It is a pie month..ok maybe year

Let me first start off with, I am not a pie person.  I never was.  So it found it quite strange when I really wanted pie and not a particular pie but all kinds.  This is strange to me since I don’t even like fruit pies all too much.  I like fruit fresh not so much cooked.  Mid October came around and I would be looking  for pie.  I really want the fresh strawberry pie from Baker’s Square but most of them closed and they claim it is only seasonal.  Lies all lies.  So I have been getting random pieces of pies everywhere I go: apple, pumpkin, and pecan.  I even had The Husband go out and buy a strawberry pie. 

When Thanksgiving rolled around, someone asked me to make two pies I jumped at the opportunity.  I used my pie dough recipe form the pie competition I entered.  The task at hand was to make a pecan and a pumpkin pie.  As I was making it, The Husband was questioning why I was blind baking the pie.  I told him so it won’t be soggy on the bottom.  He promptly told me that it is suppose to be soggy like Jewel pies (if I offend anybody, I apologize now).  I’m just quoting him.  So I just ignored him and continues to bake.  The Husband just watched and asked a bunch of questions and comparing all the steps to how the pies are in Jewel.  I was close to kicking him out of the kitchen but I know he means better.  He did the same thing with Thanksgiving Dinner.  He questioned why I didn’t use the can cranberries and why I was making it from scratch.  Please feel free to argue that point…….

Back to my original point, here are the pies I made.  I got the pecan recipe from Simply Recipes.  I omitted the molasses because I came to find out, we ran out. 

 

The pumpkin pie I got the recipe from All Recipes. 

 

If anybody knows where I could get a good strawberry pie in Chicago in the middle of winter, please let me know.  I am willing to order and have it mailed to me.