Eat It! Or Don’t. Piggy Pie.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S.

This is traditionally a day for stuffing our faces with all sorts of comfort food. I just read a statistic that says Americans consume over 3000 calories on Thanksgiving. That’s a lot of pie.

Don’t tell anyone, but pie is not my favorite dessert. If it doesn’t have frosting (butter-cream, not that cream cheese or whipped cream bullshit) I’m not a fan.

Despite my lack of love for pie, I am OK at making the traditional Thanksgiving pies. Pie filling is actually super easy to do. OK, it’s only easy because you mostly open up some cans and pour that into a pie crust.

Pie crust is something that I will never, ever, ever try to make from scratch. You remember my bread disaster?

My father in law requested cherry pie for tomorrow so I decided to give that a try. My plan was to use one of those pie crusts that you can just unroll and place on top of the filling. Like this.

My ideal cherry pie
(image from the google search)

When I tried to unroll the pie crust, it started to come off in chunks.

What to do? What to do?

I ended up using the pig cookie cutter I had and placed those little guys on top of the cherries. Then I egg washed them and placed cinnamon and sugar on top. Not to brag, but. I think the pie came out looking pretty good.