Pie for Breakfast...

[Beach Chick]

It really is the perfect breakfast item..flaky crust, fresh fruit filling and a strong cup of coffee.
How great is that.

[Passadumkeg]

Apple pie w/ cheddar or muenster cheese.

[LA Buckeye Fan]

+1 on the apple/cheddar combo for brekkie.

[njmarshall55]

Is the apple pie/cheddar combo a regional thing? i've ordered it in numerous places and often get looks like I had a third eye. Personally, I love it.

[Passadumkeg]

I think it is very northeast. Very popular in New England and the Pa Dutch country. Unheard of in New Mexico.

[soupkitten]

if you say so... it's definitely a wisconsin thing.

[Passadumkeg]

German-American?

[soupkitten]

honestly, i think it's just a function of the area producing both great apples and great cheese.

though the area grows other great fruit, and i don't see folks eating cheese with their door county cherry pie. hmm. but yeah, there are some germans in wisconsin, for sure.

[iL Divo]

+++ for grandma's authentic apple pie with cheddar melted atop, good grief, so good

[Tripeler]

Strawberry Rhubarb

[Passadumkeg]

Pumpkin w/ yogurt.

[goodhealthgourmet]

+1. or just fold the filling into your yogurt...or oatmeal.

[ipsedixit]

Cold apple pie with a cup of coffee.

Nothing is finer on an autumn Sunday morning.

[Popkin]

I'll +1 to that!

[goodhealthgourmet]

whenever i host Thanksgiving i always send my guests home with about 95% of the leftovers. but the one year my sister came out to spend the holiday with me, she hid the rest of my apple-cranberry tart in the back of the fridge before i could wrap it for everyone because she wanted it for breakfast!

[ZenSojourner]

Hot apple pie with streudel topping and a great big cold cold cold glass of milk!

*sigh*

[Beach Chick]

banana creme pie is what I'm jonesing for..
I'm eating a slice of warm apple pie with a cup of coffee..heaven

[Sloth]

This is what I thought of when I saw this topic heading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erYIK-...

Peter was my favorite Monkee.

[HillJ]

I lived on unsold pie for breakfast, lunch & dinner in college as a starving undergrad working the pie conveyor nightshift at the local marketplace. I still love pie...mostly breakfast. Love a good blueberry pie.

[bagelman01]

Not into the fruit filling for breakfast,
BUT: Banana Cream Pie, Chocolate Cream Pie, Boston Cream, Coconut Custard, Sweet Potato , Nesselrode, or Pecan would really make my day.

Don't even need the coffee, but a tall gklass of ice cold milk

[HillJ]

Oh I love all those pies too bagelman01! When I travel to San Diego I always stop in the pie town of Julian to check out the door to door pie shops there. If you have never been, go!

[weezieduzzit]

The apple dumplings at Mom's in Julian... To die for. Looks like we need to take a roadtrip!

[HillJ]

There are so many great pie shops in Julian, I can't pick just 1.

[EWSflash]

Pumpkin.

[MinkeyMonkey]

same here, Pumpkin pie with an individual pot of hot assam tea, the Onion or a good book...at home or at the coffee shop by the bookstore. Even just sitting outside on the doorstep in my jammies surrounded by dogs trying to catch the sunlight, with the cold breeze making us glad we are in cozy duds.

man, a bowl of cold pumpkin pie in a bowl with soy milk (or whatever) poured over top is a great breakfast.

[DiningDiva]

Ah, BC strikes again :-)

Any pie is good for breakfast since it includes 2 of my favorite food groups...fat & sugar ;-)

My 2 favs are Lemon Meringue during summer and Pecan during Fall. The rest of the year, it doesn't matter, I'll eat whatever's there.

(BC, get over to Elizabethan Desserts in Encinitas and pick up one of her cherry tarts <a junior pie really> and try that for brekkie. Totally rocks)

I just finished up a piece of savory pie (okay, so it's quiche) for breakfast. Totally works for me.

[Beach Chick]

My Mom used to make one hell of a lemon merinque and she'd have those peaks like little Mt. Everest..
Costco has a pretty decent Pecan Pie..
Need to get to Elizabethan for the Cherry Lattice..your quiche you made sounds so delicious!

HillJ...nothing like heading to Julian with snow on the ground and go back in time to the Old Mining Town days and eat fab pie on every corner..
ipsy..if you could find a hash brown to squish in between the pie or a french fry..hee hee
Pass..love how you roll..not a blueberry pie since your representing the great state of Maine?

