Friday, September 11, 2009

Marshmallow Mermaid Madness

As the weather cools off and the idea of firing up an oven feels less like a suicidal option and the idea of warm pie returns to its proper place in the pantheon of things that make life happy, I will be embarking on a project to recreate every pie in Adrienne Shelly's 2007 film Waitress.
The pies fall into 5 categories:
1. Pies that are named in the film along with ingredients.
2. Pies that are named in the film without ingredients.
3. Pies that are seen in the film but not named.
4. Pies that are inspired by the film in some manner.
5. Pies from the recipe cards that were included in the DVD set. (Some of which fall under categories 1 or 2 but most of which technically fall under cateory 4.)

As I go along in this picaresque pie odyssey I expect to go back and forth from the experimental (who knows what I'll end up coming up with for that guacamole green pie that we see in the film) to the easy and comforting.

So, here's to a journey through pie. What better journey could anyone hope to embark on?