I haz a pie! Reader tychabrahe kindly made a delicious pie which, to my delight, she dropped off yesterday in Chicago on her way to Indiana. It is—soon to be “was”—a “Chocolate Brandy Alexander pie. It is a confection of marshmallow and whipped cream and chocolate flavored with brandy and creme de cacao.” The crust is also made of Oreo crumbs. Incredibly rich and luscious:
I made a bit of a mess removing my large slice, but here’s a cross-section. I’m sure that, if you ask nicely, she’ll furnish the recipe in the comments. Meanwhile, excuse me while I have my Christmas indulgence:
And reader Simon just went to a good restaurant in Chicago, taking this shot of the menu—a refreshing change from all the food “trigger warnings” you see these days. It is indeed a useful warning, but one that should send the allergic away from the restaurant:
Who says that PCC(E) is hard to please?
Will work for pie!
Combining pie and cake, the piecaken, makes pie worse and cake better.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/125925-piecaken-combines-pie-and-cake-and-just-put-every-other-dessert-on-earth-to-shame
Jerry had some posts on “pake” 3 or 4 years ago. Including, IIRC, some cuppakes.
The term piecaken is new to me.
More like 4.5 to 5.5 years ago. Type “pake” in the search box.
My goodness, how time does fly. Thank you, Jerry, for so many years of good reading.
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I have to say, I object to that menu warning. It is not that difficult to make dishes that people with food allergies can eat, it is just a question of wanting to make sure that you do not cross-contaminate your dishes. It is obvious that this place simply does not want to.
Disclaimer: my daughter is allergic to peanuts. There are plenty of restaurants where she can eat. It just takes a bit of an effort on the restaurants’ part.
I will avoid any restaurant that says there might be unnoticed “rocks” in the food!
Vitalist!
You need minerals in your diet. just like Sophisticated Philosophers need rocks in their socks!
I was in Black Angus (an upscale chain steakhouse) a number of years ago and found a twisted metal shard in a chocolate-chip-cookie-baked-in-a-small-frying-pan. I think the dessert was taken off the bill. I probably could have raised more of a fuss except the cookie was baked from a mix, which I knew, because I worked for a foodservice wholesaler who also happened to be the manufacturer of the mix.
That pie looks delicious, tychabrahe! Do, please, give us your recipe! 🙂
A bit of grit in clams and mussels is expected, and I have on a couple of occasions found tiny pearls in my oysters. Do those count as “rocks”?
Sometimes a rock sneaks in with beans or lentils and may get missed while cooking. And often sand and grit come with bivalves.
To me a rock is big–the things in beans or lentils are stones. I guess usage varies geographically.
I think the PCC(E) is addicted to pies as Hili is to ham.
I grew up in the Midwest where pies were sliced into 6 pieces, which is as it should be. When I moved to the east coast, I discovered to my horror that pies came in 8 slices or even a blasphemous 10.
Your slice was not “large” PCC(E). It appears that you took a normal slice and then maybe “trimmed up” the edge a bit in the interest of obtaining a good cross-sectional photo. 🙂
Any pie cut into more than 6 slices should come with a trigger warning. Yalies, can I get some help on this vital issue of social injustice?
Real cross-section photographs use scale objects. For example, quarrymen.
Therefore pies need to be made on a larger scale. (Unless someone has a source of smaller quarrymen-for-scale.)
Smaller quarrymen-for-scale are readily available, and at reasonable prices (they can be reused for pie after pie).
I couldn’t find any equivalent British quarrymen, but I think I know where they are. They have certainly been doing their jobs, somewhere.
And a new depth is plumbed with an “Adult” section for OO-gauge figures.
Aha! A post that lets me add an off topic comment. The Quarrymen evolved into the Beatles. Yesterday (12/24) most of the Beatles discography was finally made available for streaming on Spotify, Amazpn, etc. An xmas present for all of us music lovers (well, many of us).
About noon Pacific time I found out and went to my Spotify (user ngcart) and sure enough, they were all there and nobody had noticed: each of hundreds of songs had fewer than 1000 hits, or plays. Today I checked again at 3pm and every song has between 1/2 million and 1 million plus plays.
So I spent last night creating a “British Invasion Faves” playlist that has 235 songs from the Animals to the Zombies. Yay xmas!
Actually, I did know who the Quarrymen were – and looked for a model railway hoarding advertising a Beatles gig. It’s a rare year that the Quarrymen don’t come up in some quiz or another.
I think pies should be sliced in FOUR pieces. If they’re sliced in more, I’ll invariably try to get another piece if I can get away with it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJObglpL9A&list=RDqBJObglpL9A#t=22
This guy singing this can almost (but not really) make a believer of me.
sorry- let’s try again:
Jonas Kaufmann singing Minuit Chrétien:
https://youtu.be/qBJObglpL9A
Makes a believer outta me — a believer that religious faith has long served as a font of inspiration for musical genius. Which is why I’m a militant latitudinarian when it comes to religious music.
And I just discovered that the genius, Adam, who wrote this ( Cantique de Noël), is the same guy who wrote the music for the ballet, Giselle.
I am not being a pain in the ass when I ask about tree nuts in my food. This is not a good example of what you call a “trigger warning”. I came as close to dying as one can by eating a dish with unsuspected walnuts–ICU, ventilator, chest tubes.
You are indeed lucky that you don’t have to worry about any food that you eat outside of what you prepared yourself may actually poison and kill you.
Your generalization isn’t appropriate. I am not talking about an upset stomach.
Otherwise, love the website.
That condition must be miserable to live with. I bet you are a pretty damn good cook though, driven by necessity. Best wishes this holiday season.
I’m not usually huge on desserts. But no fair showing a cross-section photo of tychabrahe’s scrumptious-looking pie, Jerry, unless you’ve brought along enough to share with everybody.