Pie are square.

I decided to make Strawberry pie today. Much to my disdain, after I had rolled out my 3-2-1 crust, one that I learned how to make from the book Ratio, I could not locate either of my pie dishes. It appears as though my dishes were hidden or "borrowed" (ah-hem, Michelle) during our last move. So I went with the next best thing, a square dish.

So we had very yummy square pie. It was my first made from scratch pie (and pie crust!) and I really like how I know what ingredients exactly went into it. It is amazing that just flour, sugar, shortening, strawberries and lemon juice alone could make such a tasty thing. The filling was not runny, the berries were gooey and soft, and the crust was light and so flaky. It did take about an hour to prepare (about 40 mins worth of chilling and waiting), but I see many more completely home-made pies in my future.

(Seen in the picture below is the pie... and a hammer. We are living in a happy little mess right now.)

So that was my major accomplishment of the day. I was decided to paint the closet this morning, but got side tracked by a 3 hour shopping trip and some serious bargain hunting. School starts next week so we decided that reviewing what we forgot over the summer is a good idea. We will get right on that tomorrow, probably.