Pie Are Squared: Pink Lady Apple Pie

"My grandmother used to say, 'Men expect women to be particular. As women, we shouldn't disappoint them.'"
With that in mind, the Patty Pinner advised me ask for a higher standard and use Pink Lady apples for this pie. I am not enough of an apple connoisseur to identify if Pink Lady apple pie is any better--or any different--from regular apple pie. But it was good.

I used the flag method of fluting the pie, which I thought looked kind of silly when it was raw. Then I added some little maple leaf crust shapes, brushed it with milk, and sprinkled on some sugar in the raw.
Once it was baked, the flag crust looked less silly.

Ratings:

Flavor: 8

Execution: 9. I thought it turned out rather nicely.

Difficulty: Medium. Though I feel like I may not be a good judge of pie difficulty. I'm not a huge fan of rolling out the dough, but it's not really difficult, but I don't like to do it, so double crust pies are more of a pain...I'll let you decide.

Overall rating: **** 4 out of 5 stars.

This pie crust recipe always leaves a fair amount of leftovers; double crust doubles the leftover. I always refrigerate the leftovers for a few days, thinking I'll do something with it later. I never have.
This time, though, my husband decided to put an end to the wasting of pie crust in our household and made a savory pie for dinner.

It was meaty and spicy and good. Thanks, dear. He did a pretty good job, eh?

Also, need I remind you that the biggest pie making holiday of the year is approaching? Happy pie making/eating, everyone.

Pie Are Squared: Old-fashioned Apple Meringue Pie

I had grand plans for Pi Day. I'd never celebrated it before, but here I was, making pies every other week, and Pi Day even landed on my week! But we had to leave town for a funeral all weekend, so I had to improvise a bit.
There were only a couple of recipes that I could do, seeing as it was Sunday evening when we got home, and I only had certain ingredients. So I went with the Apple Meringue.
First, you bake in the apple filling:

Top it with meringue:

Bake again:

Slice, eat, enjoy:

I think the forces of Pi were smiling down on me, for this was a truly delicious pie. The idea of meringue on an apple pie struck me as kind of weird, as I'm sure it did you, but it was a nice combination. I was a little wary of the meringue because a lot of homemade meringue pies are soggy and runny (and gross), but I think this meringue was quite nice. The buttery crust coupled with butter in the filling made it yummy. PLUS, I hate when recipes call for just yolks or just whites, but this was the perfect pie because the filling called for 3 yolks, and the meringue called for 3 whites! It rounded things out perfectly. Just like Pi.

Ratings:
Flavor: 9-Really delicious. But I'm hesitant to hand out the perfect 10. But maybe I'm setting an impossible standard. This was a really yummy pie.
Execution: 9-If there were no topping, it would have been ugly, but the meringue gave it a nice, tasteful wig.
Difficulty: Easy
Overall rating: ***** 5 out of 5 stars. I'd make this again for sure.