Pumping Pumpkin
October 29, 2009 · Food | School
Got personal tricks for high-impact baking?
Recipe Hacks, Presentation For Primo Pie
Okay, listen up.
Tuesday we got the PTA Election Day Bake Sale at Big Brick Elementary School.
Pie from this kitchen going up against bundt cake, Nana’s rugula, Italian mamas’ cookies.
Show up with your A-baking, or take the stuff straight to the teacher’s lounge.
Ain’t nobody gonna buy so-so.
Pie Coach, who exists only in my head, only during October and November, is totally wrong here. People could care less what you bring to a bake sale. Nevertheless, I will try too hard.
And Big Brick will see my house-specialty signature cleverly decorated ultimo pumpkin pie.
That time of year again, Pie Time, and the need is upon me. One big multi-pie session a week. For every one we eat, I give away at least four, so I can pie again.
At first, neighbors and new friends can be sort of disturbed by pie for no reason. But then they want more.
Like they'll want your pie.
Go:
Newbies need to know that pumpkin pie is stupid-easy. Pick up a can of Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin and premade pie crust (two to a box), and a couple throw-away 9-inch pie tins (apologies to Planet Earth). Read the recipe on the can, acquire the listed ingredients, do what the can tells you to. Bingo, two perfectly presentable pies.
Do the above with the following alterations and rock your entire dessert world.
- Don’t add sugar.
- Sub in a can of sweetened condensed milk for one of the two cans of plain evaporated milk called-for.
- Punch up spicing by adding ¼ to ½ teaspoon of ground nutmeg.
Now you got pie for adults – not too sweet, big flavor, nice toungue-bite.
Last season two people proclaimed this pie lifetime best-tasting.
And you can make them jump and holler even before they taste.
Do it with cutouts of autumn leaves, executed in crust, up on top.
Have extra crust on hand. Unroll a piece and make leaves. For speed and precision employ clever crust cutter-outers in Pater's Picks. Put the leaves on a cookie sheet and give them 10 minutes in the oven while the pies are in.
About a half-hour into pies’ allotted baking time, open the oven and place leaves on pie tops.
Yo, Pie Guy.
Got your own smooth baking move? Give...
Pater’s Plays
Look To The Rainbow by Petula Clark and Fred Astaire
Living bequest of Irish-oid wisdom from Dad to Daughter, celebrated by both in sentimental duet. More sentimental if you, like Pater, are a fan of Fred Astaire, pushing 70 when this was recorded. Message in the song for us dads: Your good words can be a lifelong treasure for your kid(s), better than gold, which the titular Finian (Astaire) loses.
Advertisements
Pater’s Picks
BAD KITTY Books by Nick Bruel
Bruel's brill books starring psycho cat has our seriously reluctant reader second-grader poring over the pages for half-hour stretches, even more, without threats…
October 15, 2010 | Permanent Link
Recent Blog Entries
- Roadie Leads To At-Home Daddy Guilt · September 30, 2010
- On The Road Again - Pater Has An Assignment! · September 21, 2010
- Upscale Sales Pitches That Flatter And Set You Up To Get Screwed · September 2, 2010
- Savaged By Beasts In The Blackboard Jungle · August 18, 2010
- Higher Wisdom In Low-End Washing Machine · August 5, 2010
- Gone, Gone, Gone · July 15, 2010
- Where Does Summer Go? · July 1, 2010
- Goodbye To First Grade, Deep Gratitude To Mrs. Taylor · June 24, 2010
- When Kraft Got It On With Bob Evans · June 16, 2010
- Dad Demos Slippery Slide, Spangs Back · June 2, 2010
Blog Entries by Category
Advertisement
Comments
Pie Guy,
I hate to bake, but you inspired me. And you were right. It was super easy and delicious. My 6 year old daughter made it from start to finish. My children ate it for breakfast and finished it tonight for dessert. It was a hit at my house.
Thanks!
MR
Comment #1, posted by MR on November 1, 2009 at 09:51:56 PM
Miss your PIES!!! Oh man, why did you remind me!??!?!
Comment #2, posted by Purple Anjel on November 12, 2009 at 06:36:04 PM
Post a Comment