[HillJ]

ah BC, nothing beats food memories!

[MinkeyMonkey]

Yes! Lemon meringue on the coast at the La Fonda, sitting on the patio watching the dolphins go by...

What a great memory! Summer surfing trips to Mexico were one of the few times I loved lemon meringue. Not sure what they did differently but there was some kind of trick they used for the meringue.

[Passadumkeg]

Frito pie, for a hangover.

[LA Buckeye Fan]

and a dos equis

[Passadumkeg]

or Modelo

[Divamac]

So true!

I look forward to the pie holidays so I can have mince pie (only ever eaten for breakfast in my family) or pumpkin or whatever else is available form the bounty of the holidays with my morning tea.

But let's face it, anything in a pie crust is wonderful.

[HillJ]

We just had mac n cheese pie at a friends home; wasn't exactly my kind of pie.

[njmarshall55]

Haven't had real mince pie in YEARS. Grandmother used to make it. The rest of my family didn't care for it, but I couldn't get enough. Should research and try some on my own, I s'pose.

[Roland Parker]

Very Victorian. Pies for breakfast was common in New England and the Midwest, especially on farms. People really did bake pies all the time, which led to the popularity of the phrase, "easy as a pie."

[ZenSojourner]

I wish!

Pie crust thus far continues to elude me.

As does fresh baked bread. Why can I make pizza dough - but not bread???

*sigh*

[njmarshall55]

America's Test kitchen/Cook's Country (not sure which show) has a recipe for pie dough that uses vodka and water...less water equals less gluten, which means a flakier, more tender pie dough.

[PattiCakes]

Roland, it's a PA Dutch (PA German) staple as well. As a matter of fact, the famous Shoo Fly Pie is more of a breakfast item than a dessert item. Typically (on the farm), you'd get up really early, have coffe and maybe a little something to take the edge off your hunger, go out and do your early morning chores, then come back in for a BIG breakfast, including pie. Many pies, once "set" can be picked up and eaten out of hand too, rather than served on a plate with utensils.

[aching]

Yes yes yes! I have PA Dutch ancestors, which I have always figured gave me license to eat pie in the morning. Blackberry or mincemeat are my favorite, but really, I'll take any of them.

[greygarious]

This schedule was characteristic of Shaker communities, too. Apple pie was a staple component of their breakfasts.

I am guessing that the half-moon shaped, single-serving "hand pie" comes from the farm breakfast tradition. Perhaps it was one of the options for the pre-dawn mini-breakfast.

[PattiCakes]

You are probably right, grey. When you think about it, the pie "form" has a lot of variations, including the ever-popular quiche. And those hand pies are a variation of the "pasty", favored by many types of workers, especialy miners. We've got a comapny here in Philadelphia, TasyKake, that makes a whole line of those individual pies. They are rectangular rather than moon-shaped, but the idea is the same -- a fruit filling fully encased in a pie shell.

I still make my apple pies without sugar, so they are pure apple, a little spice, and a crust. That, along with a wedge of cheese, makes a great (and healthy) breakfast. I remember my mom giving me a warmed slice of apple pie (or a left-over apple dumpling), with milk on top for breakfast before school.

[mymomisthebestcook]

Patticake, can you provide your sugar free apple pie receipe?

[PattiCakes]

I don't use a recipe! I just peel & slice my apples, toss them with some cinnamon, or some of Penzy's Baking Spice, a pinch of salt and some cornstarch. Every once in a while I will throw in some raisins or some dried cranberries. I use either Granny Smith apples or Honey Crisp. My daughter's MIL makes her apple sauce the same way, with no added sugar and just a touch of spice. I just like the pure apple taste, even though it might be on the tart side, depending on the apples used.

[Passadumkeg]

ditto

[soupkitten]

my mom was a pretty typical midwestern mom, so she would bake one or 2 pies a week. always a fruit pie, which were considered wholesome as opposed to the pies made mostly out of sweetened condensed milk or chocolate or other "junk food" ;-P we were a family of 4 so she'd cut into 8 and we'd have pie for a dessert and the following breakfast, or for dessert 2 nights running. sometimes she'd try to pack a slice of pie into a school lunch. very messy.

on the pasties: some recipes had savory fillings baked into part of the pastry, and sweet fillings baked into the other end. the baker would mark the dough somehow with an indication that the miner start eating at one end of the pasty to have a savory followed by a sweet pastry lunch!

