Meat Pie

I had been wanting to bake a pie for a couple of weeks now.  I knew I was going to make a pie crust from scratch but I was torn between making a fresh fruit filling or selling out and getting the filling in can since my pie crust recipe is not a tested one. 

The more I thought about it, the more buying canned filling didn't seem like a good idea.  I mean there is nothing wrong with buying ready made stuff--it's just that I bake to learn so I didn't really have to think more about the filling.

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I kept going through my a litany of fruit and fruit combinations for my filling.

In the end, I decided on a meat pie. 

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I needed to get a pie pan, when I went to the store there was one on sale--a heart shaped one.

I'm not really a heart-shaped-pie kind of person, but as I didn't want to pay five times more for the round one--the heart came home with me.

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Inside my pie would be onions, beef, potato, carrots seasoned with salt and pepper.

beef on a bed of onions

Of course I could not close the pie without throwing in chunks of butter.

"I need closure"

I decided to do the classic crisscross pattern.  And as I'm not happiest with my pan shape, I thought I'll go extra corny.  I put a heart where the heart of the heart ought to be.

can you say 'tongue and cheek'?

I might not be too happy about the pie shape, but when the pie came out--I was ecstatic :)

home is where the 'heart' is

I love how golden the crust was.

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I had to leave for yoga class right after the pie came out of the oven, so I was not able to take photos of the sliced pie using my camera.  The next two are mobile photos.

open heart surgery

 How do you properly divide a heart shaped pie?  No idea.

late lunch

I love how the crust was flaky and creamy--melt-in-your-mouth creamy!

I can't wait for my parents to visit, I will definitely make some for them to try :)

i heart meat pie