Saturday, June 29, 2013

Mmmmm...pie

Rachael from pizzarossa was our lovely June 2013 Daring Bakers’ host and she had us whipping up delicious pies in our kitchens! Cream pies, fruit pies, chocolate pies, even crack pies! There’s nothing like pie!

So, when your CSA gives you tons and tons of strawberries, and you have 4 pounds of so-so blueberries, what do you do? Make a pie with neither of those things! FAR TOO LOGICAL.

To be fair, I wanted to use them, but I sort of decided to bake spontaneously last Sunday morning because I couldn't sleep, and commenced baking at 4am. Which, on a side note: baking on very little sleep very early in the morning isn't perhaps the wisest idea. But it's still better than mountain biking while in the same state (which I sort of also did). But anyway...

I decided to make a Crack Pie (I knew that rolling out a crust would be utterly beyond me that early) and the Crack Pie had a cookie crust which was within my realm of cognitive function (mostly) for that time of the day. So then the stupid oven chose to run hot for the first round (baking the cookie crust), and then cool for the actual pie, and I was just too damned tired to notice. Thankfully, the recipe forgave me mostly - the filling was a trifle under-cooked, which is miraculous given that I also kept forgetting how long I'd had the damned thing in the oven, so I'm lucky I didn't burn the house down. Enjoy the photo below with the arbitrary and random chicken.