The Pie Man
Well in the spirit of Thanksgiving I am baking some pies. Pumpkin and Apple to be exact.
Pie crust is an important part of the pie. Years ago I used to make my own crusts. But after a while I realized that pie crusts are just too cheap and easy to buy. It takes a lot of work to make a good pie crust and I choose to take it easy on the holiday.
This year I bought these Pillsbury pie crusts. They come rolled, but you slowly unroll them and set them in your pie tin. I had a lot of extra hanging over on my crust. So I just rolled it back along the edge, pinching it together as I went around. One crust develeoped some holes. I used the overlapping bit as a patch. Think it should work just fine.
I made the apple pie first. I peeled, cored, and diced some green apples and placed them evenly in the pie tin. The recipe calls for 4 cups. Then I sprinkled 1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon over the apples.
I then took a bowl and mixed 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of whole wheat flour, and 1/2 tablespoon salt together. The recipe actually calls for 1 & 3/4 cups of sugar, but I found that is a bit too much in the past.
Once the dry ingredients are mixed, I added 3 tablespoons of milk and 6 tablespoons of creamer in bowl and combined them. Then I added the liguid to the dry and beat it four 8 minutes.
Then I poured the mixture evenly over the apples. You bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour to hour and quarter. You can serve it warm. Ice cream is always a nice touch.
With the apple pie in the oven i took a peek at the turkey. My daughter is soaking it over night in a brine. Actually letting it thaw out. The brine consist of two gallons of water to which she added 2 lemons cut in half and squeezed. Drop the lemons in. One cup of sugar. Salt mabe a cup there, don’t recall. A handfull of cloves and several cinnamon sticks. First year we have done this. Am curious to see how it tastes.
Before I leave my the subject of my daughter, she passed her drivers test this morning. 100%. The lady said she does not see a lot of those. No wonder all these drivers are so bad.
Peeking time is over. So I worked on the pumpkin pie. The pumpkin pie is all out of can. I have never made a pumpkin pie from scratch.
I combined several dry incredients first. 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves. Once this is combined, add one can of pumpkin pie filling (might be called puree too). Once this is well mixed with the dry ingredients, slowly add one can of evaporated milk.
Pour the mixture into the pie shell.
Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees fahrenheit. Then bake for another 30 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit. Serve it immediately or put it in the fridge for later.
I made a mistake with mine. I misread the instructions. I baked the first 15 minutes at 350 and then baked the second 15 at 425 to compensate. Dang. We’ll find out if I dun good or not in a few hours. It looked good coming out of the oven. We’ll see how good it is tomorrow.
Edit notes: The apple pie needed more apples. My fault. Its just begging for more apples. The pumpkin pie, well it’ just perfect. Whatchu expect out of can. Also I will restart the Hug Hug Club count for this post. So it is possible to get to ribbons off this post my friends.
Thanksgiving was great. I’m so full I did not eat any pie or cake. haha. Tomorrow after shopping. Got to get up at 4:30 cuz the stores open at 5:00 am. It’s 12:45 am now. Tata!
Note: Pictures will be posted later today. Got memory problems which means a reboot is needed. I will post photos then. I’m a sleepy headed pie man. Good night!
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:44 am
the cooking and baking sounds delicious enough as it is!! can’t wait for those photos, I need a good drooling…
Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:09 am
Pie Man Chupppp!!!!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:11 am
congratulations to Simple Daughter!
yes, pictures!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 am
so nice..
Pie woh..
lao hao sui..
cos i’m hungry
November 23rd, 2006 at 7:03 am
Time to bake some pies over here too!!!! I’m thinking Apple too!!!!! Wheeee…… wait, maybe not.. Maybe Pear?…. Hmm… shouldn’t be too different, wot?
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:25 am
As long as it’s not burnt, it must taste as good. I hope. Enjoy your pie!
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:25 am
This sounds yummy. I like pie crust that are well-made.
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 am
I love to eat pies…but not make them. Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Working on making you drool now May. Blue Ribbon hugs for you.
Pie hugs Angel. Red Ribbons too!
Thank you from my girl too Angel.
Okay Chen. hahaha White ribbons for you.
I almost did a pear pie LB. There are so many in the grocery store. But my wife says we have two pies and two cakes, so enough is enough. Maybe I will go back Friday.
The pumpkin pie looks like it came out good Abaniko. I cannot wait for the taste test.
I am looking forward to trying the pie crust. It is my biggest worry at the moment PY. Will let you all know later.
