing an extra with a friend, I’m going to put this on the “make for Thanksgiving ” list. The reviews were a unanimous thumbs up. I […]
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This pie has a long name. I couldn’t bring myself to discount any of these ingredients because they are all what makes this pie so good. I thought I had made the holy grail of summer pies with the peach blueberry, but this one was an accidental show stopper. Summer pies are so special not […]
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12. That’s the number of times I have made this pie since July when blueberries came into season. It’s been my most requested pie of the summer and people can’t get enough of it. So naturally, I decided it’s time to share it! The recipe itself is not particularly special, though I do think adding […]
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Winter break had me two steps away from turning into Jack Nicholson in The Shining. The snow paired with the dangerously freezing temperatures squashed my list of fun outdoor activities to do with the family and left me grasping for any excuse to get the kids out of the house (I wanted to stay IN […]
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My host son is a pie fanatic. He would eat a pie everyday if I let him. In fact, twice now he has taken a whole pie to school for lunch. If he appreciates one thing about America during his year here, at least I know that pie will be towards the top of the […]
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Hygge. It’s all the rage in my house right now. Pronounced, Hoog-ah, but not really because it’s impossible to write it phonetically and make it sound right, it is the Danish word for the feeling of coziness. Hygge goes beyond coziness, though. It seems to be a word that the Danes use to explain warm feelings […]
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Pie Crust Rolling Hack My pie crust recipe has remained unchanged since forgoing shortening several years ago, so I think of my pie-making as unchanged. Sagi (my fiancé and the man behind all things tech at Pie Eyed) found and edited a pie video that we shot last year revealing that growth (or at the […]
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Reach out. Roll balls. That was the tag line for my New Year’s resolution in 2015. I had slipped into a terrible habit of not proactively reaching out to friends and getting the ball rolling on plans. I was either the recipient of an invitation where I joined in the fun, or text strings would […]
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Sweet Surrender If the sweetest bit of surrender is inherent in pie baking, Sunday’s peach pie required downright capitulation. My plan was to make a lattice crust peach pie. I’m a huge fan of multi-fruit pies (or mashups as Emily calls them), but am so thrilled with the new bounty of local peaches in my […]
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Summer fruit is hitting the markets and I am in pie heaven. There are so many beautiful choices now and the combinations to put into a pie crust are endless. If I wrote a recipe for every fruit pie I made, you would see that the foundation for each one is the same. So, rather […]
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