National Pie Day is only 22 days away. Will you be ready?
SacPie's first annual Pie Night Party will include sweet and savory pies of all shapes and sizes. Anything stuffed and baked in an unleavened dough envelope qualifies as "pie." We will have a pie-making demo for any fearful and curious bakers among the guests. There will be salads and drinks, recipe swapping, a pie exchange, and a pie contest. Not a pie-eating contest, but a pie-tasting contest, with a growing number of categories. Best Pie to Eat All By Yourself In the Middle of the Night, Easiest Recipe, Weirdest Ingredients, et cetera...And I think we will have a winner in every category.
Almost as soon as I announced the Pie Night Party, the invitees expressed excitement about it. Some confided that they had lost touch with the art of making good crust and are motivated to re-learn. Others expressed a nuttiness for pie. Still others said they had recipes they'd been wanting to try.
Winter is a good time for a Pie Night Party - a warm kitchen filling the house with enticing aromas, eating something delicious that is still warm as you spoon it into your mouth, people gathered in a comfortable space on a chilly night...These all seem like ingredients for a successful party, and pie is the host and guest of honor.
I still casting about for more entertainments - ones that include, or at least don't interfere with, eating - so if you have any ideas, I invite you to share them with us. As SacPie's inaugural Pie Night, we want to get it right and make everyone want to come back for more. Perhaps you should get busy planning your own Pie Night (I won't be able to fit everybody at my place). What will make your Pie Night uniquely yours?
See what the American Pie Council is doing to promote Pie Day at piecouncil.org.
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