Best of Both Worlds?

I feel I’ve made the Miley Cyrus joke before…

But I’m actually tempted to try out this: Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal.

Although I won’t do what one commenter suggested and use steel cut oats. And I don’t even have the toddler excuse…

“There’s nothing like a supermodel making dessert with her kids in the kitchen.”

Amen to that.

From: Heidi Klum on Pumpkin Pie.

I wonder what Seal was up to. (Will resist reference to being “kissed by a rose.”)

Pie & Politics

OK, OK, OK: Sweet Potato Pie Already.

I tried to make a sweet potato pie once. Vegan. For a friend’s birthday. With disastrous consequences. (For the friendship, not the pie itself.)

I haven’t attempted one since. Mostly because it’s just not something I ate as a kid. I like sweet potato side dishes. (I feel like there’s something on the Food Network Web site with sweet potatoes and bananas that is insanely good. Either this — http://snurl.com/4q91g or http://snurl.com/4q928?)

But, pie? I think that thing with tofu was the only sweet potato dessert I’ve ever had. But…perhaps this would be a good time to try it again? As both an alternative to the (doubtless) scores of pumpkin pies I will make in coming months *and* as my own special way to be political?

Heckuva Headline

Root beer cake will have you floating on cloud 9.

And for good measure: Getting pie-triotic.

Cake Fixes Everything?

Bankers? What we need now is bakers.

I actually got a greeting card once that said “A great many things can be resolved with kindness, even more with laughter, but there are some things that just require cake.”

Best Kicker Ever?

“Ka-BOOM! Your brownies are in orbit.”

From: Baking in the Great Outdoors.

A Great Democrat Cook

Clothing Optional?

A relatively good primer on crust from the Gloucester Daily Times: Strap on that Apron, Perfect Pie Coming Up.

While the nude baking anecdote is clearly the draw here (I actually knew a guy once who didn’t think it was such a bad idea…but — seriously — how do you not burn yourself?)…but I *also* thought the “burning the shortening”-thing was interesting — I’ve never heard of that and I *always* make my shortening bits pretty small…and my crusts are usually pretty darn flaky. (Except maybe in recent history. But I was able to blame the tin.)

It also does my heart good that this guy is a Pyrex fan.

Happy baking!

In Today’s Pie-Related News…

Pumpkin (and Apple) Pie Imposters

And…A Bacon Lattice.

Congrats to KH on her first pie contest!

I’m sorry I didn’t have better advice…

But! Chicagoist also has tips: How to Enjoy the Bucktown Apple Pie Contest in 2009.