Pie meme!
With Thanksgiving around the corner, I have a very important question to ask you:
If you were a pie, what pie would you be, and why?
Think of the pies in the movie "Waitress," if you need inspiration. Ideally, your pie will be something that a) represents you, b) involves flavors you love, and c) would taste good as a whole, but you're welcome to do whatever you want. :-)
Sinope Pie has a homemade buttery crust, filled with layers of chopped cardamom-dusted pistachios, molasses-dark candied figs, and vanilla-scented crème fraiche, topped with a labyrinth of thin-piped bittersweet ganache.
And here's why.
The homemade buttery crust is not just because my fondness for cooking with butter has given me some of my generous curves, but also because it evokes the simple, homey, Southern warm fuzzies that I want my cooking (and my presence in general) to inspire.
The interior is discrete layers, because my personality has always been rather divided -- very different people in different contexts. There's the creamy vanilla layer of me (with just a hint of tang!), the spicy-nutty layer of me, and the sensual, just-slightly-erotic layer. Plus, the three layers come together to evoke something that's exotic and interesting and vaguely Mediterranean, which is how I'd like to be.
Finally, the ganache is the hint of dark bitterness that touches on everything else, and the labyrinth is both my logical/puzzle-solving nature and the spiritual certainty that, just as all paths eventually lead to the center of a labyrinth, so will I eventually end up where I need to be.
So, what pie would you be? Feel free to answer here or in your journal (but if you answer there, link to it here!).
P.S. We're doing Thanksgiving at jadasc et al's house, so there is a distinct possibility that there will be jadasc Pie baked in the next week . . .
If you were a pie, what pie would you be, and why?
Think of the pies in the movie "Waitress," if you need inspiration. Ideally, your pie will be something that a) represents you, b) involves flavors you love, and c) would taste good as a whole, but you're welcome to do whatever you want. :-)
Sinope Pie has a homemade buttery crust, filled with layers of chopped cardamom-dusted pistachios, molasses-dark candied figs, and vanilla-scented crème fraiche, topped with a labyrinth of thin-piped bittersweet ganache.
And here's why.
The homemade buttery crust is not just because my fondness for cooking with butter has given me some of my generous curves, but also because it evokes the simple, homey, Southern warm fuzzies that I want my cooking (and my presence in general) to inspire.
The interior is discrete layers, because my personality has always been rather divided -- very different people in different contexts. There's the creamy vanilla layer of me (with just a hint of tang!), the spicy-nutty layer of me, and the sensual, just-slightly-erotic layer. Plus, the three layers come together to evoke something that's exotic and interesting and vaguely Mediterranean, which is how I'd like to be.
Finally, the ganache is the hint of dark bitterness that touches on everything else, and the labyrinth is both my logical/puzzle-solving nature and the spiritual certainty that, just as all paths eventually lead to the center of a labyrinth, so will I eventually end up where I need to be.
So, what pie would you be? Feel free to answer here or in your journal (but if you answer there, link to it here!).
P.S. We're doing Thanksgiving at jadasc et al's house, so there is a distinct possibility that there will be jadasc Pie baked in the next week . . .