Pie #1: Fancy Sweet Potato Pie and Naming Contest
I did it. I took the plunge and made the first pie in this experiment. It was hard to choose (and impossible to get consensus) so I picked a pie I’ve always wanted to make; sweet potato pie. Since I’m a Yankee, all things Southern hold extra appeal for me, particularly Southern food. I tried a slice of overprocessed sweet potato pie at a restaurant once and liked it well enough to know that a homemade, from scratch version would be much, much better.
I made the crust with butter and shortening (no lard at Food Lion; the search continues) and it was flaky enough. I made chantilly cream to go on top and the whole mess tasted like heaven to me. The girl was happy; she likes pumpkin pie and this is very similar. The husband gave it a “meh” and the boy refused to even try it.
You guys have been great though, helping me on my quest for the lard and providing pie advice. Also; Patience, what the heck is a hog maw? No, never mind, I don’t really want to know. So I’m thinking about pie-blogging. Maybe on a different blog, maybe here, nevertheless it needs a name. Some thought starters:
- The Pie Chart
- Pie Nation
- Pie’d: A Journey in Crust
I have a feeling you’re much better at this. How about a contest? The Best Pie Blog Name suggestion will win a $10 Starbucks gift card. Contest ends at 10 a.m. Eastern, Wednesday, May 7. Leave your ideas in the comments and I’ll post the winner.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
What about “Life of Pie”? Get it?
Kinda ironic, coming from an Indian… oh, I crack myself up!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
how about
‘Pie! Its not just for smacking you in the face!’
or some Piehole reference cause I feelin a little sassy and snippy today..
May 6th, 2008 at 8:56 am
The first thing that came to mind was Piety, Schmiety! Because it has the Pie, it has the “eat” sound, and then there’s the Schmiety.
Okay. I’ll keep thinking.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am
i really like “the pie chart”.
or –
pie, it does a body good
pie-ous intentions
eat my pie! (too raunchy?)
i’ll keep thinking (i REALLY love pie)
May 6th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Well, I can’t top “Life of Pi.”
But I think it’s my job as resident blog pervert to offer something inappropriate like:
“Lick the beater.”
or…
“Crimp My Pie”
or…
“The Pied Papers.”
or….
“Meringue Harrange”
or…
“The Rolling Pen”
or…
“Mama’s Whiskers” (Think about it)
or
“A Little Slice of Heaven.”
I’ll drink more coffee and see if I can do a little better.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
All I’ve got is Pie or Bust. I suck at these types of things!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Just got my copy of Pie and I’m off to BB&B to procure baking items, because that’s just how feeble I am. I can’t believe you started with a sweet potato pie. He explicitly says to start with a fruit pie!!!
I don’t know what I’m going to start with but I’m buying a cherry pitter just in case.
No ideas for the blog, but good luck with it. Although, maybe something from Waitress? Pie with a Heart in the Middle? Gonna Bake a Pie? Pie from Heaven Above?
The sweet potato pie looks great and is one of my favorites. I’ve pretty much never met a pie I didn’t like, but I have to say the first pie in the book is rhubarb which pretty much put the kibosh on my idea to try every recipe in the book…
May 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
How did everyone miss “Pie in the Sky”?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Ooh! I’m liking The Pied Papers!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:26 am
The “Pied” Piper
You can even use a quote from The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Robert Browning).
“Families by tens and dozens,
Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives —
Followed the (”pied”) Piper for their lives.
From street to street (s)he piped, advancing,
And step for step, they followed, dancing”…
….for their pie!
May 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am
A slice of Life
May 7th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I really stink at this. How about “Apple of my Pie”.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
American Pie? as in Bye Bye Miss…
May 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I like “Pie in the sky” or “Pie in your eye”? Nellies Bakery
Your pie looks great and I like Sweet Potato Pie it taste like pumpkin pie to me.
Don’t make your Dad a Cherry Pie, he will tell you the story.
Try apple pie with the thickened cherry juice (the kind that comes in the can of cherries) it was wonderful.
Here is a new one for you to try. This was given to me by my mother-in-law many years ago and I still use it. Sounds weird but its VERY good.
Pie Crust
2 c flour-1 c Crisco - 1/2 tsp salt - 1/4c water - 11/2 tsp white vinger -1 egg. Mix the first 3 ingr. then in another bowl mix the last 3 together then mix them together.