Living The Pie Life

Milwaukee is no slouch when it comes to pie.  The metro area is filled with diners, cafes, bakeries and other purveyors of fine pies. In fact, I once ate a slice of pie every day for a full month and never went to the same place twice.  Amid all of the fabulous pie palaces in Milwaukee, two stand out for the quality of their pies and their proximity to each other:  Cafe LuLu and Honeypie Cafe, which are located about a half mile from each other in Bayview. Cafe LuLu, located where South KK, Howell and Lincoln avenues intersect is…

We have had a very mild fall, as everyone in Wisconsin knows by now.  Warmer than usual temperatures, and little rain has many of us thinking about a prolonged summer.  Outdoor recreation is still in the biking and running mode, with few thinking of skis and snow shoes.  As I walk the streets of Milwaukee I see people wearing shorts and sandals and T-shirts, as though it were mid-summer. As a long time Milwaukeean who grew up in San Diego, I can relate to this.  Nevertheless, I find myself wishing fall would hurry up and get here.  That’s because I…

As we head into fall, most of us start to think about warm and tasty comfort foods. Pie is surely among the best of comfort foods, and savory pies, in particular, inspire me as the temperatures drop, the air becomes crisper and the smell of falling leaves permeates the air. With this in mind, I prepared two savory pies over the past week: a Tomato Leek Pie and a Shepherd’s Pie. The Tomato Leek Pie is extremely easy to make and quite tasty. You begin with a pastry crust in the bottom of your pie plate. Then you place some sliced…

Greetings, and welcome to Living the Pie Life. In this and future postings I will be celebrating all things pie. Baking, pies, eating pies, homemade pies, bakery pies, diner pies, fruit pies, cream pies, savory pies, pot pies – they’re all open topics here. Pie road trips, pie in popular culture, pie in history, pie wisdom. You name it. If it’s about pie, it has a home right here. So if you have a favorite recipe or restaurant you want to share with me, by all means let me know about it. Or if you have a favorite story about pie, I’d…