I’m feeling the consequences of too much pie. I think I am honestly hung over. It is not news that pie crust is nowhere near healthy – I’m not even going to try to claim the calcium from butter. Ian and I have been eating an average of one mini-pie a day…for the past month. […]
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* Update – I made these hand pies again and used a 2 1/2 inch diameter glass to make them a little smaller. This allowed me to get a dozen from 1 recipe of dough and the serving is a little smaller (which means less calories!). Fall has me feeling like pie (shock, so did […]
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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 […]
read morePie Eyed: adj slang Intoxicated; drunk I’ve had pie on my mind since last Thanksgiving. Well, I have pie on my mind every Thanksgiving, but this time I couldn’t shake it. Maybe it was because we hosted Thanksgiving at our house for the first time. Or because I had finally graduated from babies and toddlers […]
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