We won't go until we get some

Every year I see those fresh figs on the grocery shelf and wonder if I can make some kind of pie that no one has ever heard of. I love fresh figs. I have tried maybe six recipes I read on different cooking websites and the craving is never quite satisfied.  Today I trusted my instinct and made a figgy goodness that reminds me of my favorite discontinued Bath and Body Works scent, brown sugar and fig. Quartered the bucket of figs, about three cups, tossed them with fresh lime squeezings and waited while the lime did its job. I lovingly tucked those figs in my favorite cast iron skillet, and doused them with Courvoisier and a fist full of brown sugar. I only cooked them for five minutes because I didn't want the freshness to go out. I folded them into a batch of organic vanilla pudding and there was a ribbon of dotty pink love following every trace of my rubber scraper. Chilled in my favorite flaky layered crust. Voila. Bring us a Figgy Pudding, and bring it out here! We are going to eat this outside & sing christmas songs while we do it! Won't we? Friends? You do want to sing? Right...
ps. you should know figgy pudding is actually cake with boozy fruit, but pie with cognac figs is a vast improvement in my opinion.

Hungry Eyes

Here is a smattering of the Pie Pictures I took thinking I would post all about them, but am only now uploading. Feast your eyes.

fresh strawberry mint

 Independance Day Cherry, and Strawberry Rhubarb

This fresh Fig pie was nonsense good, I poured a vanilla bean custard over top of them. 

Sister In Law Mile High Apple Pie

Blackberry Crisp, we picked these ourselves!

Unfamilliar but not un family

Today the 10th of August a very dear friend has the occasion of "First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life" and so we shall mark this date with a Pie. This woman is entering in to uncharted water, a new and strange chapter, a land where no woman has gone....well okay, some of you have been here before, but nonetheless she is brave and fierce. Our hero requires a Pie that is as new and innovative, as unfamilliar as the journey she embarks upon...I present Apricot Rosecream Tart.
  "Gasp! What! Did I hear correctly? She didn't say..."
Yep. Ginger colored fruit with Rose flavored whip cream. And its on a tart crust I have never tried before. It may be a disaster, but I feel confident that it will be delectable and comforting.  Even though you have never eaten it, you will feel right at home with it. You will want to invite this pie to all your gatherings. Guess what else, the fruit in this tart was in the discard pile-half price cause its past its date.
  "Aren't you afraid?"
Not at all. I'll be sprinkling fairy dust on top and so all will be well with the world. If you have the honor of sharing this tart with this darling woman please make comments about how it is received by your mouth. Everyone will be wondering.