I'm new to gardening, I'm new to sustainable living, and I'm sort-of new to cooking (I've been doing it for four years now, self-taught). Really, I'm just a large novice striving to learn as many things that will benefit my family as possible. I'm acceptive of constructive criticism ("You planted your plants too close together," "That cold-frame layout may not work," "You could try adding more flour to your pie crust," "You may want to re-think using peat pots, since peat takes gazillions of years to form."). In fact, I beg you for it. I want to know what you are thinking. I'm not preaching to you, often times I'm thinking through things as I write them to learn something about myself. I'm not up on a high horse; I'm trying to learn and share.
So please, feel free to write to me and share your thoughts in the comments of this blog or in e-mail. It really helps me to come to conclusions. I try very hard to look at all sides of an issue.
And, to prove that I'm certainly not perfect and I don't think that I am, I've decided to show you the pie I made a few days ago. This poor pie was my first time at making a homemade crust, and I certainly think you can tell.
Oh boy. I think I need some practice! Aaron and I loved this delicious "healthified" pie. Here's the recipe. If you end up trying it, please let us know! I wouldn't mind having other people's opinions. I think the crust was a little too hard and difficult to cut through, but that may as well just have been my own ineptitude!
Lastly, it is my pleasure to thank Jonathan profusely for his wonderful wedding gift. Aaron and I were both stunned to receive this, largely because we never thought anyone would actually give it to us, and also because it is what I wanted more than anything from my registry. I think today I'm going to make some homemade bread with it, and tomorrow I'm making another one of those pies to take to Aaron's family's Easter party. It's so nice not to have to do it all by hand (as I don't currently have a mixer). Aaron and I were tired of whisking eggs by hand to soft or hard peaks, that's for sure!
Thank you. Thank you. Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou. As always, you swoop in with a wonderful, tasteful, and thoughtful gift.
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posted by Jen at
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3 Comments:
That pie looks delicious. I will definitely give the recipe a try. One thing I do to help with homemade pie crust is that once you have the dough spread in the pie tin, use another pie tin to press down from the top. That gets it spread more evenly around and makes it easier to have enough dough at the top to pinch the edges to make it look good.
And I'm very glad to hear the present is going to good use already!
11 April, 2008 16:17
That pie looks fantastic!
You will enjoy that mixer! We make our own bread every week with one of those and it works great.
11 April, 2008 22:15
My mom gave me a KitchenAid mixer about 20 years ago, and I love it. It keeps on going when other mixers would cough and roll over dead. Just be careful with things like cake batter, because over-beating will cause the gluten in flour to toughen the cake texture.
You reminded me that Mom also gave me some cool attachments for the mixer (like a meat grinder) that I need to find. Hmmmm...
Funny you wrote about pie crusts. I just blogged about my fear of making a homemade crust, and a couple of folks posted their recipes in the comment section.
13 April, 2008 22:05
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