Insufficient pie

[jethrien]

So usually Thanksgiving at my inlaws' involves far, far too much dessert. (One year, we had half a pie per person.) But through several different factors, I arrived this year with two pies to discover that only one more pie was coming. We would have my Tollhouse pie and my chocolate caramel nut pie and DG's pumpkin pie. Which is a completely rational amount of pie for fourteen people, but shockingly low compared to previous years. There was some worrying about perhaps insufficient pie. And then I spoke to my parents, who revealed that they had three pies, the exact same number, but for only four people.

That did it, DG and I decided. We needed more pie.

So I made a fourth pie on the fly with what happened to be in my mother-in-law's freezer. We ended up with cranberry-blueberry. I popped it in the oven as soon as dinner came out, and since my inlaws believe in a lengthy pause between dinner and dessert (to give you time to rally), there was enough time to bake and cool the Emergency Pie before they all hit the table.

Pie emergency! Time for emergency pie!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's notable that your mom-in-law had all the ingredients to enable you to whip up a pie at short-notice. But since this "pie emergency" was brought on by your own parents having three pies for only four people, maybe it was more a case of "pie envy."

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'd consider pie envy and pie emergency to be the same thing.

I'm really good at pie--I need butter, flour, and sugar and then something. I can improvise pretty well. And my mother-in-law is a good cook and keeps a reasonably stocked kitchen, so I knew there would be something I could use. Fruit, raisins, nuts, chocolate, eggs--it doesn't take much to fill a pie.