3 posts tagged “pie”
Seriously. I decided that I was going to just keep making pies until I got it perfect. It's not that I really even like pie, or that I have some special reason to make pies. It's just that I did something, didn't do it as well as I wanted, and now I'm going to keep doing it until I get the results I want. This is the same flaw in my character that has kept me in community college for the past 6 years. I think yesterday I got pretty close to success with double crust pie ; thankfully school starts tomorrow and I'll have something else to keep me busy. Over the winter break, I've read I don't know how many books, wasted hours with the Wii, and spent way too much time in the kitchen. Tomorrow I get to start the last algebra class I will ever have to take, and I won't wonder what I'm supposed to do with my days off. Anyway, here's my peach pie.
This time I took some advice and separated the crust dough into two Ziploc baggies before I put it into the fridge, and then I cut the up the sides of the bags and rolled the dough out while it was still in it. Came out well enough that I was able to crimp the edges and had a little dough left ever to make it cute. Now I'm gonna go eat some more of it, cause it was really yummu.
For those of you who read my posting below, I just wanted to let you know that even though the top of my pie was very ugly, the inside was perfect and the bottom crust held together wonderfully. I'm considering it a job well done.
1) After realizing that you are fed up with making dough with a fork, go to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to purchase a pastry cutter. Find cute pink one, which happens to be the only one in the entire store. Lament the fact that nobody makes their own pie crust anymore. While there, try not to spend all of your money.
2) Gather ingredients, especially apples.
3) Find yourself an assistant.
4) Prepare crust. At this point, you should have consulted at least six recipes, trying in vain to figure out which one is the best. Settle on Joy of Cooking recipe. Hope for best. Put your mixing bowl, butter, and shortening in the freezer; even though you're not sure why, that's what the everyone says to do.
5) Roll out crust. Realize that you didn't flour the bottom of your dough well enough and that it is stuck to the counter. Try to improvise by using dental floss to scrape it from said counter. Hope that you don't end up with mint flavored pie. When that brilliant idea fails, roll the dough back up and decide to use another tactic. Think for a few minutes, and then decide to roll it out again, but this time in plastic wrap. Marvel at your own ingeniousness. Somehow lose bottom of rolling pin.
6) Once pie is assembled, weep at its hideousness. Consider going to store to buy pie crust.
7) Try to find assistant that was scared out of the room during the "stuck pastry" incident. Fire assistant for sleeping on the job.
8) Put pie in oven. Turn around and look at the AWFUL MESS YOU HAVE MADE.
9) Take pie out of oven. Chase boyfriend out of kitchen with rolling pin when he remarks that there are villagers with torches standing outside of the apartment, looking for your pie. Weep again. Try to enjoy the rest of your day off and try to think about how much fin you'll have tonight.
