Curious About Pies

I'm an amateur cook who'd like to get really good at making pies. I've opted for the immersion method: between August 2011 and August 2012, I'm making at least one pie per week. On this blog, I'll share my pie progress.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Chai Pie


One of my favorite pies so far, the Chai Cream Pie. Made for friends. It came out quite good.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Rhubarb Mania


The local farmstand keeps having awesome rhubarb. And I keep making pie. So... more rhubarb pie. This would be number four I guess. I'll probably try some non-rhubarb pies for a while after this. What can I say... it's delicious.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

More Rhubarb Pie!

My excellent neighbors took good care of our cats while we were out of town. So I made two more rhubarb pies, pretty much exactly like the previous one. Only with less burning.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Rhubarb Pie


Is this the best pie I've ever made? You can't tell by the photos... and I don't want to oversell this... but, yes.

Tamale Pie!

One of my favorite meals to cook. Savory tamale pie!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Peanut-Chocolate Pielets


An experiment: tiny pies made in a muffin pan. In this case, each has a pie crust, peanuts, a pecan-pie-like peanut-butter & corn-syrup filling, and a healthy dose of dark chocolate.

Not a complete success (as usual, I underbaked, so that the crusts were mushy and the filling gooey)... but successful enough that I'm going to keep trying.

Also, yum.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Chard Pie




A scrumptious savory pie full of chard goodness. Not difficult to make, and utterly delicious. From a Martha Stewart recipe.