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Thanksgiving Pie-Making Begins!

The biggest baking days of my year begin in the most prosaic way possible: with paper and a calculator. How many pumpkin pies? How many “best-ever apple?” How many cups of sweet potato puree, brown sugar, and heavy cream do I need? How many pounds of apples, tablespoons full of molasses, trays of eggs? How much butter and leaf lard for my dough? Off to the markets I go!
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CurvyMama Pie-of-the-Month-Club Strikes Again!

The second installment of CurvyMama’s Pie-of-the-Month Club is baked and ready for pickup tonight! Last month, we gave our founding members a yummy sweet potato bourbon pie with sweet-and-salted pecans. This month, it’s Best-Ever Apple Pie (that’s the one that made me abandon my longtime indifference to apple pie). 
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Mmmm, Fall: Cranberry and Pear Pies

As you know, Art of the Pie’s Kate McDermott has been baking up a storm in my kitchen for the past couple of days. In June, when I first lured her to D.C. from Washington state to teach pie workshops, apricots piled up at my house for those sessions. This time, when she came back for fall workshops, the change in seasons left us awash in pears and cranberries. I confess that I had never had a pear pie–pea
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Pie Workshops Are Back!

Art of the Pie‘s Kate McDermott has returned to CurvyMama Pies’ kitchen in the Washington, D.C., environs to teach more pie workshops. You probably recall that I lured Kate here from Seattle for her first East Coast workshops last June. (If you missed my posts about that, you can catch up here, here, and here.) A Washington Post story about the workshops generated demand for more, so Kate f
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Sweet Potato Bourbon Pie with Maple-Candied & Salted Pecans

Remember that yummy sweet potato pie I bragged blogged about the other day? I promised you I would post the recipe, and CurvyMama always keeps her promises. So here it is.
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CurvyMama’s Taking Thanksgiving Orders!

We are excited about making your Thanksgiving pies! We’ve posted a new Thanksgiving pie menu and special order form for the most pie-crazy day of the year. The door is open for orders! Since we are such a small operation, we will need to have your orders by Saturday, Nov. 17 so we can stock up, prep in time for the big baking day. Pies can be picked up in Bethesda on Wed., Nov. 21.  
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Pie-of-the-Month Club: Sweet Potato Bourbon

Tonight was the first pickup for the new CurvyMama Pie-of-the-Month Club. This month’s selection was sweet potato bourbon, with maple-sugar pecan crumble. Here’s a photo, with the recipe to come soon:
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The Best Apple Pie Ever

CurvyMama has confessed this to you before: I’m not the biggest apple pie fan. Go ahead and say it again; I’ve heard it all before: How can you not like apple pie? What’s wrong with you? Everyone likes apple pie! I’ve suffered the slings and arrows of my unpatriotic indifference to the all-American pie. But I am here to tell you that I’ve come up with an apple pie recipe that made even m
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Rinds And All: Shaker Lemon Pie

I had never heard of Shaker Lemon Pie until recently. Then, all of a sudden, I kept hearing it mentioned by pie-baking friends. Fascinated by a citrus pie that includes the pith and rinds, I resolved to try it. A rainy late-summer evening offered me a nice opportunity. A longtime neighbor is moving away, and another neighbor and I wanted to bid her farewell and hear about her plans. The colors and flavors of this pie
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You Know You Need It: the Pie-of-the-Month Club!

CurvyMama Pies is delighted to announce the debut of her Pie-of-the-Month Club! I hope you are excited at the prospect of getting a pie with the turn of each calendar page, another chance to see how the changing seasons produce new surprises tucked inside a flaky crust. We think it’s a great idea, and we hope you do, too! I didn’t exactly have the idea; it had me. A particularly pie-crazy neighbor pu
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