Pies

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fresh pumpkin pie, gluten-free

It’s pumpkin pie time. Pretty much, it’s always pie time around here. I love making pie enough that I was asked to speak at a performance art/pie contest event called PIE STORIES last weekend. Pie stories. I have plenty of those. However, for all the pies I have made — countless pies, hundreds of crimped [...]

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peanut butter pie, gluten-free

Today, all over the world, people are making a pie for Jennifer Perillo’s Mikey. We made one yesterday, so we could freeze it, take it on the airplane for our trip to Utah, and eat some on a family picnic. (The Aherns are gathering. There will be hiking and white water rafting.) I believe we’ll [...]

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gluten-free, vegan pie crust

Thank you to everyone who contributed such delicious recipes for our gluten-free Thanksgiving challenge. My goodness, people! Not only did the original bloggers who posted about their own gluten-free baking challenge blow me away, but the hundreds and hundreds of links to great gluten-free food in the comments could keep anyone baking for months on [...]

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readings, Colorado, and pumpkin pie

I wish that I had the time and energy to tell you all that has been happening around here lately. Some of it — so exciting! — I can’t tell you yet anyway. The rest of the links, dates, and stories I was going to tell you will have to wait until the morning. I’m beat. (I [...]

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gluten-free cherry crumble pie

As I ran down the wooded trail, sunlight on my skin, my thoughts meandered toward the afternoon ahead of me. We had leftover Rainier cherries from our dinner at Dog Mountain Farm. A big bag of Bing cherries waited for me at home, a gift from Northwest Cherries, when they found we couldn’t attend the [...]

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gluten-free pie crust

(We’re thrilled that this recipe is being featured at Oprah.com’s roundup of holiday recipes for 2009. For more of our featured posts, visit Oprah.com today.) I love making pie. There’s no need to tell you more about this. I’ve written about pie so many times before on this site. Each year, I’ve created a pie [...]

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banana cream pie, gluten-free and dairy free

(We’re thrilled that this recipe is being featured at Oprah.com’s roundup of holiday recipes for 2009. For more of our featured posts, visit Oprah.com today.) Pie. If I want to crack up the Chef, all I have to do is look at him straight on, and say “Pie.” He laughs, every time, his head bending [...]

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the deep thrill of lavender

“It’s so good to meet someone else with this,” she said to me, gratefully. “I know!” I said. “I mean, with whom else could we talk about the state of our intestines on first meeting?” Amal laughed across the table. She and I have been trading fart jokes for years. It seems to be the [...]

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who needs gluten when there is pumpkin pie like this?

pumpkin pie spice, originally uploaded by shaunaforce. It is easy. I promise you. It is easy to make pie. Pie intimidates people. I wrote about this last year, so there is no need to repeat myself. Just trust me, especially those of you who have never made a pie from scratch — you can do [...]

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a perfect pumpkin pie

pie I, originally uploaded by shaunaforce. As I drove down the main highway of Vashon Island yesterday afternoon, heading toward my brother’s house for a family feast, I caught it: the first whiff of woodsmoke coming from the side of the road. Sweet with branches and leaves, a little acrid, and deeply familiar, like an [...]

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