3 posts tagged “pie”

Really, what is the difference between an apple pie and an apple crisp? Is it really just that an apple pie has a crust and an apple crisp has a crumble?

Curious.

In ANY case– I finally got around to making apple pie late last month (okay, it was an apple crisp, but it’s almost the same thing). You can find the recipe here at PineappleBread.

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You may have noticed that I've been writing and posting more on PineappleBread as of late. I was planning to migrate completely over to wordpress, but I'm awfully fond of Vox, and so I've been simultaneously posting on both. But I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

In light of the fact that my last blueberry pie was so enthusiastically devoured by my coworkers, I decided to bake a new pie. This time, the crust took only about half an hour to make, which was nice. The dough came together pretty well, and I had less trouble rolling it out. However, I had a lot of dough leftover, so next time I plan to make a thicker dough for both the base and for the top crust. Perhaps I'll try baking it slightly beforehand as well.

Blueberry Pie Blueberry

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The time I made my first blueberry pie, I bought the blueberries from Trader Joe's. They were wild and organic. This time, I found bags of blueberries on sale at my local supermarket. This time, they were non-wild and non-organic (I do like to stick with organic foods, but unfortunately with my current salary, it is probably most wise for me to be frugal where possible). The surprising thing to me was the size of the berries. Call me ignorant, perhaps, but I was a bit startled at the difference between organic and conventional berry size.

Starry Starry Pie

Nevertheless, I continued making my pie. And this pie is dedicated to my cousin, Ruby, because today is her birthday! To my oldest friend (she is one of the few people of whom I can truly say I have known my entire life) Happy birthday dear girl, and I hope all your wishes come true. Haha, is that too sappy?

Slice a la Pie

Blueberry Muffins

I also made blueberry muffins for my friends Caroline and Anna when I went to visit them at their work at Georgetown University. It was the week of spring break at the school where my lab is, and I took three extra days off from the two allotted to staff members so that I could have the full week off.

The muffins were made from a mix I had picked up on sale from the supermarket a long time ago, and while there was nothing wrong with the muffins, I did realize while making them the difference between making desserts from scratch and from a box mix; there is a distinct aroma from the muffin mix that was so surprisingly ...commercial. I could not pinpoint it directly, but I have decided that all of my future endeavors in the baking realm shall be from scratch. At least, all the ones that I can help, anyway.

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In other news, I recently cut my hair.

Short and sweet

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My hair hasn't been this short since I was five, and it's a welcome change. Now the only problem is to figure out how I'm going to tie it up for when I need it out of my face...

Do you ever wonder what a lifetime of science and math and computer science can do to the brain of a *relatively* sane person? Well, for one thing, one develops is an ingrained love of all things dorky, obscure, and just plain weird. Me to a tee. And of course, when things tasty come around, I can't help but pounce upon them, especially when it combines the wacky with the oh-so-cool and tasty.

Hold up. What I'm trying to say is.... Remember trigonometry? Circles with their radii, tangents, and diameters? What about irrational numbers? Yea, it's all coming back now, isn't it? I'm talking about Pi (π), that mysterious number that is a mathematical constant and has children all over the world competing to memorize as many of its characters as possible (My brother could remember up to fifty-two-- 52!-- of them).

So, what does pi have to do with a food blog? Pi(e) Day, of course! Since March 14 is also written as 3.14, and 3.14 are the first few numbers used when calculating all the circles and all their related parts. It is a great, mathematical holiday during which dorks and geeks and dweebs alike all band together to partake in the great consumption of round, sweet pastries!

In previous years, I would just buy a slice of pie or buy a McD's apple pie (two-for-a-buck deal) to commemorate the unofficial holiday.This year, however, I wanted to do something different.

I made my own PIE!

Lynne, my lab's grad student, and I, being the bakers and foodies that we are, decided to celebrate our insanity (and yes, everyone in our lab is quite insane, especially since we remain working there) and giddiness for the excuse to eat pie by bringing some in on the Pie Day. And so on Friday, we did.

I made the pie on Wednesday because I had too many things going on Thursday.

Pie Crust

To start off with, I made my own crust (recipe taken from Williams-Sonoma)! I took over the dining room table, and my father proceeded to laugh at my silliness (since the table was literally completely covered in bits of dough and flour. It was a pain in the butt to make, although I suppose it was worth it in the end. It did taste pretty doggone yummy.

Blueberry Jungle

Prebaked

A dough-lined pie pan filled with well-mixed blueberries topped with mini-dollops of butter.

Waiting for oventime

Once it was capped, sealed, we could BAKE!

Steaming, delicious blueberry PI(E)

And here it is! Happy PI(e) DAY, everyone~!!! (Maybe just a leeettle bit belated at this point, heh heh.)

And lastly, I took the extra pie crust and made "cookies" out of them. See?

Starry starry night