pie times at apartment s

i used to be a pie baker at grandma violet's pies. we were wholesale bakers, selling to local co-ops and fancy grocery stores around seattle in the late 1990's. it was a two woman operation. beth, the owner, used her grandma's (can you guess her name?) marvelous crust recipe as the foundation of the business. there is a secret ingredient. i considered revealing it here by including the recipe but that type of secret is too precious to expose.

it was a truly delightful place to work. and i learned to make a mean pie.

i came home on wednesday and looked at our refrigerator and found a few pints of blueberries and strawberries at their ripest point. i said to myself, "how can we eat them all before they go bad?" and "i don't bake enough pies!" thus, i determined that it was my duty as a wife to make the best fresh berry and peach (we had some super ripe, super yummy ones) pie. so i did. here is a sampling of photos that i took along the pie highway:

naked berries
pour some sugar on me.
hot out of the oven.
a la mode and almost gone.