Today I watched one of my most favorite movies The Waitress and decided to make a pie. Watch the movie and I guarantee you'll want to invent your own. Unless you don't like baking or being creative. Then, I guess you're a boring human being and you can just go buy one at the store and watch your boring prime time tv tonight.
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| pastry crust preparation thanks to Better Homes & Gardens |
Cutting up berries with a paring knife the way my mom taught me (the opposite of Boyscout knife safety - towards the thumb - although, if you ask Jon to tell you one of his Scout Camp stories, they didn't follow the safety rules anyway) gave me an intense sense of nostalgia. I always used to ask my mom, "How do you not cut yourself but you cut the whole piece of fruit?" I can't tell you the secret. But maybe a Boyscout can.
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| Mixed berry filling |
The waitress in the movie (The Waitress) creates and invents her own pies and gives them unique names. That was a good enough excuse for me. It's called Bad Dog Sweet Berry Pie, in honor of my dog's bipolar behaviors today... that, and all I had to make a pie was a bunch of berries and some Icelandic chocolate to melt and do something with.
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| double crust with swirly vents |
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| Bad Dog Sweet Berry pie |
Unfortunately, the results of the pie could not be photographed because they were worse than my bad dog. Note to self: if you're going to use fresh berries in a pie, learn how to bake a pie. No one wants to eat runny diarrhea berry pie. And Chef Jon said the chocolate was a bad addition. Pie Fail.
Will practice make perfect???