[ChrisOC]

Hot apple pie with a nice wedge of cheddar cheese, eggs with red flannel hash and a cup of hot, spiced apple cider. Nothing better on a crisp fall morning.

[beevod]

A slice of chilled cherry pie balanced, for protein, by a slice of last night's pizza, with a glass of champagne. A breakfast that makes tolerable the worst of commutes.

[Passadumkeg]

Cherry Bomb pie (cherries and red chile) or apple, pinon, green chile pie get me up and going in the morning!

[Beach Chick]

They make cherry bomb pies with red chile flakes?
WOW...I want some of that!

[DiningDiva]

Wow, me too. That sound like, well, like da bomb

[Passadumkeg]

I prefer the fresh Hatch green chile, pinon, apple pie, personally. Add a cup of each to your favorite apple pie recipe.
I use Hatch red chile powder in the cherry bomb.
http://www.pie-o-neer.com/

http://dailypie.com/About_us.html

[GraydonCarter]

I loved pie as a kid, but I find it is just too sweet. I love pie for breakfast, absolutely, especially if it is a no-sugar added fruit pie. Those syrupy canned pie fillings I can do without.

Oh, my, no more pie.

[jdub1371]

I generally dislike sweet stuff on an empty stomach, especially breakfast-- I need at least toast first, preferably with eggs/cheese/beans/meat. But even I will eat a piece of fruit pie for breakfast. Apple pie is particularly good with a cup of malty Assam tea.

[CocoaNut]

Not pie, but I just finished a wonderful petits fours - small-crumb, dense, but tender cake with rich, creamy glace icing.

[Beach Chick]

I'm craving me a peanut butter pie with a chocolate bottom crust..

[ipsedixit]

I'm not sure there's a moment when I don't crave that ...

[Beach Chick]

Between that and a Filet O Fish with extra tartar and a handful of fries squished together inside....I'm set to go!

[ZenSojourner]

For BREAKFAST?

Oh my!

[Beach Chick]

; )

[ipsedixit]

"Between that and a Filet O Fish with extra tartar and a handful of fries squished together inside....I'm set to go!"
_________________________

Will you marry me?

[Beach Chick]

LOL..

[cheesecake17]

With a glass of milk and some strawberries, perfect breakfast.

[greygarious]

Tiime to rent "Pushing Daisies"!

[Diane in Bexley]

If you do any historical research, you will find out that fruit pie was often served for breakfast to Colonials in the early part of American history. It was a way to preserve fruit. See the article referenced for how they froze the pie for the winter to preserve it even longer.

http://gomestic.com/cooking/the-old-y...

[Querencia]

The first brunch buffet I ever encountered was the "Plantation Breakfast" at Colonial Williamsburg in about 1966 or 1967---and it included a big deep-dish apple pie. (This will break your heart---I believe price of this all-you-can eat, which featured fried chicken and a lot of other stuff in a lovely setting, was $2.99.)

[Jasz]

Not exactly pie but I love my blueberry&peach crumble, hot, with yogurt for a yummy brekkie or lunch.

[Veggo]

Key lime pie with whipped cream and shaved almonds...may not be the ideal breakfast for pole vaulters or jockeys, but it sure goes well with a mug of french roast and a dastardly sudoku.

[mamachef]

My dear departed father-in-law used to start every single day with a huge wedge of fruit pie, a chunk of sharp cheese (no matter what kind of pie it was), and a big mug of strong steaming coffee. He was such a creature of habit (it had to be pie, and it had to be fruit) that I counted it as a personal triumph when I got him to liking sweet potato cobbler just as much....also turned him onto green tomato pie, which he LOVED....
to this day, a slice of cherry pie is a heavenly breakfast, in my book. or peach.

[gadfly]

E.B. White once wrote:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

[Passadumkeg]

Spot on! Wonderful.

[Beach Chick]

just had a slice of warm blueberry pie with a strong cup of coffee...
life is good.

[ZenSojourner]

*jealous*

[Beach Chick]

; )

[jester99]

Pie is awesome for breakfast. I had some pecan pie this morning. I do not think anything should be time restricted. Cake in the morning is awesome too. One of the best quotes from the short lived Kitchen Cofidential tv series, "muffins are for people who dont have the nads to order cake for breakfast".

[GraydonCarter]

>Cake in the morning is awesome too.
Eggs are in chocolate cake! And milk! Oh goody! And wheat!

[soupkitten]

coffee cake! delicious.

[roxlet]

Haha! That's Bill Cosby, right?

