I’m on a slippery slope right now with pumpkin pie. I must have touched some kryptonite-laced pumpkin because my powers are gone. Recently, I hosted a Pie Supper (more on that later) and made pumpkin pie as one of the choices. Five of them to be exact. I followed my usual recipe, par-baked the crusts […]
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I will go to great lengths to avoid blind baking a pie crust. It is my least favorite task and I will settle for a soggy bottom before I spend an extra half hour pre-baking and cooling a crust. However, there are times when it is necessary and it can be done successfully with a […]
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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 […]
read more“I could never make crust.” That is the #1 reason people give for not making pie. The prepping, making filling and the baking all pale in comparison to how worried people are about making crust. No judgment here – I totally get it. Crust was the bane of my existence for easily the first six […]
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I have a change addiction. Not change like shiny quarters and pennies, but actual change, as in the verb. I find myself always working towards the next big thing. In my 20’s it was easy. Change came around every year or so. A new apartment, a new job, an engagement, a wedding – I was […]
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“You’re taking something that’s perfect and trying to make it more perfect” said my friend Kelly. I was trying to convince her that the mini pies she took home a couple of weeks ago were some of my worst – a chocolate pudding pie experiment gone wrong. And she got me thinking – is there […]
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I had to do it. It was the natural next step. It was time to make pie crust with LARD. For some reason, I was having a hard time making the leap. It’s the word – lard. The first thing that comes to mind is the Lard A$$ pie eating contest in the movie Stand […]
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Enough about all of the books, blogs and articles that espouse how to make great pie. It’s time to put my hands in the bowl and get dirty. Over the past month or so, I’ve made ten attempts at various incarnations of a pie crust (attempt number eleven is in the fridge as I type). […]
read moreFour. Maybe Five. That’s it. That’s the number of ingredients that you need to make a pie crust. And they are all ingredients that you probably have in your house right now. Compared to the ingredients needed to make a cake, pie crust should be, well, a piece of cake! I had always heard that […]
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In July, I decided to up my game and start making new pie recipes once a week. Practice makes perfect is what I hear. And most people will say that it takes years of practice to become a master pie maker. So, I’m going to condense years of practice into an intensive fall/winter pie school […]
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