Category: Pie

• Blueberry pie, just blueberries

  All my cooking life I’ve tended toward recipes that jazz things up. Not this one. Marion Cunningham’s Fresh Berry Pie in her revised Fanny Farmer Baking Book adds scarcely any thickener, which means it’s runny if you eat it before it’s sat on the counter overnight. It also means you taste nothing but blueberries (when those…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 22, 2014

  Desserts, Fruit, Pie, Seasonal food, Simple foods

  Blueberries, cooking from garden, Fannie Farmer Baking Book

• Strawberry pie; pork and cabbage salad

  At the tire store yesterday to get a pickup tire patched, I bought this spring’s first local strawberries. (Hey, in our neck of the woods, it can pay to listen to the old men chatting amongst themselves!) They were perfectly ripe and sweet, he obviously picked them before the drenching rains hit, and I had…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 16, 2014

  Desserts, Fruit, Pie, Rural life, Salad, Simple foods

  Baking, Cabbage, healthy eating, Pork leftovers, Strawberries

• September morn

  We woke up this morning to the sound of war. Well, war if you’re a dove, one of those poor, silly, pink-footed boobies that don’t even know enough to fly out of the road with cars approaching. This was a lot of fellas with more money than sense blasting away as soon as the grayest…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 1, 2012

  Baking, Desserts, Fall, Fruit, Pie, Seasonal food, Simple foods

  Easy baking, Galette, Peach tart

• A Tale of Two Pies

  I ate the best beef of my life last week at 131 Main in Cornelius (NC) — another bon voyage whoopdedo for Dora the Explorer. I ordered the Thai Style Steak Salad and expected the usual chewy beef bites that bite back. But these were like butter — tender, sweet and with a distinctive flavor. I…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 28, 2012

  healthy cooking, Pie, Seasonal food, Tomatoes

  131 Main Cornelius, cheese, church cookbooks, First Presbyterian Statesville, onions, Tomatoes