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Chocolate Banana Cream Pie Squares

by Jillian Bedell March 12, 2013

In 1999 we threw our first party as a couple. We all lived safely and sound in the on-campus dorms that year. So when an older friend asked us to house-sit in a nearby country town, we were ecstatic. We went grocery shopping, stocked up on booze and movies, and settled into a very cozy [...]

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Chocolate Pecan Pie

by Jillian Bedell November 20, 2012

Pie is really having a moment. Am I right? As a nation, we’ve revisited cupcakes, experimented with cake pops, gotten cozy with red velvet and all went bananas for salted caramel everything. I think now we’re in the midst of a pie Renaissance. Pie is humble. It has working class roots. In the movies scrappy, [...]

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Coffee “S’mores” Pie

by Jillian Bedell July 16, 2012

Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of America on March 12, 1912. On September 15, 1985, I joined their illustrious ranks, as a member of Troop 207. Those early days of scouting were character-building, they said. Mostly I was bored, and wished I could bring a book. Forced to craft an orange, vinyl sit-upon sitting in [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Frito Pie Grilled Cheese (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell July 6, 2012

Notes: You don’t have to be from the American Southwest to have been exposed, by now, to the insanity that is Frito Pie. In its simplest, trashiest form, a “Frito Pie” is made of a bag of Fritos corn chips split lengthwise, ladled with swampy beef chili, and sprinkled with shredded cheese. The heat and [...]

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Tomato Pie

by Jillian Bedell April 16, 2012

When does a vintage recipe require revision, or reimagination, and when is it perfect as is? This is the question I asked myself as I unpacked the pie my mother-in-law made on Sunday. We had spent a gorgeous afternoon up the coast in Rockland, strolling down Main Street, popping into shops and galleries, and having [...]

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Moody’s Diner

by Malcolm Bedell February 29, 2012

Ask anyone from away about iconic Maine road food, and the conversation will turn, inevitably, to Moody’s Diner in Waldoboro. Part of the reason for the legendary diner’s fame is a simple matter of location; the plum US Route 1 location means that nearly every single tourist on their way up the coast to attend [...]

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Classics: How to Make an Apple Pie

by Jillian Bedell August 11, 2011

On this bright, clear afternoon, there is a pie cooling in the window. Yesterday, before the rain, I went to the tree and plucked ripe apples from their branches, squishing already fallen fruit with my bare feet. I filled a wooden bowl with the sweet-tart orbs. These are imperfect apples; they have brown spots and [...]

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Ancho Chili Pumpkin Pie

by Malcolm Bedell November 24, 2010

My sister, a transplant to New Mexico and master pie baker, uses ancho chili by the handful. We, having transplanted from New England to Mexico/Mexico and back again, also tend to use it a lot in cooking, particularly in Mexican dishes and in chili. Anchos are just dried poblanos, and they’re not particularly hot…they just [...]

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The Blackbird Baking Company of Maine

by Malcolm Bedell August 31, 2010

The Blackbird Baking Company of Maine doesn’t have a retail space. They don’t even have a website. But what this “virtual bakery” does have is a very loyal following, which grows each day organically on Facebook. The process for shopping for your pie is simple: follow the Blackbird Baking Company on Facebook, and you’ll get [...]

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