re: SUBMISSION Thread for PIE Challenge - Nov. 16, 2021

An After Though

Made Chicago Deep Dish "Pie" for dinner, so here's pictures after serving(and eating)

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More or less followed this recipe (Giordano's)

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Pizza dough ingredients:

3 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour
1/2 cup of yellow cornmeal
1 1/4 teaspoons of fine sea salt
1 tablespoon of granulated sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons of active dry yeast — the size of a standard packet
1 1/4 cups of warm water
4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted
About 3 tablespoons of olive oil for coating

Pizza sauce ingredients:

2 tablespoons of olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
1/2 of a red onion, minced
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of Italian seasoning mix
1/4 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes
3 cloves of garlic, minced
One 28-ounce can of unsalted, crushed tomatoes
1 teaspoon of granulated sugar
2 tablespoons of fresh basil, chopped

Toppings:

4 cups of mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese, grated
Additional toppings, pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushrooms, green & red peppers, black olives,

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My submission is Baked crawfish pies topped with lump crabmeat and a remoulade sauce

Hobo after seeing several of your submissions I feel like we need to be closer friends

looks very good brother

my dish is still in the oven as I'll likely submit the entry later

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since I shopped for lump crab meat the last few days, I can attest that you have $43 worth of crab meat on top of those pies

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is that what was so expensive? Hell I figured it was the crawfish. When it comes to these challenges I typically don’t even look at prices, I have something in mind and I just go with it

smoked softshell crab pie & lemon meringue pie




smoked some softshell crabs over cherry wood. Darn near impossible to find them now as I found 1 medium with appendages and the others had none when I bought them from the fish market




Cold smoked the crabs for 20-25 minutes. I video'd the smoker but can't get video to upload



Since the crabs were 50% cooked, I finished them in a butter with herbs, lemon wedge, garlic, and shallots


then made a lemon cream sauce with bacon , butter, and heavy whipping cream


stuffed it in a pie crust and baked it on 375 under done


side was asparagus, thick bacon, and a hollandaise sauce that didn't thicken



lemon meringue pie: 4 eggs, 4 lemons, can of condensed milk

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my quandary with regards to only posting one picture per entry in the voting thread

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Looks great Balze!

Another bunch of good looking dishes.

Here you go Darla

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would be unfair to you

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dont worry about all that its really not a big deal I just like messing. I used a app I been having pic stich, altho now its littered with adds n shite.

Just copy the image location on that one and post it

It’s complicated because I made way more of the eggplant and meat mixture than was used in the pie/tart. The rest I used for eggplant dressing for my husband, and some in the freezer for future eggplant dressing.

Also, because I was trying to keep it low carb, I made fathead dough for the crust, which is made of almond flour, mozzarella cheese, an egg, and cream cheese. If carbs aren’t an issue, other pie crust would be good.

I’ll come back later and add in details, okay?