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The Food Desert Project - Pecan-Date Tassies

It’s pie season again!  Sadly, I am a bit under the weather, so my usual plethora of pies won’t be happening this year – so I decided I would make up in quantity what I can’t do in variety.  Tassies (possibly an Anglicization of the French word for cup, “tasse”) are little one-bite pies, and I adapted... Read more »

By QuipsTravails,
November 20, 2013 at 9:00 am • 

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch...

“….you must first create the universe.” Carl Sagan The following is a reprinting of our very first Pi Day pie project.  Please enjoy it, and Don’t forget to click through, vote, favorite and share this year’s pie on Instructables.com! It’s Pi day, heralded all over town with various pie-related celebrations, several years worth of dedications on... Read more »

By QuipsTravails,
March 17, 2013 at 9:00 am • 

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