I’ve been really into pie lately. I borrowed a book from my mother– gosh, it must’ve been almost a year ago– but hadn’t really done anything with it until Mother’s Day weekend, when I “baked” a coconut cream pie for her in celebration of her federally designated day. I have to admit I was a little bit afraid. Pie crusts are serious business, after all.
I’m not sure whether it’s all the time I’ve spent watching Alton Brown on TV or some sort of natural talent, but it really didn’t seem all that difficult. Really, you just have to kind of know what a decent dough feels like and how not to overwork the fat into the flour.
Anyway, the recipes from the aforementioned book have been fantastic. One of the reviews on Amazon suggests that the book itself is great as a recipe book but contains substandard advice on technique and is somewhat short on more traditional recipes. There’s definitely some truth to that; I was looking for an apple pie recipe for my family’s Memorial Day thing and couldn’t find a plain old normal version. What I wound up with was a brown sugar apple pie, and it was delicious.
I took pictures, because I’m a dork like that. When I’m home for lunch today, I’ll see what I can do about showing them off. The pie was tasty, but it looked even tastier than it tasted. It looked almost, and playing games online I don’t use this word lightly, professional.
