Adventures in Pie

I truly enjoy baking pies.

I've decided that I'm going to try two new pies this year. We have a company potluck coming up and I have to bring a dish for that, so I'm going to try a light Banana Cream Pie. I've always been slightly hesitant about a banana flavored anything, I think due to my mom's distaste of it. Although lately I've been enjoying banana flavored puddings and yogurts more. So I figured, why not try a banana cream pie? Someone at the potluck is bound to enjoy it. And the recipes I've tried from SkinnyTaste have been AH-mazing, so I have high hopes for this one. You can find the recipe here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/10/banana-cream-pie.html.

The second new pie I will be trying is undecided yet. I'm trying to find a good recipe for a chocolate chip cream pie or an oreo cheesecake I think. I know that there's a pie in a magazine I read recently that I coveted and craved, so I'll have to go root around for that tonight. This pie is part of my Thanksgiving batch of pies, which will be carted with me from Ohio to Moravian Falls, North Carolina to a cabin in the woods for our family thanksgiving. I feel a little sentimental (okay a lot) about this year because it is K's & my first Thanksgiving and first roadtrip as a married couple. I'm excited to bring some pies and say things like, "Yes, these are our contribution," and "Oh yes, we made these together," even though I'm fully aware that I will be taking control in the kitchen and creating these pies myself. I need to work on the presentation. I'm pretty good at the taste of a baked good, its just that typically they turn out messy and falling over. I'm not very patient when it comes to creating. I think I view baking as a sort of expression, and in my head it seems obvious to let things just kind of go down as they'd like to. If it wants to fall over or drip down the side, so be it. I'm a big fan of not being perfect.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic. The other two pies I have made before and they are favorites. A reduced fat pumpkin cheesecake (to die for. i'm drooling just thinking about it), and an apple pie. I am not nearly as much of a fan of an apple pie as K is, partially due to the fact that I like chocolatey or pumpkiny flavors better, but equally due to the fact that I have to peel so many damn apples to make a pie that K will devour practically overnight. However, I am a loving wife and will always make him his apple pie. Plus, I need to improve on my latice-work.

I told K that I'll be baking and bringing these three different kinds of pies to thanksgiving and he expressed shock that I was making three pies. I did not tell him that I really wanted to make double of each and bring six. Maybe I will anyway ;)


I will post pictures of my finished pies as they are completed. Wish me luck!

 xo,
Rae