My name is Richard. I was a chef for 14 years and love to cook. There’s a belief that if you do what you love, it won’t seem like work. Cooking has never seemed like work to me. There were times when the other chefs and I were hours behind pumping out orders but it still never seemed like work. The only person I ever met in the culinary field who always had a smile on her face was the baker girl. Now I understand why she always smiled. While we were slaving over hot grills and deep fryers, she was whipping up those tasty desserts that make everyone smile.
I love to make pies and other yummy desserts. Every holiday season my friends ask if I’m making my infamous apple and pumpkin pies. They know I am! While I feel that my favorite recipes are the best, I realize that what works for me might not work for others. I welcome everyone to submit their favorite pie recipe for inclusion on this site. If it weren’t for sharing recipes, the art of pie making would truly be lost with the passing of generations.
The more I researched pie recipes for this site, the more I realized that today’s overwhelming demand is for Quick & Easy pies that can be whipped together in 20 minutes or less. It seems like most of the recipes that called for homemade crust or making the filling from scratch were shared by full-time bakers who have more time to perfect a “labor of live” pie. Unfortunately I also ran across far too many recipes that looked like they were written by bloggers I refer to as “social media queens.” The recipes were likely written to increase their follower count by adding these eye-appealing claims like the pie requires “3 simple ingredients” or can be made in “3 easy steps.”
One thing you’ll find is that my recipes are very detailed. I’m a perfectionist and don’t want to leave out an important step for the sake of claiming the recipe can be prepared in 3 easy steps. Hogwash! I decided to create this site after studying several recipes that were outright deceptive. For example, one recipe claimed that a single step meant preheating the oven, placing the bottom crust in the pie plate, mixing the ingredients for the filling, adding the filling, and then adding the top crust. To me that’s 5 separate steps, not one marathon pie making step.