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Key Lime Pie

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One of Mike’s favorite desserts is Key Lime Pie.  When he went to the store last week (he runs by the store after work often) he picked up ingredients for the pie and left them on the counter.  I took it as a not-so-subtle hint that he wanted a piece of Key Lime Pie in the near future.

The best part about Key Lime Pie is it is super quick and easy to make — but seems much more fussy.  It’s literally a 20 minute recipe and most of that is baking time!

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Key Lime Pie
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 1 prepared graham crust
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • ½ cup key lime juice
  • 4 egg yolks
  • dash of green food coloring
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375. In a medium bowl, beat together the egg yolks, key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and the food coloring. Pour into the graham crust. Bake for 15 minutes. Refrigerate before serving for at least 2 hours.

 

Homemade Cherry Pie

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We just returned from spending a week with our favorite family — The Kilmartin’s — on a week-long vacation in Michigan.  We rented a house a block from Lake Michigan and enjoyed hours at the beach.

One of our adventures was cherry picking.  We went to Jollay Orchards by St. Joseph, Michigan and rode on a hay ride back to the sour cherry trees to pick.  None of us had ever been cherry picking before and we — including the kids — quickly filled two buckets with fresh cherries.  Even the Kilmartin’s youngest, Cara, was in on the action.

Luckily, the orchard had a pitting machine so we had the cherries pitted and then took them back to our house and I threw together a cherry pie.  I had to substitute a bit from a traditional recipe because we didn’t have lemon juice, but the pie turned out to be delicious.

Since we were on vacation, I didn’t make the crust from scratch — opting to cheat and use the packaged crusts.  But if I would have been home, with all of my flour, baking soda, and the like I would have made Dorie Greenspan’s pie crust.  It’s the only one I’ve ever made successfully!

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Homemade Cherry Pie
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 5 cups fresh sour cherries, pitted
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 heaping tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, cornstarch, juice, and vanilla to form a paste. Add the cherries and coat.
  2. Pour the cherry mixture into the bottom crust of the pie and then cut the top crust into strips to form a lattice pattern. Brush the lattice with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
  3. Bake at 425 for 45 minutes.