Grape Pie?

Yessir, grape pie!

A local farm was having a Grape Escape weekend with you-pick grapes, so we headed down this morning.  None of us has ever picked grapes, so we figured it's worth a try, right?

It's super easy - a paring knife and a peck sized box and we were on our way.  The farm had concord and Niagara grapes, and we picked both, though mostly the concords.  They both have seeds in them, but were delicious.

We got home and it hit me that i had close to 10 lbs of grapes and no idea what to do with them.  I used my Google-Fu and whala - the first entry was Grape Pie!

isn't that handy?  Fits right into my Great Pie Experiment!  And we have a big dinner tomorrow, so I could go ahead and make 2 pies to take - one with Concord, and one Concord and Niagara mixed!

They look really nice - I did a double crust and crushed the top with beaten egg and sugar.  Forgot to put the butter inside the pie, but a lack of butter probably isn't the worst thing.  I halved the honey for the concord pie, the combo used sugar instead.

I tasted the overflow filling from both and they are delish!  It's very different - I'm used to either eating grapes or maybe grape jelly, but nothing else grape flavored.  And I have several more bags of frozen grapes in the freezer!  I used 5.5 cups for this recipe.

The Great Pie Experiment

So my husband loves pie.  Loves it.  And it's the only dessert he really enjoys eating - he will bypass almost any other dessert for a second helping of dinner.

And until the summer I couldn't make a pie.

Pillsbury was my go to crust and I usually only made a pumpkin pie once a year, for his birthday.  And he didn't eat the crust because he didn't like it.

So, feeling like i was perhaps lacking in the pie department I decided that if I would just commit to making 1 pie a week for a year, I would be a pie expert at the end of a year.  52 pies.  Can I do it?

Honestly, I should have started blogging about this when I started baking pies, but at the time I was busy and figured i'd catch up later...and I'd guess this is later :)

So far I've made:
Dutch Apple ( good)
Peach
Blueberry
Strawberry/ Blueberry

The crusts are getting better and the hubby is thrilled at my new venture.

So raise your fork!  It's pie time!