Tag: pie

The Reamer, the Pitter, the Egg-Separator

This past weekend I found myself puttering around the kitchen again.  I had purchased 2lbs. of Bing Cherries the previous weekend and I needed to do something with them before they went bad.  So, I decided to make a cherry pie. But this isn’t really about the pie.  It’s about the tools I used to

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Pie is My Favorite

I love pie.  I love fruit pies, cream pies, savory pies.  Basically serve anything in a light, flaky crust – whether for breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner or dessert – and I’m done for.  I think Rose Levy Beranbaum said it best in her cookbook, “The Pie and Pastry Bible”: There are two kinds of people:

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