{"id":559,"date":"2016-02-14T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2016-02-14T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:54:05","slug":"pie-five-blueberry-with-cream-cheese-lattice-top-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Pie Five: Blueberry with cream cheese lattice top crust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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blueberries, lemon zest, lemon juice and sugar<\/p><\/div>\n

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the lattice was woven on a cardboard circle<\/p><\/div>\n

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the pie, fresh from the oven<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the fanciest pie I have made to date. \u00a0I am feeling strangely confident.<\/p>\n

I went out yesterday and purchased a food scale for baking; working on Pie Five merits a reward of some kind. \u00a0I also looked at rolling pins and baking cloths too, but snapped out of it and realized that for today, I only needed\u00a0a legit\u00a0food scale; I brought one home and proceeded to measure\u00a0out everything in grams.<\/p>\n

I relied entirely on the Spring Issue of Lucky Peach<\/a> for the recipe and the technique, and the pie came out far beyond my wildest expectations. \u00a0[There’s a bunch of pie wisdom\u00a0(Dana Cree<\/a> and others) in that issue that I intend to explore more fully.] \u00a0But it is dawning on me that if I am patient and if I actually try, I can make these things that I’ve always assumed\u00a0were beyond me. \u00a0I am learning to be in the moment as I work, and to be patient — to not rush to the finish line in the last moment, but to take my time. \u00a0There’s a tendency that I have to throw my hands up somewhere in the middle of the process and rush to the end. \u00a0I don’t know what is behind this.<\/p>\n

So I am psychoanalyzing myself as I bake, which is lovely way to come to wholeness. \u00a0I get to think about these things, and then eat pie. \u00a0This pie is delicious.<\/p>\n

Maddy wants me to try to bake a pie she saw on\u00a0Diners, Drive-ins and Dives that features\u00a0blueberries,\u00a0lemon, basil and goat cheese<\/a>. \u00a0So yes, I’m going to find that pie, and bake it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the fanciest pie I have made to date. \u00a0I am feeling strangely confident. I went out yesterday and purchased a food scale for baking; working on Pie Five merits a reward of some kind. \u00a0I also looked at rolling pins and baking cloths too, but snapped out of it and realized that for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-pies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}