Entries tagged with 'pies'
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Not only are autumn leaves falling all over the sidewalks and our lawns this time of year, they're also popping up on pies, cookies, and chocolates. Autumn leaf cookie cutters are a savior when you don't have the patience to trace a leaf shape for 20 cookies or 50 tiny leaves on an apple pie. Take a peek at these savory and sweet Autumn leaf pies by Megan Reardon from Not Martha, perfectly shaped with a cookie cutter to reflect the outdoors and filled with market ingredients. Though Megan based her creations on recipes, I'm convinced the sky's the limit for this variation on a hand pie. For a sweet pie, I'd stuff mine with sautéed pears, honey, and...
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Photo from GirlieErin on Flickr The second season of Pushing Daisies is back on ABC this Wednesday, and as a pie enthusiast, I believe this can only be good for the world. The show is about a guy with magical death-reversing powers, but more importantly, it's about pie. Ned is a pie-maker at "The Pie Hole," where, last season, he whipped up an apple pie with Gruyère baked into the crust to cheer up his girlfriend's cheese-loving spinster aunts. (He also laced anti-depressants into the batter, but that's another story). The apple pie with cheese theory has roots in England, where it developed the nickname "Yorkshire pie." At first slightly gross-sounding, the concept grows on you. The marriage between...
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What this world needs is more pie charts that are actually made out of pie....
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One day, while paging through a now-forgotten cookbook, I found a recipe for shoo-fly. I was intrigued—It was a pie that I had never tasted, let alone heard of. Adding to its lure, the recipe called for just a handful of common ingredients, all of which we had on hand, and was accompanied by, as I recall, a rather provocative image of a crumb-topped beauty with a ring of sticky, tar-like goodness around its perimeter.
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Not Martha makes adorable pies in tiny jars after seeing them at lloyrdandlauren.com. The result is an ample supply of snack sized pies in ready-to-bake containers that you can pull out of the freezer whenever you get a pie craving. Follow Not Martha's tips for successful tiny pie-making! Related For an Edible Container, Try Bacon Bowls Photo of the Day: Crawly Spider Cakes Vodka: the Secret to Foolproof Pie Dough...
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I forgot my scale (I was going to throw it into my duffel bag when we left the house on Wednesday), so I'm afraid there will be no moment of reckoning, no not-so-high drama, in my diet post this week. We have been up on Martha's Vineyard for two days now, and I must say my diet challenges up here are great, so there's plenty to write about and report on. I have been coming to the Vineyard for more than thirty years now, and I have battled my addiction to pie for at least that long. Check that. I think my mother must have been addicted to pie, so she gave birth to a pie-addicted son more than fifty...
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Mrs. Smith's parent company surveyed Americans about their 3 favorite pies. The results probably won't surprise you especially if you take into account the source, but we still couldn't resist creating a pie chart: [via Epi-log] Related A Pie Chart of Pies T-Shirt The Serious Eats Pie Honor Roll Pie Recipes...
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Photograph from VROG in Bristol on Flickr What makes March 14 so special? Besides that it's Friday, it's also the Pi Day! And while the purpose of this day may be to honor our favorite mathematical constant, it's also a great excuse to eat its buttery crusted homophone: pie. I think in honor of it being the 20th anniversary of Pi Day, you should feel no shame in eating at least 20 different kinds of pies. (You don't have to finish all of them; just think of it as a pie buffet.) Previously: The Best Pies in America: The Serious Eats Pie Honor Roll Vodka the Secret to Foolproof Pie Dough, Banana Cream Pies in New York City In Gear:...
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What is banana cream pie besides my most favorite pie in the universe? Just a combination of four of the best things on Earth: buttery pie crust, bananas, thick vanilla pudding, and a heavy dose of fluffy whipped cream. That's a little piece of stomach-crushing heaven right there. I once went to Billy's Bakery for dessert after eating dinner at Grand Sichuan with Kathy. Despite that we felt like our stomachs were going to explode and/or burn away from stuffing ourselves with hot Sichuanese food, we proceeded to dig into a hulking slice of their banana cream pie. The plastic plate it came on was barely strong enough to support the pie's heft. Each forkful of crust, banana chunk,...
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Photograph from cowfish on Flickr I enjoy dessert pies more than savory pies, but cowfish's homemade pork pie is quite a looker if you're into fat, towering cylinders of meat-filled pastry. Which I am. Witness the transformation of a pile of flour into the finished porky beauty in his raised pork pie photo set....
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