with what you have

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Making a pie time, with the late summer bounty.

My late summer bounty = lemon cukes. Seriously, there are so many that they turned into party favors at the pie party. freyley did a tour and picked an armload.

So while i was making the garlic-mashed-potato crust, caramellized-onion filling, rosemary toasted pecan topped pie that was to be labeled RIBSTICKER, i was thinking in the back of my mind how do you make a pie from cucumbers?

So this is what i did:
CRUST

• 1 can of chick peas, drained, into the mashing bowl
• a handful of maseca because it's there, and i wanted the crust to have some backbone
• three or four cloves of garlic, minced
• an excessive amount of paprika
• olive oil! maybe 1/4 cup?
• toasted sesame seeds
• ground cumin
• salt

And i mashed it all with my mysterious heavy wooden masher thingy until it was smooth. Basically, apart from the maseca, hummus. And smooshed it into pie-crust shape in a pie pan, pricked it all over, and stuck it in an oven at something like 400°F. Until - well, for a while. It was hard to tell if the state changed much at all.
That has to cool before you do anything more with it.
FILLIN

• some nice delicious but rather runny organic yogurt
• lots of fresh dill (from the backyard)
• lemon zest (from the lemons that went into equinoctial's deconstructed lemon curd pie)
• ground coriander, a pinch or two
• salt, pepper

Spread out in pleasing layers 2 or so lemon cukes, sliced as thin as you can. After each layer, spoon the yogurt on and moosh it down. Try to get the filling as even as you can. Make the top layer extra pretty, and if you have a spare dill floret, lay that on top. Dash cayenne over the top. It's like cinnamon, but more surprising! Let it sit for a while.

So that's how we make the pie of lemon cucumbers. And that's why we cook seasonally, because who would think to do that?

(Later, when i have time, i'll try to write up the requested something about the zucchini lasagna, but it's likely to be even less of a recipe than this one.)