Shepherds Pie

Ingredients:

• 2 T olive oil
• 1 onion
• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 t dried parsley leaves
• 1 t dried rosemary leaves
• 1 t dried thyme leaves
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/2 t black pepper
• 1 T Worcestershire sauce
• 2 garlic cloves -minced
• 2 T flour
• 2 T tomato paste
• 1 cup beef broth
• 12 oz frozen mixed veggies, (Carrots, peas, corn)

• 3 large potatoes peeled
• 8 T unsalted butter – 1 stick
• 1/3 cup half & half
• 1/2 t garlic powder
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/4 t black pepper
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. Peel and roughly chop your potatoes, add them to water and allow them to boil. Cook the beef mixture.
2. Saute chopped onions in a pan on medium high heat. Add ground beef when onions are soft
3. Add your herbs & cook until beef is browned.
4. Add in your garlic and worcestershire sauce. cook for 30 seconds.
5. Add flour and tomato paste. Allow to cook for at least 1 minute to get rid of the flour taste.
6. Add beef broth and the frozen medley of veggies.
7. Simmer until mixture is thick.
8. Drain potatoes of the water if soft able to stick a fork cleanly through.
9. Add the butter, milk and salt/pepper, & cheese.
10. Add the beef mixture into a casserole dish and add the potatoes on top.
11. Bake at 350 until the potatoes are golden brown.
12. Sprinkle minced parsley on top for color.

Apple Cider Pie

Welcome back once again to the Pie Season. If you are new to our page, we celebrate pie season in prep for the holidays. We’re doing a recipe EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. for the month of September.

On a side note, Today is 9/11. We will never forget the men and women who were lost on that day, and will continue to pray to support those who lost loved ones. #neverforget

Ingredients:

• Double pie crust
• 3 lbs apples, peeled, cored and cut into smaller slices
• 2/3 cup cider
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1/4 nutmeg
• 3 T cornstarch

Directions:

1. turn the oven on to 425.
2. Prep the bottom crust in the pie pan, docking the pie dough. Setting the top crust to the side. (Freezer is best place to put the pie crust.)
3. In a pot, mix everything together beside 2 T cider and the cornstarch.
4. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring frequently until sugar is dissolved.
5. mix the remaining cider and cornstarch into the mixture and cook until dissolved.
6. Add the mixture to the prepped the pie crust. Add the top on and crimp the sides, cut three slits in the middle for venting.
7. cook for 55 minutes. If browning happens too quickly add a sheet of foil on top to prevent and then remove last 10/15 minutes.
8. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle sugar on top.

My favorite pie yet! come back to enjoy more recipes like this one.

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Chocolate Pecan Pie

Chocolatey, nutty, buttery flavor. What else would you need?

Ingredients:

• Blind Baked Pie dough
• 2 T butter, cold
• 2 oz unsweet chocolate
• 1/14 corn syrup
• 3/4 maple syrup
• 3 eggs
• 1 T coffee flavored Liquor
• 1 1/2 cup of pecans. halves, toasted.

Directions:

1. Blind bake pie dough in oven (425 F) with pie weights/dried beans, for 12 minutes, covering the outer rim with foil so crust does not burn. and then removing the foil after 12 minutes and continue baking for another 8 minutes
2. In a sauce pan, heat butter, chocolate, both syrups to a boil and whisking frequently. Continue to whisk frequently over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes.
3. Take off heat, allow to cool.
4. when cool, add an one egg at a time, mixing well in between.
5. Add the coffee liquor and pour the mixture into the baked pie dough.
6. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the center jiggles like gelatin.

Pecan pies are truly growing on me. If you liked this recipe, come back for more. I do a different pie recipe for EVERY DAY in the month of September. Fully welcome the fact that fall is right around the corner and the holiday season is too!

Strawberry-Blueberry Cobbler

Sorry, it’s so late for posting, but I did work today. Cobbler is still an amazing pie-like recipe, just easier.

Enjoy the Pie Season!

Ingredients for dough:

• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 T baking powder
• 1/4 t salt
• 6 T butter
• 1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans
• 1/2 T cinnamon
• 3/4 cup sour cream

Directions for the dough:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
2. In a food processor, add the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Pulse to blend.
3. Add butter in pieces and pulse until they are small pieces. Add to bowl and add in the rest of the ingredients. Mix them together well. Refrigerate until filling is mixed.

Ingredients for Filling:

• 4 cups strawberries, chopped.
• 4 cups blueberries
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 T flour
• Pinch of salt
• 2 t ground ginger.
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 2 T sugar

Directions for filling:

1. Dump everything, besides the 2 T sugar, into a bowl and mix and make sure everything is evenly coated.
2. Add the fruit mixer into a 9 x 13 baking dish.
3. Take the dough out of the fridge and rip pieces off and add to the top of the fruit mixer in the baking dish. Then sprinkle the remaining 2 T sugar over the dough pieces. Allow for some of the fruit mixture to peek through the dough.
4. Cook the cobbler at 350 for 50-60 minutes
5. serve with ice cream of your choice and enjoy (Allow to sit for 20 minutes

Come back for more recipes by yours truly!

Pumpkin Pie

Delicious and traditional. Cheers to Pie Season!

