Yummo! as Rachel Ray would say Last night I made the most awesome strawberry rhubarb pie Ever!

Ok so I cheated a bit and bought frozen pie shells, but I don’t have a counter to be rolling pastry out on so its allowed!

Anyhoo…I had 2 deep dish pie crusts, and 2 large stalks of rhubarb, and 2 things of strawberries (quarts? I guess). I just started cutting them up and filled up the pie shells. When there was enough cut up, I put all the fruit into a bowl, and mixed in 2 cups of sugar and ½ cup of flour and let that sit for about 15 minutes. Then in another bowl I mixed about 1 ½ cups of graham crumbs, 4 packets of plain instant oatmeal, and about ¾ cup of brown sugar and half a stick of melted butter. I mixed the melted butter in with that until there’s bits of crumbly goodness. Then put the fruit and sugar mixture into the pie shells, cover the tops with the graham crumb mixture and stick ‘em in the oven.

The oven was pre-heated at 450F, cook it for 10 minutes, then turn the temperature down to 350 for about 30 minutes (ovens will vary because some cool down faster than others). When the outer edge of the crust was nice and toasty brown, I took ‘em out. And darn it, they had to cool for quite a while before I could serve ‘em up!

But WOW was it gooooooooooooood! A bit soupy, but very very yummy. I think next time I will add in a ¼ cup of custard mix or cornstarch in place of ¼ cup of flour, to thicken it. But it was still nice as a big crumbly mess on the plate. We both had seconds, and had to fight our taste buds to say no to thirds! I put one pie in the freezer to save for later, but I’m definitely having a slice for dessert again tonight.

And Aunt Jane is stopping in tonight for the night on her way up to TO. She’ll be my un-biased taste tester ;-)

I am quite proud of myself, that was a damn good pie!  ¶ 5:59 PM