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No Bake Chocolate Mousse Pie

December 21, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

For the countdown to Christmas, a super easy no bake chocolate pie recipe! This pie has the best chocolate mousse ever as a filling, a par-baked pie crust, and keeps perfectly in the fridge for several days. I love all kinds of chocolate pies at the holidays (this chocolate chess pie is another huge hit!), and this one is a huge favorite!

Welp. Christmas time is here.

I'm sure everyone in the world is thinking and talking about and writing the same "what a strange holiday" lines, and it's true, everything is strange. It seems like lots of people are kind of used to the strange at this point; we know nothing will be like it is normally but that doesn't stop us from wanting it, at least not for me.

The endless back and forth of hard decisions with no clear answer, hurt feelings, fake news, and on and on and on is getting to us as a culture, and some of the best "answers" I've heard for how Christmas will go down this year is somewhere along the lines of "the same but way less."

This no bake chocolate pie recipe is 100% "the same but way less." It's a really, really good recipe for chocolate pie, and it's really, really easy. There's nothing to do besides bake a pre-made pie crust, whip some cream, add chocolate, and chill while it chills.

I couldn't help myself.

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Chocolate Chess Pie

December 13, 2017 by Lindsay 2 Comments

Tis the season to make a pie so delicious you may or may not consume 2 pieces in twelve hours just to be sure it was that good.

It was, promise.

Ok so this pie. Vague origin story. I actually didn't know what a chocolate chess pie WAS, but this local grocery/bakery that we frequent makes them around the holidays and they always looked really enticing in pretty bakery boxes. Then I ended up with a few extra pie crusts after Thanksgiving (my apple pies didn't require a top crust because I didn't have as many apples as I thought, long story), and I knew I needed a new Christmas pie. Enter: Chocolate Chess.

The first step was to determine what that actually was, which is an important step in learning to cook something. Ha. I learned that this is a flourless pie (the filling, not the pie crust), super chocolate-y, almost pudding-like on the inside, with a sugar crust on the outside that forms naturally during the baking process. ...

Heirloom Tomato Galette with Burrata

August 21, 2017 by Lindsay 1 Comment

I had an incredibly hard time spelling that title.

Ok so great news. It's Eclipse Day! You're maybe taking part of the day off work. You maybe have some fun plans. You maybe...have some produce from this weekend that needs a plan?

We are full up on tomatoes around here; my grandparents grow a ton and we have them fresh, we have them canned (hail young grandparents with time on their hands), we have VATS of salsa. I'ts not a bad problem to have at all, and I've been loving having fresh tomatoes in some form every day.

I've seen galettes all over the interwebz for years now, and while I don't do a ton of pastry I do like the idea of a veg-filled free-form pie oozing with garlic and cheese. I mean. Because of course. So this was the year! I made this simple pie crust in the food processor and used half of it (meaning there can be something else made with pie crust in my life soon), stuffed it to the brim with tomatoes, garlic, and BURRATA. You could 100% use fresh mozzarella or any other shredded cheese you like, but the creaminess from the burrata was wonderful with the flaky crust and bright tomato flavor.

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Apple Pie

November 15, 2016 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Step 2 in our make-ahead Thanksgiving Dessert Trying New Things in 2016!

It's a working title.

Anyway, pie! I made us pie. Specifically, I made apple pie that can be frozen, baked from a frozen state, and an all-butter pie crust made in the food processor. It was easy, tasted great, and you can literally make this today to bake next Thursday and no one will be the wiser. There are a few items such as turkey, gravy, and fresh veggies that obviously need to be made on the day of your big holiday meal, so I'm all about listing the things that can be made ahead with no sacrificing of flavor or quality. Desserts are almost all great if made a few days in advance, and this is tricky in that you make it in advance but bake it on the day of (after everything comes out of the oven, while you're eating your turkey), so it fully tastes fresh and warm and cozy. Everyone needs a little bit of cozy, right?

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All-Butter Food Processor Pie Crust

November 14, 2016 by Lindsay 6 Comments

Tis the season, whether we like it or not.

I can't believe it's officially "the holidays." I guess it comes with Halloween, or the first day of fall, or the months that end in brrrr, but now that Thanksgiving is LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY, it's high time we get cracking on our meal planning, right?

I'm not a big dessert-maker; there are many in my family that can out-bake me by a million. Mac and cheese is my family meal go-to, but I wanted to try out a few easy shortcuts for pie this year. The first is pie crust in a food processor. I'm a massive fan of not exerting any effort when it comes to baking, and wanted something between store-bought pie crust and anything involving a pastry cutter.

So here it is! This version is made in the food processor with all butter and one recipe makes 2 crusts. So, you can make one pie with a top and bottom crust, or 2 pies that don't need a top. The crust can be made in advance and kept in the fridge for a few days, or made wayyyyy in advance and frozen until you need it. Easy + versatile + butter. I win.

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