I kind of went crazy with strawberries this year. So much so that I have a whole week’s worth of strawberry recipes to post. So I’m doing one a day, and I’m starting with the shortest.
Tag: pie
Here’s what I will say about this pie: Martha Stewart failed me this Thanksgiving.
I spent a ton of time working on 2 desserts from her November 2011 issue: the 6-layer salted caramel chocolate cake, and this pie. Both sounded delicious in theory, neither really worked. And since I take baking pretty seriously this was not good. We had my in-laws staying with us Thanksgiving week, so hearing baking comments and questions from the MIL every time I brought out a new dessert fail essentially killed my festive spirit (pregnancy hormones didn’t help, either). Nobody needed to tell me they were both insane desserts, but who doesn’t want their houseguests to just lie to them?
I take back every hint of doubt I had last night about this pie. I have a confession to make: I only let this cool for about 2 and a half hours, when I was actually supposed to cool it for 4. I stuck it in the special Turbo Chill drawer of my fridge and hoped for a speedy finish. In my rush to eat it last night before falling asleep, I didn’t follow the directions.