Anyone adventurous enough to have explored beyond the standard dessert pies into*strange * pie territory? Meat pies, odd fruit pies, veggie pies, odd pies… what have you done piewise? How did it turn out?
Depends on what you call odd I suppose. I’ve done mulberry pies when I could get enough. I have an ancient recipe for Concord grape pie that is absolutely luscious, but sometimes it’s hard to get Concord grapes.
Shoofly pie is kind of fun, and sure acts wierd when I’m mixing it. Rhubarb pie is one of the most popular in the cafe, when rhubarb is in season. I made 56 rhubarb pies this season.
I never make stranger pies. All my pies are made from acquaintances.
I’ve made Shoofly pie (thanks to dmatsch’s recipe!) and various concoctions involving rhubarb and other fruits. Probably the strangest would have been the peach and caramel pie I made, though, which is also one of my all time favorites. There’s nothing quite so satisfying as the combination of sweet, soft peaches in a caramel sauce inside a flaky, buttery crust. Mm.
I once had an abundance of green tomatoes at the end of the season, and I made a pie from a recipe I’d found for green tomato mincemeat. It was AWESOME!
CaerieD, you MUST share your recipe!
Meat pies are strange?
Anyway, I regularly make chawettys, which are pork & date pies, and mushroom & cheese pasties
My wife makes spaghetti pie - spaghetti, various cheeses, and sauce, put into a round spring thingy (sorry, don’t know the technical term), and baked. It’s actually very good - we had it for dinner last night, and I tool the leftovers for lunch today.
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For my first Thanksgiving when I was living in India I decided that I had to have a homemade pumpkin pie. So I was ready to mix all the necessary ingredients (including fresh cooked pumpkin) when I realised that I didn’t have any ginger, fresh or dried. What I did have was ginger-garlic paste, which is used in a lot of Indian dishes. So I thought, why not.
Needless to say, I soon knew firsthand why not :rolleyes:
I have the concord grape pie recipe from Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, and I get strange looks every time people hear about it. They all love it, though.
Nine posts gone and no mention of the mythical kidney pie we are all supposed to consume in the UK.
I’ve made Grapefruit and Pumello pie. Not bad, but not great either.
Mum used to make steak and kidney pie when we were kids. We hated it.
Blah!
I did a good green tomato pie last year.
Steak and kidney pie is wonderful. I referring to the misconception some Americans have that we eat something called kidney pie.
I learned about Concord Grape pie about 25 years ago. It’s comon around the Finger Lakes in New York State, which is the only place I know that you can actually buy them (try Naples, N.Y., if you’re interested). Ever since, I’ve made at least one every year, no matter where I lived. If you try hard enough, I guarantee that you can find Concord grapes, wherever you live. concord grape pie is Great! But highly labor-intensive.
Great dave – I read about Gren Tomato Pie in a Nero Wolfe story (and it was purportedly a common item, not remarkable and not a Nero wolfe-Fritz Brenner production), and was amazed. I’d never heard of such a thing before. Somehow, the notion freaks me out even more than Fried Green Tomatoes. I can’t even imagine how such a thing would taste.
Pepper Mill, having Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, makes a mean Shoo Fly Pie.
I made this Amish lemon pie with slices of lemon, peel and all. NASTY. The people I offered it to checked the recipe to make sure I hadn’t gone crazy.
Rhubarb and strawberry pie is quite nice.
About the only pie I make with any sort of regularity is chocolate macaroon pie, which I usually refer to as “hash brown pie” because the toasted coconut on top looks like hash browns.
I made a Leek and Mushroom pie that was great.
I made a chocolate pie with Rice Krispie crust. Make the standard treat recipe.
I never really thought of it as strange pie, but I was the only person in my family who’d eat mince pie. I’d make several pies for the holidays and take them to my folks’ house for my contribution to the yummies. Pumpkin, pecan, apple, cherry, lemon meringue pies were wiped out, but I’d always take home a mince pie, with one slice out of it.
But freckafree’s green tomato mincemeat sounds downright bizarre to me.