I bake these...from scratch. This is an apple-cherry pie...:)
Posted on 02/08/2011 4:29:13 PM PST by DemforBush
Attempting to name the nation's best pies is like arm wrestling a bear: It's a losing proposition. But finding uniquely unforgettable pies, now that's something we can really sink our teeth into. To kick off National Pie Month, hop aboard the Pie Express for a trip around the country...
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“Have you ever considered the benefits of an all cheese diet? :)”
As long as I get to have smoked gouda at least once a day, and don’t have to eat bleu cheese more than once a week, I’m in! :-)
Rhubarb pie and vanilla ice cream - yum!
Also strawberry-rhubarb pie.
I bake these...from scratch. This is an apple-cherry pie...:)
See my #6....strawberry-rhubarb pie is anathema!
MMmmmmmMMMMmmmmmmmmmbacon! OK. It’s going to be an all cheese and bacon diet for me from now on. As soon as my wife agrees, I AM SO THERE!
There really aren’t any foods in the world that I like better than cheese and bacon. Though the bacon must be cooked properly. None of that icky restaurant bacon where it’s flabby and undercooked in some places and burnt in others. It’s got to be slow cooked and crispy from one end to the other. MmmmmmmMMMMmmmmmbacon!
I can see me now walking into a restaurant with the Blues Brothers. “Bring us four fried chickens, a loaf of dry white toast, thirty strips of slow cooked well-done bacon, two pounds of your best sharp cheddar sippin’ cheese, and a Coke. Please.”
Yeah I saw that, but I still like it. More for me. LOL!
You now have to post the recipe (please?). Curious bakers need to know these things.
mmmm turkey pie......
How about baby bel cheese wrapped in bacon?
That sounds great to me.
Oh yeah, a good smoked gouda is awesome. Whenever I visit kin in Ohio we always drive down to Amish country and visit Heini's Cheese Chalet, and smoked gouda is one of the ones I nearly always get.
Now there is the secret to a great pie...the lard crust.
I still make them that way!
I hate to use the prepared rolled ones, but that is what you get here if you don’t want my special crust.
I have made good cookie crumb crusts but never a good graham cracker one. I just don’t like the texture or taste.
I love buttermilk pie. I would love the recipe, too. Please?
My best recipes have come from FReeper FRiends.
Link to Fr weekly cooking thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2669049/posts
A very odd pie, but quite delicious, is a cantaloupe custard. Oddly enough, the cantaloupe flavor contrasts the sweetness, sort of like putting a little vinegar in brownies, and makes the custard taste much, much better. It is an easy pie to overindulge.
Alternatively, a mango custard pie.
It’s important to distinguish between a Key Lime pie and a sweet lime pie. Key Limes are about the size of golf balls, tart and rather bitter, which is a shock if you are expecting a sweet lime pie, which is like a lemon pie in character.
For some excitement, try a simple Mandarin Orange Pie:
1 pt. sour cream
1/3 c. sugar
1 can mandarin orange segments, drained and blotted on paper towel
1 graham pie crust
Bake in a 350 oven for 15 minutes, then cool and chill.
And don’t forget the Meringue! Back in the 1960s, a pie without meringue just wasn’t a pie.
Mawmaw’s Buttermilk Pie
2 sticks melted butter
3 3/4 c sugar
1/2 c flour
6 eggs
1 c buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
Sift sugar and flour together, add other ingredients. Pour into two unbaked pie shells. Bake on bottom rack of oven at 350 for one hour.
Please feel free to knock my socks off. I’d love to have the recipe!
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