Comments on: Whoops: mistakes in the kitchen

By: NewTasteTester

NewTasteTester — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:17:04 +0000

Lol. Thanks for sharing. I was actually thinking of a “cheese” pie until I read your post.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:01:16 +0000

I did this recently too! I am glad I am not the only one.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:04:31 +0000

I love your site and I’m so glad you shared this little pie crust mishap, it has happened to me a few times!

By: Lelo

Lelo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:46:27 +0000

I love that you blogged this. If only I was so brave about my gardening failures this year, and there have been many.* FAIL!

Hey, at least you got a great photo out of it!

*Who the heck fails with zucchini?! ME!

By: MoM

MoM — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:38:18 +0000

So, dear daughter, I’ve never been able to “blind bake” a pie shell with good results. Mine do just like yours did, always raw on the bottom if I lined it. If you fill it with beans or rice they do get stuck! I freeze my pie shell and fork the sides and bottom many times over and then bake it, skipping the beans, rice, foil or what ever. I might have “saggy” sides once in a while but I’ve had better luck doing it that way…

By: Hillary

Hillary — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:13:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing about your mishap – this sounds like something I would do. And the photo is definitely very interesting! Cool texture.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:01:16 +0000

At least the picture looks cool!

By: Natty

Natty — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:14:14 +0000

I love foodblog posts like these. I believe that you’re really cookin’ when you screw things up from time to time. If we always followed “the rules” to the letter, we’d never learn what was optional, what was a good idea, what we absolutely must do or terrible-ness will ensue. And without failure, we never get those flashes of brilliance… or, perhaps “tastiness” in this context?

How do you make your pie dough? I’m a wuss when it comes to pie.

By: Beth M.

Beth M. — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:58:12 +0000

Once I decided to go to culinary school I began having a series of spectacular kitchen failures. The worst: I rushed a pie dough and popped it into the oven when it was way too warm. The result was a pie crust that literally MELTED off my pie, all over the bottom of the oven. Not pretty, and lesson learned. Butter and Crisco live in my freezer now!

By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:04:26 +0000

How about using rice, that works nice for me : ) Hope that helps