Posted on 12/01/2022 5:47:45 AM PST by Red Badger
NATIONAL PIE DAY
Each year on December 1st, dessert lovers across the United States enjoy a slice of their favorite on National Pie Day. Pie is so delicious we celebrate it twice a year. The more popular date is January 23rd.
#NationalPieDay
While it might be the lesser of the two celebrated PIE days (don’t forget National Pi Day on March 14th), it happens to fall smack dab in the middle of a major pie-making season.
Take away ice cream as a dessert choice, and most people are either cake people or pie people. Or, to put it another way, most people have cake or pie with their ice cream! The day combines our bumper fruit crops with a booming holiday season full of baked goods, cool weather, and rosy-cheeked children. It’s definitely time to tie on those apron strings and get baking.
Of course, we make more than fruit pies! Savory pot pies provide comfort on a cold winter’s day and the satisfaction a family cook needs when caring for a family.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PIE DAY
Bake up your favorite pie or enjoy some leftover slices from the holidays. Visit the National Day Calendar® Recipe pages to discover some delicious pie-making.
We also offer some others, too. When it comes to pie, or any food really, it is best enjoyed with others. Invite someone over for your best pie and coffee. Maybe there’s a friend you haven’t seen for a while. Pie starts conversations, and they’re a great way to #CelebrateEveryDay too!
Recipe links at site:
Pecan Pie
Blueberry Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Use #NationalPieDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL PIE DAY HISTORY
National Day Calendar ® continues researching the origins of the 2nd Pie Day.
Pie FAQ
Q. Can I serve pie all year long?
A. Yes! Pie is one of those dishes that can be served any time of year.
Q. Do I have to slice a pie in wedges, or can I treat it like a pizza and slice it in squares?
A. Slicing a pie into wedges allows you to serve every element of the pie in equal portions. And it’s not a pizza.
Q. How many pie days are in December?
A. We celebrate two pie days in December: National Pie Day and National Pumpkin Pie Day.
Q. Should a pie be served hot or cold?
A. Most pies are best served warm. However, some exceptions remain.
Love it. I love Maine. I could live there, but probably only up North. Too many Lefties from Belfast on down.
Last time we were in Belfast, my wife went shopping, and I took a folding chair and a book, when down to the park near the water, and sat there for a few hours reading my book.
I was at least 10-15 feet on the grass away from the walkway, and two Karens castigated me for not wearing a mask! Then, when my wife called me to pick her up, as I was packing my chair, I had some bearded dipstick with his wife come at me for owning a Subaru instead of an American car.
I was so dumbfounded, I couldn't speak. My pat response whenever I get that is that I will be damned if I spend a single penny that might go to the American automobile unions, who give huge sums of money to elect people who hate both me and the country I love, but I think I just stood there with my mouth open.
They have this sign in town, which didn't surprise me at all: 
In Maine, they have Ranked Choice Voting, and lots of Leftists. Far north, where we were staying during the "pandemic", nobody wore masks back then, and there were Trump signs and flags. If I ever move up there, I will go as far north as I can.
LOL, I am surprised my wife even lets me make the ones I do.
She would likely say “Pork lard? Go right ahead. I’ll just delay the call to the EMT long enough to make sure you don’t recover.”
Heh, of COURSE she wouldn’t say that, but...her being an RN, and very knowledgable about all manner of plants including ones that can kill you, occasionally calmly tells me that “she will make me a nice cup of herbal tea”...:)
Sil made a delish spinach onion mushroom and feta pie in puff pastry for Thanksgiving
Crisco is what clogs arteries
Rhubarb/Strawberry...yummers.
My cardiologist says stay away from Bread, PASTA AND CAKES...............
It’s pretty much effortless to grow it.
It looks like red celery to me.................
From Wiki:
It needs rainfall and an annual cold period of up to 7-9 weeks at 3°C (37°F), known as ‘cold units’, to grow well.
That must be why we don’t see it much in FLORIDA..............😉
Lard vs. butter...fat is fat (crisco is different) but lard and butter are both animal fats so basically the same. Crisco - hydrogenated vegetable oil so not the same thing nutritionally. Personally, I think butter and lard (real animal fat) is better for a person, but that's another topic.
If you ever do decide to add some lard make sure it's leaf lard (the fat from around the kidneys of the pig/hog) not just any lard. Big difference in texture, feel, and flavor. Just my two cents.
That looks delicious. Such a nice, golden crust.
Spent many a summer evening walking the farmland or on the ground looking up at the heavens close enough to touch. Fireflies, millions of fireflies. How sad we don't see those too often any longer. Looking at the expanse above makes one feel connected, finding ourselves to be a small piece of the huge puzzle.
I remember some cold (and certainly wet) weather in Homestead. Lots of ag, down there. They do a lot of breeding of plants for different climates.
You can grow it covered, to keep it light and tender. They do that a lot in covered greenhouses.
I sent you a link via Freepmail...I thought you might find it pleasant, as you seem to have that same type of connection to a place.
The stalks are edible (when leavened by pounds of sugar), but the leaves are poisonous due to a high Oxalic acid content.
In case you are ever invited for tea by Mrs. rlmorel
Yum!
Hahahaha...I only worry when her voice gets icy calm and quiet and she says “That’s fine. You have to sleep sometime.”
I loove good pie! Confession here, I can even eat lousy pie if I can heat it up and have a glass of milk with it, or a lump of ice cream on top.
I will say-one pie I am very blase about is Pumpkin Pie. I enjoy a single forkfull, and that is about it. I had some this past Thanksgiving, and it was...er...squishy and soft. I can enjoy it if it is quite firm.
Mince pie my favorite……..awesome.
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