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Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Luckily my mom didn't do the TV dinners, though there was an occasional pot pie. My least favorite food had to be tuna casserole, beef stroganoff and creamed corn. At least they were not on the same night.
Would You Go to a Chain Restaurant on a First Date?
Not a deal breaker for me. For my husband and I's first date we got pizza and breadsticks from Pizza Hut. Twelve years later we are still together.
Cooking from the Glossies: Dark Chocolate and Cherry Brownies
I love brownies! My go to recipe is the Ina Garten Barefoot Contessa Outrageous brownies. The original recipe makes a huge batch, so I have found the mix to be a pretty good (and easy) alternative. Definitely not diet friendly though.
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Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I really dislike regular pie crust, but give me a good graham cracker crust and I will eat the whole thing.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Luckily my mom didn't do the TV dinners, though there was an occasional pot pie. My least favorite food had to be tuna casserole, beef stroganoff and creamed corn. At least they were not on the same night.
Would You Go to a Chain Restaurant on a First Date?
Not a deal breaker for me. For my husband and I's first date we got pizza and breadsticks from Pizza Hut. Twelve years later we are still together.
Cooking from the Glossies: Dark Chocolate and Cherry Brownies
I love brownies! My go to recipe is the Ina Garten Barefoot Contessa Outrageous brownies. The original recipe makes a huge batch, so I have found the mix to be a pretty good (and easy) alternative. Definitely not diet friendly though.
The Most Disgusting School Lunches
I recall a few bad items. The first was the "ham" salad sandwiches. I say "ham" because it was really bologna salad. The second was something called sno caps. These were plain hot dogs with a scoop of mashed potatoes and covered with shredded cheddar cheese. Some kids (not me) then covered them in ketchup.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I've always put up with the filling to get at that crust! MMM! Snapping off the golden brown crunchy goodness as a prelude of the goodness to come! MMM!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
CRUSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!! Yes! Yes! Yes! Flour, butter, sugar, a pinch of salt, lovingly baked together..........H-E-A-V-E-N ON EARTH! Which is why my 3 favorite baked goods have always been plain scones [from Premier Gourmet here in Buffalo, NY-no one makes them better] shortbread cookies, and my piecrust made only with butter. Ya know, my husband will chow down.....no pun intended..... the innards of one of my fruit or pudding pies and leave the crust. He does it with everyone's pie......disgusting!!! However I usually retrieve the fluted edges of his discard to savor as dessert to my now finished piece!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I lurve the toasty taste of a nicely browned pie crust and I truly love nutty flavor of the crimped edge. That said, nothing tastes better than a crisp, well-browned crust with a tart-sweet fruit filling. Boysenberries, anyone?
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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 :)
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I have ignored fillings before, yes. It is better when you can eat the filling and the crust together but the crust is almost never problematic.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I agree that a higher crust-to-fruit ratio is preferable with fruit pies. The filling is often too sweet and I like a good thick crust to balance it.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Not particularly but my husband loves, loves, loves pie crust by itself.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
@PommeDG: Knowing Robyn's mom personally... yeah, this conversations definitely happened.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I totally ignore the fruit - especially when its way too gooey. I'm a crust eater all the way.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
@PommeDG: Yeah, she was....I talked to her on the phone yesterday afternoon before I wrote this post. (Can't say I have a recording of the conversation, but my coworkers overheard me.) After she told me how much she liked crust and how not into filling she was, I said something like, "Uh mom, people usually like to eat both together," and she she responded with surprise. Not that she doesn't understand that people tend to eat both together, just that her tolerance for sweetness must be so low that she's surprised most people enjoy the fillings, or something like that.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
When you told her, your mother was suprised that people like to eat filling and crust together?!? :-| Shouldn't an artifice at least serve a purpose and be a little less obviously contrived?
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I heart pie crust. I usually eat the fruit filling first leaving the pie crust to enjoy last. When I have leftover pie dough scraps, I end up putting dabs of Nutella in and making mini turnovers.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Oh I have been doing this for years! I used to joke that I performed "stealth surgery" on pies because I could hit the dessert table at family Christmases or Thanksgivings and remove 2 slices worth of crust, leaving behind most of the filling, and no one realized what I was doing:)
If fillings are made with good, fresh fruit and not loaded w/ sugar, I'll eat them. But all too often, I'd take a bite and realize the apple or cherry filling was canned. Not wasting calories on that, thanks!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I also love pie crust and save it for last. On the rare occasion that my mom made pies from scratch, she'd roll out the scraps and do the sugar/cinnamon thing as a few people above described. I liked that better than the pie.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
My mom is completely the opposite. She'll eat the filling and maybe half of the top crust, and leave the rest for the dog!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
When we were young, my grandmother always dusted the pie crust with cinnamon sugar and baked them. Those toasty, crispy, lightly sweet bites were always my favorite part of the pie making process.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I love pie crust. I always save the crust for last.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Depending on the fruit, I will often leave a little mound of filling untouched and polish off the crust - I like a less fruity crust-to-fruit ratio in my bites. Mmm... crust.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Goo-enhanced crust + ice cream!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
i love pie...filling, crust-all of it.
i get weird with cake tho-leave off the icing entirely & just let me at the cake itself.
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I really dislike regular pie crust, but give me a good graham cracker crust and I will eat the whole thing.