Up until I was in my 20′s, my feelings towards pie could be best described as contempt… No frosting, no sprinkles, no colourful eye candy! And you call yourself a dessert! Ha!… I was a cake girl through and through… I don’t know what changed. Perhaps it’s a coming of age thing, or maybe I […]
Dave loves pie… Or more accurately, Dave loves apple pie… Most people are just happy to get a piece of homemade pie, but he’s a strict apple man. It’s been a challenge introducing him to new pie flavours. He doesn’t want to think about other fruits or berries in his pie, and is almost appalled at […]
I scream, you scream, we all scream for…. pie?…. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right… But it is, when the pie is made of ice cream! (Seriously, I may have to rename this blog “The Misfit Ice Cream Maker” ) What we have here is a banana ice cream pie, with a peanut butter […]
This weekend was my mom’s birthday. Of course I jumped on the opportunity to cook up a yummy vegan meal to treat my parents to. The menu I decided on was an Eggplant and Chickpea Stew, served up along side Quinoa Pilaf, and a couple of vegetables… Naturally, dessert had to be extra special, but […]
This is the recipe for the first pie I ever baked. I chose apple, because of all the fruit/berry pies, it seemed to me that the least could go wrong with it. Tales of pie terror had me hesitant from entering the flaky land of pastry and fruity fillings, and I wanted to limit my […]
