Friday Pie-Day: Stars & Stripes Pie

Although this is one of the simplest pies we have made, it looked the most elaborate! We made it for the 4th of July this year – instead of a flag cake, we had a flag pie!

This is one of those pies that people think you worked forever on, and it really was whipped up in a few minutes. The filling was effortless to “make,” and it was fun and easy to decorate too!

Friday Pie-Day: Razzleberry Pie

Raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries are a great combination, especially in a pie! This was our pie of the month in July 2011, and it was buenisimo! 

Friday Pie-Day: Blueberry Pie

Classic pie! Fresh summery fruit! Easy to assemble! Delicious taste! What more could a pie-maker ask for?

Flag Cake

For all my readers in or from the United States of America, the 4th of July is fast approaching! Here’s a classic family favorite that is easy to make and fun to eat!

Friday Pie-Day: Strawberry-Rhubarb Meringue Pie

Last year our June "pie of the month" was this delicious pie with a wonderful combination of ingredients – strawberries, rhubarb, meringue (and almonds)!

Friday Pie-Day: Fresh Strawberry Pie

Here is a very simple recipe for a fresh summery pie! Unfortunately, this was our June pie of the month way back in 2010, so the pictures aren’t that great, but it’s super easy to make!

Friday Pie-Day: Four-Fruit Pie

I love hot fruit pies, and here is another delicious recipe we got from Taste of Home to use for our monthly pie this year. It was quite simple to make, and the results were scrumptious!

The four fruits in this pie are…

Friday Pie-Day: Cherry-Berry Streusel Pie

So here follows a tale of a pie that didn’t quite turn out like the picture promised. However, it was due mostly to our lack of direction-reading, so I am looking forward to trying this pie again! (This was our monthly pie from last year, so it may be time to make again soon!)

Friday Pie-Day: Blackberry Pie

This was the first berry pie we ever made, way back in 2010 (for "pie of the month"), and boy was it good!

Friday Pie-Day: Blueberry Lemon Pie

By now you’ve probably figured out that our family loves pie. It’s our fourth year of making a different pie every month, and I’m just now getting caught up on the previous years’ pies. (This was from April 2012.) But here’s a disclosure: my favorite kind of pie is a hot fruit pie, so this one hit the spot! 

Friday Pie-Day: Banana-Berry Pie

When I saw this beautiful pie in my Taste of Home pies book, I knew we had to make it! We finally got around to it March 2012 (last year) for our pie of the month, and this double-layered pie was so fun to make and very tasty!

Friday Pie-Day: Raspberry Pie

This February’s pie of the month was an interesting but tasty combination that reminded us of summer!

Not too many ingredients were needed…

Monday Meals: Cranberry Chicken

If Friday is a pie-day, then Mondays need to be for meal planning. This is a recipe I’m rather fond of and a little proud of – I made it up myself! It’s the first recipe I’ve created, and it’s pretty yummy, if I say so myself.

I love cranberries. I think I have 4 bags of craisins in the pantry right now (I stock up on BOGO deals), and also I buy them fresh when they’re in season and freeze them to use all throughout the year. I don’t know what it is about them, but we were trying to get rid of some, and I thought, “Why not combine them with chicken?”