let them eat pie

We've had a busy weekend spent with good friends, good food and a lot of family time. Happy times. I've been thinking and reflecting a lot this weekend. Between the turkey and the stuffing and the gravy one thing kept coming back to me.

Pies.

I've heard this absurdity that some people don't like pie. This I do not understand. It is a dessert with endless possibilities. Pie is never boring. Whatever dessert you like, there is a pie for you.

You don't like traditional pie crust? Fine - (but I bet you have never had good pie crust...) you can have graham cracker, chocolate, sugar cookie, or cinnamon roll.

Are you a fruit person? You can put it in a pie. You also have cream pies in many varieties: chocolate, coconut (my favorite, but only my mother's recipe), lemon, banana.

There are thick and creamy pies and light and fluffy pies. Pies topped with whipped cream or meringue or a nice brown sugar crumb topping. You can have a pie with pecan or key limes. (Yum!)

Then there are cheesecakes, with all of their endless possibilities including pumpkin and nutella, both of which I have made and devoured, or regular topped with cherries.

I made 3 pies on Wednesday. Pumpkin cheescake (this recipe). Chocolate Cream. And my mother's Coconut Cream. It tasted just like hers. In that moment, I missed my mom. Its amazing what a pie can do.

Go make a pie. Or better yet, I'll make one for you. But first I'm going to go finish one off.