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I also love the pastry snails made from leftover dough, butter, sugar and cinnamon. I like crust, but not the bottom soggy crust. Usually pick around it and leave it behind. Lately I've been making little tarts and putting just a dab of whatever homemade jam or jelly is around. I use less sugar so the fruit flavor is more pronounced. Good way to clean the refrigerator out of too many jars with just a dab in the bottom. I've also used guava paste and quince paste with good results. I have silicone tart pans and a tart tamper gadget that takes the work out of pressing the dough in place. It really works! Can't live without it now. Here is my dough recipe. It exactly fits two 12 cup tart pans and I whip it up in the food processor. A fast sugar pastry fix!
JAM TARTS
6 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup unbleached flour
1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
Cream butter and sugar. Add yolk and vanilla. Mix well.
Add flours and salt. Mix just to combine.
Pinch off about a tablespoon of dough, roll gently into a ball and press into tart mold.
Fill with a teaspoon of jam or jelly.
Bake at 350 for 9 to 11 minutes. The edges should be very lightly golden.
Cool on rack. Make a pot of tea and try not to devour them all.

I also am a "good" crust junkie. When my mother made pies she always had enough scraps left to make what we kids called piewheels. She would roll out the scraps into a rectangle shape, put a layer of butter then brown sugar and sprinkle with nutmeg & cinammon. It was the rolled up on the longer side, edges pinched and cut into little rolls. These were baked until golden brown & bubbly. I cannot make a pie without a few piewheels to snack on while the pies finish baking. Even friends ask me to make them.

This sounds exactly like my Asian family. Everything is "too sweet! too sweet!" We also scrape most of the frosting off cakes. I'm a savory kind of gal, but my favorite sweet pie is when the fruit filling is a bit tart.

i could never resist fruit pie filling! But, that being said, i used to make little pie crust cut-out cookies for an old boyfriend. He loved them - they were little, flaky bits of goodness that were covered in cinnamon and sugar. Good alone, with milk, or sprinkled over ice cream... mmmmm :)

I think whoever said "maybe crust haters are used to store bought crusts and never had a scratch crust" might be onto something. Well-made scratch crust...OMG, nothing like it. And you KNOW that someone making a scratch crust would not waste such a labor of love on acky Sandra Lee canned filling.

I loooooooove pie crust unplugged, especially hot, with a glass of ice cold (whole) milk. I usually make a two crust recipe even if I just need one for a pie so I can have a special treat.

We bought a flat (20) last week from a local organic market and had the same thing happen. All 20 eggs were double yolked. It was the weirdest thing.

Lovely! With all the harvest at the Farmer's Market -- October should be hailed vegetarian month! find your inner veggie!

well.. some guys like sweets.
I know when my bf and I were in different cities, he'd impulsively buy a whole cake from a grocery store. Granola bars (not chocolate, tho) is still his staple food.
(But he also loves chips and beer. and bacon.)

I probably do more meats and less veggies. Kettle corn, reddi-wip, crackers, oreo's and granola bars???? Who is this F!@#%$& guy?! I certainly have never watched a football game with him. What in God's green earth are reddi-wip crackers anyway? This guy needs an ass whoopin and a beer.

Here's what I like to eat...(If only I was smart enough to cook them for my simple self) Steak and eggs, bacon and eggs, steak and potato, sausage and peppers, mashed potato and some kinda meat, burritos, tacos, Pasta, Red beans and rice, Boudin, stews, chowders... fun stuff that isn't always healthy, but damned good.

So all this time I have been missing out on the glory of reddi-wip crackers, and granola bars?! HA! Pass the ribeye and the remote!

Anyway: my girlfriend's not home, so I'd best go eat my block of cheese. :)

this made me laugh.. i love the idea. ofcourse mine would have 'crappy pizza, bag of nuts (atleast its fiber!), Doritos sandwiches (yes they do exist), tuna out of a can, mountain dew, coffee, dunkin donuts, beer, more beer and crackers' on it.

if you are a man who doesn't eat like this - more power to you for embracing the inner foodie healthy person but at one point in your life you did. just admit it and laugh at yourself. its a joke people!

Some people found the talking Barbie who said "I can't do math" pretty amusing too!