The Portland Tribune will have a story about Portland’s growing pie-culture in next Friday’s edition. They’ve been interviewing and photographing a slew of important players in this growing movement. I provided my perspective, but I wanted to expand on it here. I’m new to the scene, so keep in mind that I’m speaking to this [...]
All posts for the month March, 2010
Is P-Town Becoming Pie Town?
Posted by Joel on March 19, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-history/is-p-town-becoming-pie-town/
Mad Pientist: Shepherd’s Pie
With all the talk about Shepherd’s Pie lately, I decided maybe making one would help me understand it better. I didn’t use a specific recipe, but I borrowed the idea of using Guinness and cheese from Kells (which I just recently wrote about). I heard that a friend of mine makes a version of this, [...]
Posted by Joel on March 17, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-recipes/mad-pientist-shepherds-pie/
When Irish Pies Are Smiling
Happy St. Patrick’s Day kids. I think tonight I am going to make an attempt at cooking a Shepherd’s Pie… I’ll let you know how it goes. We’ll find out if I can make it sliceable and pie-like. In the meantime, here’s a link to a few good looking Irish-style pie recipes: http://www.littleshamrocks.com/Irish-Pie-Recipes.html. I think [...]
Posted by Joel on March 17, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-recipes/when-irish-pies-are-smiling/
Boom, Roasted: Why Pie is better than Cake
Allie over at Hyperbole and a Half: blog of indescribable awesomeness couldn’t have answered and illustrated the reasons why pie beats cake any better. Read her post here. Bravo, Allie!
Posted by Joel on March 16, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-comics/boom-roasted-why-pie-is-better-than-cake/
Kells Irish Festival – Shepherd’s Pie
This isn’t an official pie review, one, because I’m not really sure that this should count as Shepherd’s Pie, and two, it was at a festival, so it may have been watered down. Here’s a question, and I don’t know the answer because I’m NOT a pie expert: if there’s little to no crispiness in [...]
Posted by Joel on March 16, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-reviews/kells-irish-festival-shepherds-pie/
Pie in Pop Culture: Applepious Revisited
I wrote a post about Stephen Colbert being “applepious” a while back, and Tim wrote in with a good point about an alternate definition of applepious: “I believe that “applepious” refers to the holier-than-thou view of the world of personal computers held by Apple Mac computer owners towards all other makes of PCs. Their disdain [...]
Posted by Joel on March 13, 2010
http://www.makemesomepie.com/pie-in-pop-culture/pie-in-pop-culture-applepious-revisited/
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