Growing up, pie was my least favorite desert. Probably because my dad, who suffers from adult picky eater disorder, always liked my genius of a baker mother to just make pies with
store bought filling (the horror!). But then a few years ago someone gave her a pie recipe book and I flipped through it over Christmas. For some reason I thought it would be cool to make a different pie every week for a year. So I did. Yeah, I'm that cool. Thankfully at the time I had five roommates (half of which were boys) so I didn't gain any extra weight that year. But it was super fun experimenting with weird ingredients and learning about thickening agents and
perfect crusts. I have so many lovely memories of pie making now--like collecting
salmonberries in an old growth forest in Vancouver with good friend, experimenting with
pineapple pie filling on a date, or surprising a loved one with a
cup pie to take for lunch.
During that times pies suddenly became super popular. Not unlike cupcakes and woopie pies (totally overrated in my opinion). One of my all-time favorite shows was on the air--
Pushing Daisies was about a really hot pie-maker. And then the charming movie,
Waitress, came out. And I was even more inspired.
Here are some of my favorites:
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