Superbowl Pie, Part Two

If you watched the NFL Superbowl tonight you will agree with me that it was a truly stunning football game. A Batch of Personal Sized - Banana Cream Pies (with Coconut!) came out at halftime and at the end of the game, where a small crowd had gathered in my kitchen for some prime time pies in HD.

A little game in the street, to work off some of the extra calories today! (There was plenty of other snacking going on, as is tradition! Organic Turkey Chile, Chicken Apple Beans by L.J., Hot Wings by MexiSub, Middle-Eastern-Delite by G. and flores by L-Bill) My thanks everyone for the yummy and interesting viewing this year!

Superbowl Pie, Part One

The Strawberry Rhubarb Nopal Pie

For our Superbowl this time it's the Super-berry Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie with Cornmeal crust and Nopal Cactus Liquor. I made this recipe, as I do every year and I think this one -of my rhubarb family- really turned out the best, made with organic ingredients. The Nopal Liquor of course made sense since the flavor is much like a red berry. It's a good candidate for ice cream or breakfast! I reserve some of the fruit syrup to pour on other things - so I don't cut into the pie too early. Well, I admit, we had some as soon as the blog posted.
Stay tuned, for the big sport event there will be warm personal sized banana cream pies!

Chocolate Chess Pie

On a recent winter evening I got to open a birthday present - this year my sister sent me a great pie book. Mid January is a really good time for a pie making session, I thought, and I'd do it just for the sake of the Pie Blog. The Pie Blog is how I learn and teach myself something about baking pies. But being Mid January, and on a tighter budget, I found the cupboard nearly bare, except for a minimum of ingredients. Perfect - we don't need a fancy pie right now. Then I opened up my new pie book and found this 'Angus Barn Chocolate Chess Pie', a pie from the American South (among many other delicious sounding pies I will have to experiment with when fruit season is back.) Do I have some eggs, vanilla, sugar, a little corn meal and pie pastry? Well, indeed I do. Turn the page. Do I have chocolate? (Leftovers from Christmas...yes!) MMM. One more pie, and a game of chess to go along. Apparently the game of chess has nothing to do with the name of a chess pie, but I decided to take it in a new direction for the sake of the Pie Blog. (The Chess name may come from 'pie chest' or the British Cheese pie perhaps, said with a southern hospitable accent...'cheesss' but this pie contains no cheese today at least.) I'm enjoying experiments and games all at once while learning about chess pies.



The Angus Barn name comes from a restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina. I think of paintings of the eastern light and countryside out there, horse country. I would love to visit again - hope they don't mind (as I so had no problem adding something) a light splash of Mexican Coffee Liquor and calling it 'done'.
* note: Personal Size Pies is the coming trend according to my 'associate' so I made one and photographed it. It went quicker than I could write about it.
Before the main baking event, the pie crust sank in pre-baking but I went with it. Glad I didn't get worried about it, because my Chess Pie turned into a brownie-cookie-light flaky- crust Pizza, all organic with free trade chocolate and delicious. Now being served - thanks to some new tools I received from friends and family this year. Yum!

Sweet and Savory

This Sweet Potato Pie was not overly sweet and very yummy with a hint of fresh ginger and mint. We just ate it after some buffalo burgers and green beans, a non-occasion winter dinner at home! Sweet potatoes are some of the most comfort-foody staples I can think of...this may have been the most basic but perfectly tasting pie of 2007.

Thanksgiving is ON!

The Carrots and Ginger Crew is here and we have completed a total of 4 pies. My sister called in a 'Drunken Turtle Pecan Pie', too. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

The Pie Throw Down

So, Bobby Flay is trying this Pie Mother's Mixed Berry Pie in one of his 'Throw Down' Episodes. The Pie Mother asks him, "How is it?" and he answers, "Delicious."
She then asks him,"Would you get up in the night to eat it?"
Bobby answers, "Absolutely!"
"See, that's the true test. If you get up in the night to eat it."

Our Annual Pumpkin Smash

Once again, October is here and it's time to celebrate a bunch of things. Eventful as usual. Here's the first Pumpkin Pie of the Season! We always have a party in October, time to get crazy with those melding pumpkin heads...