Busy weekend, and lots of pies!

And I'm way behind on blog posts.

Going all the way back to Friday: Nantucket Cranberry Pie

Another Surprise Pie Ingredient inspired this one, but cranberries make a more obvious pie ingredient, so it wasn't too tricky.
I found this recipe on a food blog, and at first I thought to myself "What?! this isn't a pie either!" However, the author shared my concern, and quelled it for me. The way she describes it "It's pie in Nantucket."

So there.

Also, it's REALLY easy. So much so that I was tempted to try baking it on a grill. Alas, we didn't have as much grill space I thought there would be at the barbeque, so I baked it in the oven like a normal person.
Start by preheating the oven to 350F and greasing up a cake pan generously with butter.
Here's all the stuff:

2 (heaping) cups cranberries
3/4 cups pecans, chopped
2/3 cup sugar

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

a little extra sugar

Spread the cranberries in the bottom of the cake pan, then the pecans on that, then sprinkle the sugar over as evenly as possible. Then mix the rest of the stuff (other than the extra sugar, that's for later) in a bowl and pour it out over the fruit/nuts/sugar in the pan. It's pretty thick, so try to pour it out as evenly as you can, cause it'll be tricky to spread it. Then bake for 45 to 50 minutes. A few minutes before you take it out, sprinkle that other sugar on top.

SUPER YUM. I will make this pie MANY times in the future. So many great things about it; tart cranberries, crunchy nuts, sweet, crispy topping... the only thing is that it doesn't come out of the pan with all the gooey insides and you have to scoop it all out separately so it doesn't make nice slice-of-pie-shaped servings. Instead I just ate it out of the pan. After the other people dug their slices out.