Ingredients:

• 9-inch pie (make/buy)
• 1 can Pumpkin Puree
• 1 can 12 oz evaporated milk
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar
• 2 t cinnamon
• 1/4 t nutmeg
• 1 t ginger
• 1/4 t cloves
• 1/2 t salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven
2. Whisk together all the ingredients into a smooth batter, set aside.
3. Put pie dough into 9 inch pie pan, put the batter into the pie and cook for 15 minutes
4. reduce the oven to 350 and cook for another 35-40 minutes or until center is set.
5. Refrigerate the pie until serving.

Black-Berry Pie

What day is it? Pie day 4! That’s what. Here’s a yummy berry pie for people who love fresh berries.

What is this you ask? Pie Season is the whole month of September, prepping you for the holiday season. Or you just love pie. It can be creamy, chocolately, fruity. Really anything you want in a pie can go into a pie.

Ingredients:

• Double Pie Crust
• 5 cups of drained blackberries
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1 t lemon juice
• 1/2 t lemon zest
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 4 t cornstarch
• 2 T of butter

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 425
2. Add all the ingredients except butter into bowl.
3. prep the pie pan, adding 1/2 of pie crust into the bottom, using a fork and all poke around the dough.
4. Add the mixture into the pie pan, and cut the butter up into cubes and put on top of the mixture
5. add the second half of the pie dough on top and crimp the edge to seal the pie, cut small vents in the top to allow steam to escape
6. bake for 15 minutes and reduce heat to 375 and cook for another 20-25 minutes.
7. Allow pie to cool and set for a couple of hours.
8. enjoy!

Berry pies are super easy to do and very delicious! If you want more of the berry taste, don’t add the cinnamon, but otherwise enjoy! Stay tuned for more pie recipes this month.

Shoo Fly Pie

Welcome to the month of September, or should i say Pie Season. For the entire month of September I give you delicious recipes for pies, cobblers, and other tasty pie related recipes in prep for the holiday season.

Ingredients:

• one 9 inch pie dough, (make/buy)
• 3/4 molasses
• 1 cup water (hot)
• 3/4 t baking soda
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 t nutmeg
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1/8 t salt / pinch

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees
2. Add your pie dough to the 9 inch pie pan, crimping the sides to make it look prettier.
3. Mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, & salt all together in a bowl. Crumble in the room temperature butter, until a nice cornmeal consistency appears.
4. Next you’ll want to combine molasses, water, egg and the baking soda. MIX well. Pour into the pie pan.
5. Add the flour combination onto the molasses mixture and stick into the oven for 15 minutes at 425
6. Lower the heat to 350 F and bake the pie for 20 minutes more or until the pie is set.

You wanted to know why it’s called Shoo-Fly Pie? Because during the early years of our country, the majority of baking was done outside. Flies would be attracted to the sweet sticky molasses, therefore be-gone flies.

Here’s the pie recipe I use every year – Pie Dough.

Sweet Potato Pie

Welcome Back to Pie Season. I post a recipe every day for the month of September! Get ready to prep for the Holiday season.

No shame in buying pre-made pie dough. I would do it too. I will link the recipe I use every holiday down below my recipe.- Check it out!

Ingredients:

• 2 Medium Sweet Potatoes
• 1 cup half & half
• 3 large eggs
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 t dark rum
• 1 1/2 t ground ginger
• 1 1/2 ground cinnamon
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/4 ground cloves
• pinch of nutmeg
• pinch of black pepper

Directions:

1. Make/buy your pie dough, add to a 9 inch pie pan, prick fork all over dough, add foil over pie dough and add pie weights or dried beans.
2. Bake pie dough with weights for 15 minutes at 425, reduce heat to 375 and continue to cook for another to 10-15 minutes. let pie dough cool completely.
3. Boil or bake sweet potatoes until tender. (Baking 400 in oven 1 hour, boiling, peel and boil till tender and about to mash.
4. Add Potato mash and the rest of the ingredients in a bowl or blender ( I have a hand blender i would use to make extremely smooth and well combined.
5. Add to sauce pan and stir constantly while mixture curing for about 2 minutes, and then add the mixture to the cooked pie dough and bake at 400 F until it is set in the center 25 ~ 30 minutes.
6. Allow to cool completely. Serve with whipped cream on top.

This recipe requires a bit more tools but is still delicious and definitely worth the wait. Stay tuned for more pie recipes

French Apple Pie

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 15 whole graham crackers
• 2 T breadcrumbs (toasted lightly)
• 4 large Apples (peeled, cored & chopped coarsely)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 T brown sugar
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1 T flour
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 1/4 t nutmeg
• 1/4 t cloves

Directions

1. butter 9 inch pan, Process the graham crackers into fine crumbs, all except two.
2. melt 6 T of butter, mix butter and graham crackers until evenly mixed. press crumb mixture into the pan firmly. Refrigerate for a couple of hours to set.
3. Mix the rest of the ingredients(except the butter, 2 graham crackers, & the breadcrumbs) and add to a baking dish. Turn your oven on 350 F and allow to bake for 5 or until the apples are soft.
4. Add the apple mix to the cooled pie crust. Melt the last of the butter and mix with the last 2 graham crackers and the bread crumbs and spread the mixture on top of the pie & refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.

Pie Season is among us. enjoy.