Beet pie. Creamy Sweet Beet Pie with Hazelnut Crust and Yogurt Syrup. This is my ode to the beet.
I love it. It is good steamed/boiled, but why stop there? Surely the humble, yet provocatively deep red-colored, beet has more to offer beyond the boundaries of salads, or worse, as a natural red food color. The result of an evening of inspiration and creativity was this Creamy Sweet Beet Pie with Hazelnut Crust. The yogurt syrup makes it even better.
Like a northern snowbird, I headed south last week. Beets, we meet again. Your unassuming presence change once peeled and cut, and you resemble rubies or garnets. Just looking at you make me smile. Oh, god, I talk to vegetables. Well, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go back to being sane. Enamored is an understatement as to how I feel about beets. For the crust, I wasn’t feeling the flaky dough crust, so I decided on a graham cracker crust. The ground-nut crust was borne out of last month’s almond-grinding for the macarons. The hazelnut and wheat germ crust went perfectly well with the beets. Edible/Usable: Beet Pie. I am actually working on blog posts about UX and usability (really, I've got two in the works...) but this is an emergency recipe posting!
A few weeks ago, we went to visit some friends in Pennsylvania. They live in the northern part, past the Poconos - a really nice part of the state that I'd never been to before. They have a beautiful hill-top apple orchard that they are in the process of reviving. It's all organic, so I picked some apples and planned to go home and make an apple pie (which I did last weekend). I forget why it came up, but I think I started going off on how much I love beets and how wonderful they are. I wasn't really sure what to expect. Beet Pie 1 single unbaked pie shell (9 inches) 2 medium beets 1/2 cup grade B maple syrup 3 eggs 1 t cinnamon 1/2 t nutmeg 1/2 t ground cloves 1/4 t white vinegar 1/2 t salt 1 t vanilla 2 T butter 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 T flour 3/4 cup dried cranberries 3/4 cup roughly chopped walnuts Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees.
Autumn Fruit Pie Recipe by Fine Cooking. Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Pie. Nutter Butter- Peanut Butter Pie If you hadn’t heard already, our food blogging friend Jennie lost her husband Mikey last week.
It was a sudden and unexpected loss. The kind of loss that is unfair in every way. In the midst of grieving for her lost love, she asked the world to make a peanut butter pie (Mikey’s favorite) and share it with someone they love. In response, the world made pies. So here’s my Peanut Butter Pie, my tribute to Mikey and love to Jennie and her family, that I was able to share with my own family.
I went with a Nutter Butter crust. If you’re not familiar with Nutter Butters- they’re pretty much just like an Oreo… with peanut butter cookie and peanut butter cream filling. As much as we love Nutter Butters, they had to be smashed into bits for the crust. This is a no-bake, perfect-for-summer kind of pie. A nice layer of hot fudge is then spooned on top. Then it’s topped with the peanut butter cream filling… …and smoothed on top.