Thistle's Folly Pie (food!)

[thistlechaser]

These strawberries are becoming a problem.

Having eaten more bowls of them yesterday, I noticed they were starting to head towards not being good anymore. I'd have to finish them all today if I wasn't going to waste them.

So tired of strawberries.

Driving home, I thought about the comment someone left on my previous post: Make them into a pie! Mmm, pie. So I stopped at the supermarket and grabbed a pre-made graham cracker crust. My thought had been to just toss the strawberries in, the put a little whipped cream on top... but that's not very pie-ish. The comment-leaver had said to add... something... to make it more pie-like, but I was far from any computer so couldn't check what.

What would bind fruit in a pie and be pie-like? Hmm, jello! BLECH jello! Hooves ftl. But... pudding! Pudding would rock, no? Checking that section, I spotted cheesecake flavored (sugar free) pudding! That'd be perfect!

Came home, made it, poured it into the crust, dumped a bowl of cut berries on top.

Paused, realized the problem: Now I'd need to eat two more bowls of berries AND a whole pie! In one day! (Unless though some magic berries stay better longer when placed atop a pie...)

I tried the pie just now and it's less than the sum of its parts. I have no idea how that works. The crust is yummy, the pudding is yummy, the berries are fine, but together it doesn't work at all. And somehow putting whipped cream on it made it worse.

Darned you, cooking! *fist shakes* That should have worked! You make no sense!

Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Silly Thistle.. freeze them. :)

I know my mother used to mix sugar in with them and then freeze the things. My sister and I used to LOVE spending Saturday mornings before the cartoons, chiseling out yummy strawberries from blocks with spoons.

You might Google if there's something that needs to be done for them, but that's what I remember my mother doing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I ended up freezing the rest of them, yep! I'll have to make a smoothie or something once the weather warms up. :D

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

do it like sweet and sour sauce, with berries, water, sugar, and corn starch :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good idea!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

XD You and your adventures in cookery...it is more full of peril than an average RPG venture! I see another poster helpfully left you a recipe for strawberry glaze. But most supermarkets sell little packets of strawberry glaze right by the boxes of strawberries.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think I'm getting less XP than in RPGs, too. At the very least, I'm not leveling up very fast! :P

don't hate!

[evilpaul.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Two things I wanted to suggest to you...

First, if you've ever tasted a soda, be aware that they are more sour than an overly acidic dry wine. There's just also a buttload of sugar (or aspartame) there to balance it and make it taste sweet.

The same is true of any good pie. You've probably heard of strawberry-rhubarb pie. Rhubarb is horrendously sour (and its leaves are poisonous+sour with oxyalic acid). But when you toss in some sugar to sweeten it and some pectin (or enough pectin'y berries to thicken it) you get a delicious pie. The key is the balance to get excessive sweetness and balance it back to moderately sweet with sourness from something like lemon juice.

Also, go with tapioca or arrowroot over corn starch or flour to thicken desserts. They serve cold much better.

I had a second thing, but it's slipped my mind, so maybe I'll remember it and post it tomorrow.

Re: don't hate!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good ideas! Thanks!