Softball Quiche

Today I baked a ham, cheese, and tomato quiche for Todd and I to take to the softball game tonight. Sports are more fun with pie!

Polaris Apple Crisp Pie

This is a pie that I baked for the Polaris Weapon Master, Dragon Master. 

Taco Quiche!

I came up with the idea of making a Mexican style quiche when Anuar brought a bag of quesadilla cheese to my house. One of these quiches is made with Al Pastor meat and the other is made with soy-rizo, the veggie version of chorizo. Both of these quiches have cilantro, jalapeño goat cheese, queso cheese and tomato. 

Kelsey and I whipped these up for our sweaty man friends and they were gone in 30 minutes!

Iowa State Fair Peach Pie Competition

These are just some of the peach pies from the Iowa State Fair competition. I never win but I love to enter and meet other bakers. Can you spot my pie?

The day before the fair I made two pies with two different kinds of peaches, because it's hard to predict how the peach will taste after it bakes.

 You never know who you will get for judges. I've noticed that they focus on different things from year to year, so you could make a pie that would win in 2015, but wouldn't win in 2017.

I also made a small pie for us to enjoy at the hotel.

Apple Pie for Lady Armstrong

I made this apple pie for our dear friend Lady Armstrong and her family of hungry warriors. The earwig is Lady A's symbol and I thought it would work well to ward of pesky flies.

Apple Crisp Pie

I made this pie because people love my mother's apple crisp and I thought it would be even better in a buttery pie shell.

Father's Day Quiche 2017

Today I made a quiche for my father because he is a big fan of eggs, bacon and cheese. I also added some salted onions for some depth of flavor. 

My Father's Birthday Apple Pie

Life threw some punches and I haven't had a reason to make a pie since Thanksgiving. Well, today is my wonderful father's birthday and what would be a better gift other than his favourite kind of pie?

The crust on this pie was so flakey and buttery it was hard to work with, but all my swearing paid off.

He's not smiling because I haven't served him yet. 

Thanksgiving Pies

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun this year. We had a chance to see Rob's Father and my parents in two glutinous days. This year I made a pumpkin pie from a sweet pumpkin. I had never done this before because Martha Stewart told me that canned pumpkin was just as good. Rob had his heart set on a traditional pumpkin pie so I had fun giving it a go.

I had to wash the sweet pumpkin. Cut it into small pieces, and then steam it on the stove top. When that was done, I scrapped the flesh from the skin and mashed it with egg and spices. It was pretty simple. And it turned out pretty tasty too.

After thanksgiving I also made a ham and cheese quiche. I would have made it turkey and cheese, but we didn't do the turkey thing this year.

Pie Chart... Literally

Anuar's Ham and Cheese Quiche

Our lovely friend Anuar came for a visit this weekend and he is a lover of quiche. So I whipped one up this morning. This one had fried ham, onion, garlic, mushroom and queso cheese. Anuar bought a huge bag of queso cheese to make quesadillas and this cheese tastes great in quiche. I've decided Anuar needs to pay us another visit so I have a reason to make a queso, chorizo and jalapeno quiche... mmmm.

United Church of Beloit Sweet Potato Pie

Our church had their traditional thanksgiving feast today. Most members brought a casserole or dessert. I brought a sweet potato pie. The crust turned out very nice. But the kitchen volunteers didn't know it was sweet potato and mixed the pre cut slices in which other people's pumpkin pie... So I think a few people had a surprise when they took a bite.

Ham, mushroom, onion, tomato and cheese Quiche!

Our lovely landlords gave us some farm fresh eggs the other day. So I thought they would go perfect in a quiche. A normal quiche receipe calls for 4-6 eggs. But these chicken eggs were so small I used the whole dozen. This quiche turned out delicious, probably because it has way too much cheese in it.

Welty Environmental Center Fall Fest Pie Contest

This year my church friend Mark told me about a pie contest at the Welty Environmental Center in Beloit, WI. I was excited to meet fellow local pie bakers and to practice my apple pie. I made about four trips to the Apple Hut to buy freshly grown fall apples. I found that they had a local variety that was perfect for baking. They were a little sweet and kept their shape when baked.

So this morning Robert and I took the pie to the center and we returned for judging at 12:30pm. When we came back we found that I was the only person that had submitted a pie. This was a surprise to me because when I spoke with Mark about it, his stories made it should like there were multiple entries in previous years.

I'm not complaining because I won! lol But it was fun to watch everyone eat my pie. I got a ton of compliments and I was sad I couldn't have a slice. I will most definitely do this again next year, and I will help to promote the contest.



This is a photo of one of the practice pies.

https://weltycenter.org/event/fall-festival-2/

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

I made this strawberry rhubarb pie for my boyfriends mother and it turned out great. The texture of the fruit was nice and you could hardly taste any tartness. 

Apple rose petal pie

This pie is beautiful and yummy buy a pain in the booty to make. It was fun, but never again. Lol

VFW St. Patties Pot Luck Pie

PI made this peanut butter cream pie for the VFW. The bartender liked it!

Apple Pie for a favor

So a client of my company is going to fix our metal lawn ornament. It is a snowman made out of propane tanks. He holds a beer, smokes a cigar and is smiling. But his cigar fell out of his mouth and I had nothing to weld it back on with. 

So this yummy apple pie is for the man assigned to the task of doing it.

Pi Day Pie

Happy Pi Day everyone! I made my favorite chocolate custard pie to celebrate the day.

Cherry Pie for Kevin

So we have had a boarder for the last couple of months. Kevin has been a really fun roommate and Rob and I are going to miss him dearly. So of course, I made him a cherry pie.

I've tried to make fresh cherry pie in the past and I was never really a fan of it. So this time I used canned cherries and the pie turned out really sweet and pretty. The next time I use canned cherry pie filling I will doctor it a little with cornstarch because it's a bit runny when you cut a slice.