Piebrary 2012!

Whoo! It's almost time for this year's pie adventure. Are you guys ready!?

The past year has been pretty busy; so here's a quick breakdown of my pie-sploitations for the past year:

Lots of pies during the holiday season, particularly the pumpkin-themed ones, although I've switched to butternut squash pretty much exclusively. Primarily because it's available for a lot longer - I saw pumpkins in the store for about two weeks, but the squash was available for at least another month. In addition to that, butternut squash is a lot more flavorful! You'll have to check it out. Anyway, for Thanksgiving, I set a record: five pies in one day. I wouldn't have been able to do it without Chris R's help.

Then, for my 23rd birthday, 23 pies! It took a little over a week to get 'em all done, but it was a whirlwind adventure that I can't wait to try again! I also bumped up the pies-in-one-day record. I think I managed eight, but I don't remember exactly. So I guess I'll have to try and repeat it, to make sure!

And more recently, rhubarb is back! Lots of rhubarb pies and rhubarb cheescakes at the beginning of may have been getting me excited about trying some new crazy things this summer!!

So this Saturday, we're kicking off this year's Piebrary! There's a big brunch party at my place. I'm baking at least a few pies. Some are prolly repeats, but no less than one of them is going to be new and I'll tell you all about it after. I'm also going to make some various breakfast/brunch type things, and hopefully some of the other folks coming to help celebrate will bring some delicious things. If you want to come, let me know in the comments, and I'll invite you to the facebook event. (I don't know if there's anyone who reads this that I don't already know on facebook, so we'll deal with that hurdle if it comes up.)

Yeah pie!