Ah, the humble pie. Whether it’s a free-form galette, a double-crust slab, or a lattice-topped number, pies always maintain an air of rustic charm. But if you’re getting more comfortable with pie dough and are itching to try out something new, we’ve got your covered. Here are five pretty and unique ways to make your pie crust stand out.
Most nice Jewish girls coming of age dream of poufy dresses and big parties. I wanted neither. Not a fancy frock, not a blowout bat mitzvah — not even cupcakes. I dreamed of getting a Cuisinart, and I spent hours deciding exactly which model I wanted in lieu of a party.
We’re going to guess that you don’t really need a reason to make a delicious pie, but just in case you do, we think celebrating Pi Day — March 14, or 3.14 — is as good a reason as any.
And to tempt you into celebrating this mathematician’s holiday, allow us to offer up 20 of our favorite pie recipes.
School lunches varied for me growing up. It generally ran the gamut of stereotypical American school-age lunches: Lunchables, Chef Boyardee Beefaroni, sandwiches, Hot Pockets, the occasional lunch provided by the school, and leftovers. Even when I was in elementary school, I think my favorite lunch was leftovers of the previous night’s dinner (yes, even more so than Pizza Friday).
There’s more to microwaving than piling food on a plate and pushing start. Microwaves are not just for reheating leftovers and boiling water; they can actually be a super-helpful (and healthy) tool for quick and efficient cooking — as long as they’re used properly.
One of the issues I had when living on the East Coast was that good Mexican food was harder to find. That meant that every trip home to San Francisco involved burritos, enchiladas, and piles of street tacos. Even now that I’m back out West, Mexican is still one of my favorite cuisines and something I can gladly eat for lunch almost every day!
I’ve been without a microwave for the majority of my adult life, but when we moved into our current apartment a couple years ago, there was already one installed into the kitchen. While I was a bit put-off by it (I’d been a proud, anti-microwaving human after all!), my now-fiancé was elated — because as far as he was concerned, he could finally reheat food the easy way again.
Definitely one of the best things about having a 6.5 year old is that he now has classmates that can bestow upon us The Annual Gift of the Thin Mint Cookies. If there were any other Girl Scout Cookies worth celebrating, I knew nothing about them until pickup earlier this week when I saw other parents scurrying off with boxes of curiosities like Samoas and Tagalongs and launched a full investigation. Seriously, why did nobody tell me about those crispy chewy rings of caramel, coconut and stripes of chocolate? Was there always a cookie with both peanut butter and chocolate in it or is this some millennium baby voodoo? Making up for time lost to Thin Mint blinders begins here and now.
The other awesome thing about elementary school kids is genuine excitement over math-y holidays such as this coming Monday’s Pi(e) Day, something that I previously only celebrated sarcastically, because I was a terrible person with a life bereft of wide-eyed wonder. Thus, when I spied a Tagalongs-style peanut butter pie on Tasting Table this week and realized that it was easy enough that I could pull it off in my current sleep-deprived fugue while also filing the vast peanut butter pie-shaped hole in the archives, it was a done deal.
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My mom’s hand mixer has been around for as long as I can remember, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve called it Wally (I had a crush on the older Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver). Growing up, if Wally was on the kitchen counter, it meant Mom was preparing something delicious. And since Wally had two metal beaters, I was usually able to lick one if I played my cards right.
Smoothies are one of our favorite breakfast options year-round, but especially in the winter because it’s an easy way to brighten the mornings by adding extra fruit to our diets. And since frozen fruit works just as well (if not better — hello, icy, creamy texture), there’s no worry about whether it’s in season.
If you’re stuck in the doldrums of gray days, try these tropical smoothies. It won’t be quite like you’re relaxing on a white-sand beach, but it’ll be closer to it than your normal bowl of oatmeal.
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