All posts for the month April, 2010

Happy Blueberry Pie Day!

The best part of Mr. Wonka’s three course meal was blueberry pie.

Pie Review: Sweet Life Pâtisserie – Apple Pie

Let me preface this: Sweet Life Pâtisserie is one of, if not the best, places for dessert in Eugene, Oregon. I love them, so when I was in Eugene for the Conan O’Brien show, I had to stop and try their pie, because, for all the times I went there in college, I never had [...]

Pie Cartoons: Yogi and Boo Boo, Pie Pirates

This is great – classic pie on the windowsill, dog in the yard plot. I love it. But as I think about it, there’s two things that don’t work with this plot: 1. Bears vs. Dogs? I think bears would have their way. 2. I like how the people in the house are completely oblivious [...]

Review: Fred Meyer – Cherry Pie

I was at Fred Meyer shopping for dinner and a pie caught my eye from afar. It’s rhubarb season, and strawberry rhubarb sounded excellent! So I bought a strawberry rhubarb pie and took it home to share with my wife and my folks, who we had over for dinner that night. Somehow, after I had [...]

Mini Pie Maker – For the Lazy Pie Lover

  UPDATE: If you’re looking for a Personal Pie Maker, check out this Personal Pie Factory available on ThinkGeek. Do you love pie? But don’t know how to make it? Tired of struggling with “dough” and “filling” and “ovens”? Struggle no longer! The good people at Tempo have reduced the fine art of pie-making to [...]

Piet Check-In – 2 Weeks, 4 lbs.

As some of you may remember, I’m on a “piet“. My piet program consists of ONLY eating pie as a dessert and saying “no thanks” to any inferior sweets, such as cake. I’ve stuck to the program pretty strictly, abiding by the rules I set forth in my initial piet post. Results: My weight has [...]