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Got Corn?

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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Here’s a nice little Throwback Thursday post for you. At this time of year, you shouldn’t have a hard time coming across corn (if you do, where are you living?!) I bought it for 30 cents an ear in New Jersey last week, gotta love the Garden State summertime produce. I was also buying boatloads of blueberries…$6 for a 6-package flat? Well, I didn’t want to lose money, and there were pies to be made. But that’s a story for another time.

For now I just wanted to share with you a recipe I’ve been reminiscing about: Ken Haedrich’s Savory Corn Pudding Pie. I do hope you’ve been keeping up with my friend Ken at thepieacademy.com, he’s much better at keeping his blog up-to-date than I and I’m really eager to try some of the new things he’s been posting about, like slab pie.

Without further ado, here’s the link to the Savory Corn Pudding Pie that Ken shared about a year ago. I tried it then, and it’s just about the tastiest thing you can do with an abundance of summer corn. If I had to put my finger on why, I might say the mustard is the trick. I’m a huge sucker for mustard in recipes. But then there’s also the yumminess from the green chilies and the way the cheesy filling gets a little brown on top…*sigh* I guess you’ll just have to try it yourself. Let me know what you think the secret is.

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A Christmas Milestone

15 Friday Feb 2013

Posted by in Dried Fruit Pie, Nut Pie

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Pie 100! I put off baking this pie because I thought, “Pie 100 has to be the best yet.” “Pie 100 deserves a really special occasion.” “Pie 100 has to be over-the-top and awe-inspiring to all who encounter it.”

Then all of a sudden it was Christmas and I had to make a pie for Christmas. So I just made something I thought sounded yummy, and Christmasy. You can’t force this kind of thing.

My commonwealth friends will know what I’m talking about when I say that I think the most Christmasy taste in all the world is mince pie. I guess to be specific, that taste is cloves. But yes. Very Christmasy.

Ken Haedrich calls this pie Dried Cranberry and Walnut Funeral Pie, which doesn’t sound very Christmasy, or even slightly cheerful. But it definitely tasted like the holidays. It was eaten without fanfare, on a cozy Christmas Eve. 200 pies to go. I wonder how many will be baked in 2013?

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IMG_1196Stirring the filling/crying in anticipation for Les Mis. Typical.

IMG_1197Sneakin’. Also typical.

IMG_1219This pie was such a good poser, I couldn’t help myself.

IMG_1221Pie in a sleigh.

IMG_1222Pie with a Levi.

IMG_1225Pie waiting to become a ghost of Christmas past.

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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. I hope you all had fantastic Valentine’s Days, by the way. One of these days I’ll start being seasonally accurate. But really, would that be as fun?