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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 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.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
That's very funny, because everyone I know actually hates eating the crust and would rather the pie be without it. Well, besides me. The crust has always been my favorite part.
On the other hand, maybe they don't like the crust because they're used to buying store bought pie shells instead of making their own. Home made is definitely the best.
As for the pie filling, I really dislike most fruit pies because, indeed, they're too sweet and way too gooey. Coconut is my favorite, pumpkin is lovely, lemon is very nice, and chocolate is good too, but I usually can't eat a fruit pie unless I make it myself.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Crust is a boat and filling is the reason for the pie!
But;; I enjoy crust part more than filling. well I actually like eating filling and crust seperately and it all comes together eventually anyway:)
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I sprinkle the pie crust trimmings with sugar and cinnamon, roll up in twists, and bake. Or roll out pie crust in rectangle shape to fit cookie sheet. Bake, then break up, add strawberries and whipped cream for strawberry shortcake.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
I generally eat the two parts separately, saving the best part (the crust of course) for last. Then I'll go around the table and ask everyone else if they're going to eat their "pie bones"!
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
@Ineedtacos: I still roll out and bake the extra crust for my grand kids, I sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar.
But I like pies with filling too.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Yes. So much so that every T-Giving, I mix a batch of Rose Levy Beranbaum's Cheddar Pie Crust and make cookies out of it. I use gingerbread cooky cutters, brush with egg wash, sprinkle with turbinado sugar and bake. I started this tradition years ago after having made apple pie with the cheddar crust. I had leftover crust and made a few cookies. My daughter loved them and insists every year that we have them.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
Love the crust. roll out the scraps, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar as my mom did, and roll up into fat little rolls. bake along with the pie.
@heartofGlass: my sister adds no sugar to her pie filling. It's just a little too tart for me, but I put a lot less sugar into my pie than my mother did.
Do You Like Eating Pie Crust By Itself?
@Luna--you were probably pulling my vegetarian leg, but by 'Turtle Pie' I meant the 'pie' version of chocolate turtles--usually some combo of nuts, chocolate, and caramel (and sometimes cookie dough) baked in a pie shell.
@everyone--I wonder why people don't try just baking apples, no sugar in a pie crust. That is the type of pie I like--I think I may try that, just baked apple, some cinnamon and nutmeg. Pumpkin as well.
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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.