I have been too lazy to make pies the last couple of years Bkworm. I figured it would be a nice thing to share with bloggers. keke
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
wah…. I luvvvvvvvvvvvvvv pies!
November 24th, 2006 at 12:57 am
I’ll wait for the pix.
Btw, why do you need to soak the Turkey in brine? Can’t just thaw it like you thaw mean normally?
Maybe it’s a secret recipe your daugther has. ;P
November 24th, 2006 at 1:04 am
I luv pie too Angeleyes. Why I decide to make it instead of just buy it. *slurp*
Probably be out for you guys on Friday ZM. The pictures that is. This brine is like a marinade that my daughter wanted to try. Tell you what. The turkey was juicy, firm and quite tasty. She done good.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:50 am
New chups from here.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Pie!!!!! Mmmmmmmm………
November 24th, 2006 at 2:24 am
I like this post now!! I love the pix!!
I want a piece of pie now!
November 24th, 2006 at 2:29 am
me me me! hehe…
November 24th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Your ‘mistake’ suddenly reminded me of LB’s Giant Muffin haha…
Thanks for the beautiful pics!
November 24th, 2006 at 3:14 am
Yum! What great looking pies. I hope your family had an enjoyable thanksgiving and congrats to your little one on passing her test with flying colors!
November 24th, 2006 at 4:45 am
Congrats to AmericanDaughter! Yay!
*drooling over pumpkin pie*
I just can’t wait to see the turkey….
*joins the queue*
November 24th, 2006 at 9:17 am
if only food can be teleported..
November 24th, 2006 at 10:31 am
The apple pie looks good… wish I have an oven… I wonder if I can use my mom’s convectional microwave oven for this… hmm… are all the ingredients stated there? Will u mind if I do a cut and paste?
November 24th, 2006 at 10:32 am
test… posted a comment but I dun see it here… test test…
November 24th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Pillsbury waffles (blueberry) used to be a favourite for breakfast when we were in LA. =)
November 24th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
The post already sounds yummy….now with the photos, it makes me hungry. *winks*
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 24th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Pie and a Blue Ribbon for you M.
I wish I could give you a piece of the pie ZM. Even my SIL that does not like sweets loved my apple pie’s crunchiness. Superb she sez. Red Ribbon for you.
You you you Angel White Ribbons.
Hehe. Fortunately, the booboo was not critical.
Thank you thank you Alisa. We had a nice Thanksgiving. I wish the same to your and your loved ones.
Thank you on behalf of AmericanDaughter Plinksan. Hope to have turkey pics done soon.
If only you could be teleported misti!!!
Please feel free to use the recipes Pinkie. It should work in a convection oven too.
You passed the test Pinkie.
Those are good JY. Want me to mail you some?
Good PY. Oh, wait. Hmmm… Hope you can find something good to eat.
Thank you!
November 24th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Ohhh, those pie look delicious!
I can just imagine you doing each step in the cooking and taking time to snap a picture in between.
Fun!
So, how did that Turkey taste?
November 25th, 2006 at 12:56 am
holy food bake…. that looks good…
November 25th, 2006 at 2:52 am
Oh my gosh i am so envious of you!! u can bake pies! and i can’t… my pies always come out ugly.. hehehe..
November 25th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Thanks
November 25th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
It was kind of fun to snap pics and stir Shoshana. The turkey was really juicy and tasted wonderful.
It was FF. All history now. Ravenous wolves in my house. haha
Well if you need some pointers just ask JJ.
Youy welcome Pinkie.
November 26th, 2006 at 2:08 am
do u know how to make cat pies?
November 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
I could try Wuching.
November 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Cinnamon is the secret! yummy yummy!!!!
November 26th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
The cinnamon made it so crunchy as I applied a liberal sprinlkling on it Cara. Need to make another one. Oh boy.
November 27th, 2006 at 12:11 am
That is a easy way of baking pie with the instant roll=on pie crust!!! Hey, what is the result of soaking the turkey? Is it necessary?
November 27th, 2006 at 12:20 am
It was very easy your highness. I ate working with crust. One slip up and your crust is so much playdough.
No. You don’t have to do that. But this was one of the juciest turkeys I ever had the pleasure to eat. Not dry one bit.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
we have them here in SG too so it’s alright, SA. no one to share them with as no one in the family fancies them.
November 27th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Well that’s even better JY. You can have them all for yourself!
November 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
it looks so fun!! such a nice family event… i wish we had that here!!
November 30th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
I wish we had you here Cat. Then you could celebrate too.