No Pan Pie with No Pie Either...

I'm so scary

To quote Stephen, "If Kate's coming down for the weekend, we're baking something." This has been continued with this weekend's No Pan Pear Pie, as seen on Food Network.

Whenever he described to me its a pie with pears, blueberries, and balsamic vinegar, I was a little skeptical. Balsamic vinegar? In a pie? What? But I figured he hadn't shown any other crazy taste in food, let's try it!

Stephen works the flour into dough as I add juice

We didn't use the apple juice concentrate as the recipe calls for, and rather just 4 Tbs apple juice to 1 Tbs water. I don't think it made any difference.


So the recipe goes make your flour mixture, make your dough, place it in the fridge, cook the pears, balsamic vinegar, and blueberries in a cast iron skillet, put chopped pound cake in middle of rolled out dough, put the fruit over the pound cake, wrap the sides of the pie crust over the top, put it into the oven.

The delicious filling cooks

We were very successful up until that point. It was smelling good, it had lots of butter, it looked delicious. We went to work on D&D characters while it baked. Maybe my incredible skill with sucking with dice rolled over to the pie...

So it comes out of the oven. It looks delicious. I didn't even get to grab a picture of the golden-brown beauty before it happened.

Stephen goes at it with two spatulas to get it un-glued to the pan and to take it over to a wire rack.

It cracks down one side, we try to hold it together.

Pound cake with pie crust.

He puts the spatulas under it and lifts.

It shatters.

Our pie shatters. Just breaks into a few big pieces of pie. He had the more amazing look of defeat. I had the most amazing look of "What does it matter? These blueberries are now free to go into my mouth where they are still appreciated for how good they are!"

Shattered pie

After Stephen calmed down from breaking the pie, it was somehow decided that it should just be totally destroyed. It was taken over to a plastic container and Stephen again went at it with his duel-wielding spatulas, breaking the pie into lots of little pieces.

Little pieces perfect to go with ice cream!

Honestly, I think you should make this recipe and not even try to make it pretty. Yeah, wrap it up, and yeah, I guess if it comes out and transfers flawlessly for you you could wait the couple hours for the inside to not just ooze out and then enjoy some pie.

Pie-mush, ice cream bowls, and the spatulas of doom (for pies).

Or you could sabotage your pie into warm cobbler-like pieces to be put under ice cream and enjoy some of the best, most complicated ice cream topping, as Stephen put it.

Till the next successful disaster!

Kate