Yesterday was a pie revelation to me. I find out that Heather Fraelick makes pies out of roots. Rhubarb is a root, right?
Rhubarb- A root, right?
And I discovered the key to making a pecan pie just the right sweetness at Author Jane Ward’s Food and Fiction Blog check here for her recipe
Author Jane Ward's Pecan Pie
It’s all about the pies baby!
These two FOBs (friends of the blog) have inspired the first annual Pie Poll.
*especially relevant around the holidays don’t you think?
Vote for your favorite type of pie-
Feel free to add in a pie that I may have missed on our poll and comment in the comment section of this post as to who makes or where you get your favorite pies.
Alicia
blackswanbeth
Joanne
Marty Luster
Craig Kimberley
David B. Cox
Donna Ardizzoni
Ed Collard
Sharon
Vickie & Peter
Fr Matthew Green
patrickr
Paul Morrison & RD
S.D. Kelly
Thom Falzarano
Rhubarb pie uses the leaf stem, not the root, for the pie. This is a tough poll because there are so many. This time of year would be the pumpkin and apple pie, in the middle of the summer the key lime and the banana cream pie move to the top.
You forgot buttermilk pie but it’s only awesome south of the Mason Dixon line.
Back home we have Shoe-Fly Pie….
PIE’S SUCK! Give me a good cookie anytime!
I have an elderly neighbor that makes the best strawberry/rhubarb pies every year and since her family doesn’t like rhubarb, I get them all!! But really, is there any such thing as a bad pie? I love them all.
I’m a huge fan of pie as well.
I like my rhubarb without the strawberries. I also prefer it topped with a crumbled oatmeal single crust… I guess I really prefer rhubarb crisp. So that means I should have voted for peach…. This is confusing.
Finally a vote for Whoopie Pie!
Technically, a Whoopie Pie is not a Pie. It’s a cake.
from Dictionary.com;
Main Entry: whoopie pie
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a confection of two small and flat chocolate cakes with cream frosting in the middle; also called whoopee pie, black-and-white
Example: Maine and Massachusetts are famous for whoopie pies.
Etymology: 1931
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whoopie+pie
What part of them referencing them as pies three times in the definition makes you think they’re not pies?
What about cow pies?
Then there are the add-ons. Apple Pie needs something but do you put vanilla ice cream, a dab of whipped cream or a slice of cheese on your apple pie? I like my cheese in a sandwich with some ham and whipped cream is for pumpkin chiffon pie. Apple pie without vanilla ice cream is a hook with no bait.
I love all pie but on Thanksgiving it was always pumpkin, apple, and mince meat pie. I never have made it to the mince meat.
My favorite has always been either rhubarb (and I agree, leave the strawberries out of it) or blueberry, both made by my grandmother. Unfortunately, she never wrote down her pies or pie crust recipe and I haven’t found one which comes close yet. Every Sunday, she would have two fresh pies made and ready by the time I finished the Sunday paper route and I would get the first slice out of one of them. Funny thing is my dad and I would then visit my other grandparents across town and they always fed me ice cream. For the longest time, I never knew people put ice cream ON pie!
“Pie … it really helps heal.” – Julia Child. (or it might have been Kevin James in “Mall Cops.”) Like me a good chocolate cream pie any day.
Pumpkin! then my ~ apple pumpkin (juice from apple pie on top shelf
in oven spilled down into the pumpkin ~ It was delicious ~ hard to duplicate ~ hugs and
namaste, Carol
Oh, Carol, I had a similar thing happen when a pecan pie bubbled over onto an apple pie! It was out of this world, wish I could do it again!
Rhubarb has roots but the part you eat is the stem. Both the roots and leaves are toxic.
My dad used to quote my Danish-born grandmother: “A pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.” Has anyone heard that saying before?
Dave Ryan’s Cape Ann Pies – Chocolate covered pecan pie is to DIE FOR!!!!!
I have to vote for HUMBLE PIE! I’ve had to eat a lot of that lately!
I make a killer cranberry blueberry pie with all local berries when it’s a good growing year- major yum!