Favorite pie?

[Stormborn]

SIGH (doing a lot of that today) - all you people from other countries who naturally assume that "pie" has a "savory" or "meat" catagory don't know how lucky you have it! As a Southern US boy I love meat pies and all that are generally available are nasty frozen things and almost always only chicken (unless you count "Hot Pocket" type things which are sometimes OK, but not the same at all IMO). Fortunatelly, I have a British Mother-in-Law (who doesnt make near enough meat pies BTW) and there are some Mediterranian places around that do variations on the savory pie thing.

As for pies, I second Chess Pie and Key Lime Pie (or is that 3rd?) and peanut butter pies. Although it is a bit heretical I dont care for pecan pie (and that is "peh-chon" not "PEE-cAn" .Say it that second way and we know that you are one of those people from some place "up North"- like South Carolina).

Overall I would rather have Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream. For those who might not know Cobbler is sort of like pie, but with the crust only on top and ranging from pie crusty to more cakey. In order I prefer: Blackberry, Peach, Apple, and otherwise.

Oh, and my wife would want to say two things were she here:
1) Strawberries do not go into Rhubarb Pie, Heretics!
2) Mince Meat in nice.

EDIT: Oh, and if you want Cooking as Science then Food Network's Alton Brown of Good Eats is your man. Especially this book.

 

[Dungannon]

The best pie is cheesecake, with peanut butter pie and apple pie tied for second.

 

[Ferret]

Bolagnaise Pie. Trust me. The crust and the sauce go together really well. Just make a bolagnaise sause however you normaly do. The put it in a dish line with the pastery and cover it with pastry. Cook it, and your done.

It tastes lovely. And I made it up too

 

[RangerWickett]

Okay, so. . . .

My mom always prepared a special dessert pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It really is very simple.

1. Line a glass baking pie dish with graham cracker crust.

2. Get some pumpkin pie filling

3. Get some cookies and cream ice cream.

4. Blend the pumpkin pie filling with the ice cream.

5. Add spices as desired (like nutmeg or what not).

6. Chill the mixture in the glass pie dish. Usually takes 4 to 5 hours.

7. Serve. This was (and is) my favorite holiday desert!

This sounds very cool. I might try it later.

However, I think my natural love of chocolate will drive me to attempt French silk pie next. Oh, but I have a graham cracker crust which I want to use, and I don't want to use graham cracker crust with French silk. Maybe cheese cake instead.

Okay, new question. What graham cracker crust pie should I try next?

 

[Aurora]

Okay, new question. What graham cracker crust pie should I try next?

A Banana Caramel Pie or a Peanut Butter Pie would be good. Yum!

 

[Steve Jung]

Key lime pie is good and relatively easy. I've also made a shoo-fly pipe before, but that didn't turn out so well.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Thing is, I'm not a huge apple pie fan. The apple pies I like have really small pieces of apple, and much more of the goo (I believe that's the technical term for it). I don't like chomping into massive slices of apple in my pies.

But of the fruit pies, I suppose I like apple best. I'm glad so far no one has suggested peach cobbler. Uff da.

I'm the opposite ... I like big pieces of apple, preferrable a tart apple like a Granny Smith. Mmmm. My wife makes one hell of a topless apple pie.

Apple Pie ... all the others are but pale imitations of the Real American Pie (tm).

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I loves Pumpkin and Apple pie. :yum:

 

[Agamon]

*drool* All this pie talk, I'm getting hungry.

Apple rules all, followed closely by pecan. But I can't say I've had a piece of pie I didn't like. LOL, unless you count the kind of pie the Rock used to talk about. (Oy, my mind strays off into weird places sometimes...)

 

[Zoatebix]

1) Strawberries do not go into Rhubarb Pie, Heretics![/URL]

Does it make me worse than I heretic if I like rhubarb pie both with and strawberries?

I mentioned the unholy combination only because recipes are much easier to come by unless you have a vintage cookbook (my folk's ancient Fanny Farmer cookbook lists the strawberries as an option after the rhubarb pie recipe).

I also second the recommendation of Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for More/the Food.