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Blueberry Pie Demands

April 24, 2010 in baking by Moye | 1 comment

We made the most delicious blueberry pie earlier this month. It was the first official pie of the year, since I kind of took a pie break after the holidays and then things like God of War III got in the way. Not to toot my own horn–okay, fine, I will–but somehow my crust came out superb and I think I can almost make it from pure memory now. Note to self: don’t cut the butter into the pastry too much, so you can basically eat chunks of butter with blueberry deliciousness.

I guess pie is on the family brain, because today I got this email from my dad:

So now I don’t know what to do. Bake them multiple pies by Tuesday out of guilt because he really isn’t joking? Or bake one just to one up this “most probable” joke? Or bake them pies because this is my dad’s reverse psychology at work? Or just ignore this email and never pick up the phone when they call? Hmm.

Here’s what I’m going to do. Bake a pie and eat it in its entirety during the next episode of Lost.

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Weird Apple Pie

September 10, 2009 in food, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

one minute Apple pie from Sergey Yazvinsky on Vimeo.

Slashfood just posted this cute 1 minute video of how to bake an apple pie. It’s always fun to see other people (possibly from other countries, judging by the use of the metric system in the ingredient list) prepare and make classic foods. I know there are probably a thousand apple pie recipes with small differences, like cooking the apples in sugar before hand, sifting the flour or even what sort of spices you use.

This is the first time, though, that I’ve seen someone make a pie dough with softened butter. All the pie crust recipes I’ve used call for cold sliced butter (and ice water), and I always thought the temperature was important. I don’t know anything about cooking science, but I do know that cold butter leaves nice little bits of whole butter in your crust, which lets it taste flaky and yummy and fattening. I could be totally wrong, though.

Also, what a weird way to line the sides of your pie pan? Either this person never makes enough pie dough to cover the entire bottom, sides and top of the entire pie.  So wouldn’t this be more of a tart?

Am I really debating the use of the words pie and tart in a little Internet video? I need to move on with my life.

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