And I Still Think it Would Taste Awful Mixed with Orange Juice

[pinksonia]

I just bought Creme de Methe for the first time.  It's always seemed kind of useless, and one of those things you buy once for a teaspoon or so and then never use again, but which takes up precious real-estate in a cabinet or on top of the fridge.  I made this terribly *eyeroll* monumental purchase because I've been invited to a pie party tomorrow.  After much deliberation I decided to make a Grasshopper Pie.  Which of course uses a half a cup of Creme de Menthe. 

I don't think I've had Grasshopper Pie in 18 years.  Not since Pop-pop died, which was in Fifth grade, so I must have been ten.  When I was little, we'd periodically go to my Grandparents house for Sunday dinner (my father's parents, who lived on the opposite side of the Philadelphia area from us, meaning they were in New Jersey and we were in Pennsylvania).  Every singe time we had baked macaroni and cheese, broccoli (and I still appear to be the only person who likes the trunks better than the leaves), and grasshopper pie for dessert.  I remember it being very good, so here's hoping that the recipe I found on-line is up to snuff. 

So what are other people's favorite pies.  I must admit to being a pretty big pie fan, simply because I really don't like cake.  Pie is often a good compromise when your mother is despairing about what to serve at a birthday party when the birthday girl doesn't like cake.  Particularly when said party is splitting the difference between Christmas and New Years and every one is royally sick of treats anyway. 

Comments

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

For desert pies, I really only like Chocolate Creme or French Silk.... I love many of my mom's fruit pies: Huckleberry, Peach, blackberry, strawberry, and Cherry.

[pinksonia.livejournal.com]

Those all sound good, particularly blackberry.

[teapostal.livejournal.com]

Grasshopper Pie! Oh my goodness, I haven't had that in probably as long as you! Let me know how it turned out!!

My favourite pie is rhubarb! It is the best, mmmm. I don't eat a lost of pie, though.

[pinksonia.livejournal.com]

I've never had rhubarb because my father hates it. I'll have to make one to try it!

[may-b-maybe.livejournal.com]

Grasshopper pie? As in mint chocolate?

[pinksonia.livejournal.com]

Yup! Its an Oreo cookie crust, marsh mellow and whipped cream filling with mint flavoring.

[glowwormtu.livejournal.com]

Cherry pie, hands down. Then sweet potato pie, follwed closely by shoofly pie.