Dallas Dream of PIE DAY 2021

 It is finally here, one of my favorite holidays.  Of course I am required to love pi day because I am a mathematician, but I am also a pie-maker, this day was make for people like.  

I wasn't going to go crazy with pies this year, but Amy pushed me into it.  I was only going to make 2 pies, but Amy figured we should probably make one for everyone in the family.  We ended up baking 6 pies, (and some friends brought over a 7th pie).  That is a lot of pies for a small family, we ended up sharing most of them. 

Here is what we made: 

-Apple Pie (American Favorite)

-Coconut Cream Pie (One of Amy's favorites I made earlier this year)

-Milk bar Pie (this is a New one we have never made before)

-Nantucket Cranberry Pie (One of my favorite I made previously)

-Strawberry Pie (was suppose to be strawberry-rhubarb, we we couldn't find any rhubard)

-Cookie Pie (Amy actually made this one, she loves cookies)

-Key Lime Pie (brought to us by our friends)

The Apple pie we as pretty good, it usually is.  We made this one with a crumble top this time, I think I prefer the crumble top.  

The coconut cream pie turned out really nice, maybe the best pie out this year.  

The milk-bar pie (or Crack pie), was a nice flavor, but the inside did not set, or perhaps it got too hot, when  cut into it, was still a little soupy.  Perhaps I did not cook it enough.  The crust of this pie was a large oatmeal cookie that we stuck in a blender and the inside was was like a sweet caramel filling. 

 

The Nantucket Cranberry pie my other favorite this year.  The cake-y top with the cranberries is a real treat.   

This Strawberry pie was not my favorite, I think if you are going to cook strawberries in a pie, you really need the rhubarb.  It was still not bad, but just not as good as some of the others. 

Here is the Chocolate Chip Cookie pie, made entirely by Amy (except I made the crust). I didn't try this one.  With so many other options, I opted not to fill myself with a cookie when I could have pie. 

The key lime was very good, brought by our mathematician friends how live close by. 


All in all, a very successful pie day. 































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