Pie Week

Greg’s Chocolate Cream Pie with Swiss Meringue

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I am super sad to see Pie Week come to a close.  So sad, in fact, that you may just start seeing a pie a month around here.  Plus, we have Pi(e) Day to look forward on March 14th, so all is not lost!  As National Pie Day comes to a close, marking the end […]

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Fuji Nana’s White Chocolate, Orange, & Raspberry Pie

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Happy National Pie Day!  To celebrate today, I thought it would be appropriate to share a recipe from the woman who brought me into this world.  My mom and I made this pie, a White Chocolate, Orange, and Raspberry dream, when we were visiting for Christmas.  I have many memories of watching my mom make […]

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Lemon Icebox Pie

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I’ve been dreaming about lemon icebox pie since my first taste.  In 2003 Mr. Fuji and I ate Thanksgiving dinner with his dad’s in-laws in Jackson, Tennessee.  For dessert I ate a slice of his mother-in-law’s lemon icebox pie, a classic Southern confection made up of a buttery graham cracker crust, a tart, creamy filling […]

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Nancie McDermott’s Apple Pie

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Have you ever said something about someone and it turns out they were standing right behind you while you were saying it? I have.  On the first day of Camp Blogaway in 2012, a friend and I were standing at the networking table, which usually includes promotional materials for bloggers and brands.  There was a […]

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Mama’s Wet Bottom Shoo-Fly Pie from Liz the Chef

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Today, my sweet-as-pie friend Liz, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Liz the Chef, has joined the ranks of the Pie Brigade and is sharing her mom’s recipe for Wet Bottom Shoo-Fly Pie.  Hop on over to her site to find out what flies and wet bottoms have to do with this delicious pie […]

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Pie Week!

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American English is filled with idioms relating to pie, such as, “as American as apple pie,” and “eat humble pie,” or “cow pie.”  I guess we love our pies!  Although the historians trace the origins of pie loosely back to the galettes (free form pies) cooked over hot coals made by the ancient Egyptians during […]

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