Post Punk Kitchen Forum

We made the pumpkin cheesecake for the first time this weekend. Pure bliss! It was totally worth paying a HUGE amount & having to order the pumpkin puree online.

as i mentioned above, i'm allergic to peanuts + all nuts so your suggestion won't work for me :( but maybe for someone else :)

I think the book is still worth it for the crusts, fruit pies and other bits and pieces (chocolate truffle tart!). There are a bunch of things in there that I can't make (banana allergy), but there's even more that I can and do make all the time.

thanks y'all, i requested an inter-library loan and the book is on its way to me! i look forward to seeing it in person!

um yeah, i am totally buying this. i requested an interlibrary loan but i got a chance to flip through it at the bookstore earlier today. isa and terry totally had me at 'blueberry hand pies.' for this recipe alone, i will buy the book!

Oops! I guess I should have checked this thread in the last two months! Probably irrelevant now, but I subbed 2 Tbs of the soy milk for bourbon (more if you like it more boozy), and added 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the mixture before pouring it into the crust. It got so fudgy and delicious.

hi everyone. my hubby's birthday is coming up soon and i was thinking about making the old-fashioned chocolate pudding pie on page 163. have any of y'all made that? did it turn out super yum? everything firm up a-okay? i'm intrigued because the pie does not use silken tofu or agar agar!

i have a peanut + all tree nut allergy so i was going to sub soy milk (regular and not unsweetened i assume) for the almond milk.

It's the best! Totally perfect. Subbing the milk will make zero difference. Just use whatever you have.

ZOMG. Why did I wait so long to make the famous Strawberry & Rhubarb Crumb Pie?!
I got some fresh rhubarb from a coworker's garden, so I finally had the perfect reason to make it - and, wow, I almost feel like calling in sick just so I can stay home and eat pie all day. It is DIVINE.

This may be a dumb question, but: Would the amount of fruit needed change if I used those teeny wild blueberries Trader Joe's sells instead of normal-sized blueberries?

I Googled a bunch of recipes for both blueberry and wild blueberry pies, and it seemed like generally the wild blueberry recipes called for more cups of fruit than the straight-up version, but the amount ranged pretty widely in both types of pie, so I'm not feeling very confident about guessing.

Thanks!

Yeah, if it's measured by the cup and not weight then add an extra cup or so. Extra berries never hurt no one!

Interesting. To me wild blueberries are normal and the giant American ones are pretty new in shops (sold as large blueberries). I've never adjusted the amount of berries (at least not consciously) in anything I make. Though, I have to admit that I'm shamefully underutilising this book because wow! American pies are really huge!