Celebrating The Pie

I had a peach and grape tarte today. It was sooooooo good! Not a pie but I had to post it somewhere!

 

I have 4 pies ordered now to pick up on Friday for my Saturday dinner party....2 blueberry.....1 peach.....1 cherry.......I am sharing 3 of them with my dinner guests and keeping one blueberry here for myself.

It will be pie weekend here......LOL

 

photo of one of the blueberry pies picked up today....right out of the oven at pick up and still warm here...back to home....an hour trip.....sampled by mainly Stan and I had a little....wow...it is loaded with blueberries.....pies in fridge now. I think they will be better cold....but have to say.....even warm, it was still out of this world....!

and kudos to this place for wanting know time of pick up, as they are right out of the oven and they are not lieing when they say fresh.....

 

I just finished a mini chocolate cream pie from Wegmans. It was good.

 

Did not like the peach pie much.........
my new favorite is the cherry....I don't want any other kind from them now.

 

Thread is making me hungry! Blueberry cheesecake is pretty good.

 

But does every bakery in America sell hot individual meat pies like Australia does?The quality is variable to say the least......

 

I don't remember every bakery making meat pies. Depended on the bakery. Bread? No chance, but pastry on the other hand...
The best pie shops in Aus to me were Jindabine and Braidwood. They're on the way to the snow and the coast. Half way stops. Best. Ever. Though I remember being disappointed when travelling at Easter and mum wouldn't let us have meat. I also remember the first time I drove in my own car and ate that meat pie and sausage roll on good Friday.

 

I don't know. i only have had them as a child when my parents would buy the frozen ones.....and they were pretty good, as I remember....and I do know that groceries carry them in the frozen sections here..................and I would think that making your own would be wonderful...only, I am not an expert at wonderful pie crust....I never tried to make pie crust....could be a reason I am not an expert.....

 

I will be going back to the pie place at some point before the end of the season to buy 2 cherry pies, 1 blueberry..... and to try their pumpkin pie when it is time.......

 

If I ever get to NY would you like me some lessons in making pies? I used to be a chef.

 

Went by the pie place and they just happened to have a cherry pie right out of the oven....friend came over last night and Stan and she ate almost half the pie already. My piece of pie was bird sized last night, but I might make up for it later....lolololol...

This is what is left of it as of now. best cherry pie ever....

next time I go there will be in Nov for a pumpkin pie or two for thanksgiving...they are seasonal from July 4th to Thanksgiving. they told me to put in order for pumpkin a month in advance....wow....

 

are you coming here to my kitchen? LOL

 

Only if you want. I have not made any definite plans on travelling yet.

 

[SIZE=10pt]Traditionally Fall in my mind has always been Pie Season with apple picking well underway and the local farms dotted with pumpkin patches [/SIZE]



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Where did you learn your cooking skills from and where did you chef?

 

I went to Slough Polytechnic in the UK where I grew up for two years full time. Like many other chefs I moved around a bit.I have not been full time chef for ten years. Hospitality is not an occupation I recommend anyone get into.
BTW do you have a decent rolling pin IE one that roller bearings and metal pie tins? I don't like ceramic ones as they do not cook evenly.

 

Oh, wonderful....I have an old fashioned wood with red handles rolling pin from my grandmother that my mother used...but I don't think I have....

Pie tins? no....just a pie pyrex glass one.....

 

After 3 pages I seriously cant be the ONLY one who likes cream pie.... right?