I love baking pies, and cookies and muffins!
My favourite kind of pie is raspberry pie (which I have actually never baked), but I also adore peach pie and a good old fashioned apple pie. For the longest time I have been searching for a nice pie plate. Mom and my mother in law were also searching to buy one for me and both came up empty handed.
Recently I decided that I need to become more spontaneous during the week and do more then work, go to the barn, make dinner, relax/play practice/go to brownies and sleep. Time is flying by and I need to make the most of it. So when our friend Allison decided to hold a Pampered Chef party at her house near St. Catherines, on a Thursday night, Mic and I decided to check it out! I really wasn’t planning on buying anything but once I got there and saw Allison’s beautiful pie plate (she loves making pies!) I had to buy one. So pampered chef got some of my money and I get a pretty stoneware pie plate and all was well!
That was until I got home and saw a value village bag on the counter and opened it to find a pie plate inside! Mom happened to go to thrifting and was on the lookout for a pie plate, found one and happened to give it to me on the same day I bought one. What are the odds of that?
So now I have 2 pie plates and lots of baking to do!
Left: The Pampered Chef pie plate
Below: The thrifted pie plate
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Ooh – I love love LOVE your Pampered Chef one! The thrifted one looks pretty unique, what a cool find.
One request – if you manage to perfect a recipe & technique for making pie crust, please share! I’m a little bit terrified of making my own pies from scratch because I’m not great at making any kind of baked goods that are a bit finicky. Most recently, I made some slightly-tough scones. I’m always on the look-out for baking tips.
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I am putting in a request for Pecan Pie!!! And pumpkin pie – over Christmas Tim’s Mom made the most amazing punpkin pie and I have a newfound respect for it. I am generally not a pie person but I really want to test out your new plates!
PS I think this post wins for the most amount of exclamation points in a blog post. Clearly you are very excited about pie right now!
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blehhh. I hate pies! Is there something in the value village one? Bananas perhaps? I may be seeing things, but that’s what it looks like.
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I think it’s apples – check out more pics on Flickr
haha, that is a coincidence! I loooove the pampered chef one – but I am incredibly partial. That value village one is so cute! and a lid? great idea. I’m going to check there for some for me!
Thanks again for coming! The more the merrier!
(I’m also trying to fill my life with out of the ordinary things…)
ohh I get it. I thought Kate had baked something in there!
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Pampered chef is awesome. I want everything they’ve got (but don’t have the budget for it). They are both lovely! Congrats on the pie plates.
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ok i need to see this value village one in real life cause i also thought there was something baked in there… well i thought it was mousse with marshmellows or something…
The one from Longaberger is good too.
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Laura- go to the flickr! Right under the “Recent Posts” at the top left.
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I love both of them!
I love thrifting!!! I just found a couple antique/vintage stores here in Guelph (just moved) and was so excited… held back on buying anything – for now!
The bright red colour is very pretty – I’m sure your pies will taste great it in!
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I want a pie plate!
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Thanks for all the lovely comments! I’ll have to bake some pies and take some pictures.
Leah- year I must be very excited about pies. But I do love using exclamation points, a bit too much. I will scale down.
Laura- I’ll let you know if I find the perfect crust recipe.
Thrifting is fun, but I’m don’t really have much patience for it.
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I sense some T-dale fair award winning pies coming from that Pampered Chef plate!
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Should you make more pie than you can eat…I’d be happy to share it with you…LOL
While I have a bias to the Pampered Chef plate, I think that your VV find is excellent! It is my favourite place to go treasure hunting! The best location (in my experience) – is Guelph. I always find the neatest stuff there!
Back to the PC pie plate – it should arrive this week,so hopefully you get to test it out shortly and LOVE it!
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