[Passadumkeg]

Left over from a Sat. night pub party, Cock-leekie, steak and kidney, or seafod pie, w/ a side of bloaters.

[MinkeyMonkey]

Yes, I had two slices of home made pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning! Ahhh...

[Beach Chick]

I was a little hungover Christmas morning and I SO needed a piece of banana creme pie..

[NicoleFriedman]

I ate pumpkin pie 3 times in one week a few months ago during a time of great stress. It helped, though my hubby laughed his *** off when I told him.

[HLing]

Maybe I'm stressed all the time then...In the fall and winter it's often a slice of warmed Tarte Tatin (the stove-top first then into oven,very caramelized kind), a small bowl of plain yogurt with lots of home made peanut butter brittle made with freshly roasted peanuts, and cup(s) of black aeropressed home roasted, stone ground coffee. Usually a big pie is made once a week to keep the supply ready. Sometimes, to remember warmer times, it will be fresh baked strawberry shortcake (cream biscuit type) for breakfast with hand whipped cream. Other times I improvise with the tarte tatin by adding some baked sweet potato and making it a apple sweet potato crumble. Also good breakfast food......

[MinkeyMonkey]

Is it wrong to have had pie for breakfast a second day in a row? This time, just one slice...

[DiningDiva]

No

[MinkeyMonkey]

Awesome, because the count is up to three days in a row and tomorrow will be four. And then, sadly, the pie will be gone :(

[gaffk]

If I were you, I'd bake\buy another pie.

[CocoaNut]

Had a slice of sweet potato pie just this morning with coffee. Each complimented the other very well. It didn't hurt that a neighbor had made it as a Christmas gift!

[MinkeyMonkey]

Hah, we baked two pies so we could give one to our friends down the street but they are on a diet! How nice that you were baked a pie as a gift. They kind of taste better that way...

[tracylee]

We have a family friend who doesn't like dessert after dinner. She takes her serving home to have it at breakfast. I always thought it was decadent. But pumpkin pie for breakfast is wonderful!

[lrhr]

Early on while dating my husband, I brought out raspberry pie to eat for breakfast (in bed.) I thought it was sexy and decadent. He was horrified. Not, as it turned out, for the timing or location. He just hates pie. Sigh. I married him anyway.

[EWSflash]

He must have a lot of redeeming qualities to make up for THAT.

[letsindulge]

I love pie morning, noon, or night.

[Beach Chick]

Making a blueberry pie so I can have a big ol' slice while watching SDSU basketball team kick ass over BYU tomorrow morning...

[goodhealthgourmet]

BIG game tomorrow - totally deserves a special indulgence. i was all stoked about having muesli tomorrow morning for the first time in ages, but your breakfast sounds a little more exciting :)

go Aztecs!

[Querencia]

Why not? I make bread pudding just so I can eat it for breakfast.

[Beach Chick]

Made a kick ass banana cream pie last weekend and had a big ol' slice with my coffee... happy happy moment...

[ipsedixit]

Any time I have pie in the morning is a happy moment.

Heck, any time I have pie is a happy moment!

[Beach Chick]

Exactly sista sledge!

[DiningDiva]

:-D...rock it girl.

[Beach Chick]

I need to if I'm eating pie for breakfast...
; )

[laliz]

warm apple pie w/chocolate ice cream. and black coffee. mmmmmmmm

[HillJ]

enjoyed a healthy slice of fruits of the forest pie this morning with a pineapple smoothie chaser. fruit line up included peaches, apples, blackberries, kiwi and pineapple in a almond milk crust.

[Beach Chick]

that sounds delicious HillJ..

laliz..need to try the chocolate ice cream with the apple instead of vanilla..been doing pistachio lately...warm apple is the key.

[HillJ]

oh it is! had to do "it" again this morning!

[laliz]

beach chick, I always feel like Meg Ryan when I order it. Apple pie w/chocolate ice cream, only if the pie is warm~~ if not warm then no ice cream.

[Beach Chick]

'I always feel like Meg Ryan when I order it.'...LOL
I'd like to feel like Meg right about now..
; )

[Passadumkeg]

We went to Pie Town, New Mexico last weekend for breakfast (try to find it on a map) There are 2 choices and bothe are great.
http://www.pietowncafe.com/
http://pie-o-neer.com/

My favorite is the apple, green chile and pinon nut or the Cherry Bomb.

[Beach Chick]

The apple, green chile with pinion nuts sounds so frigging good Pass..
Dang, I was just up in that area a couple of weeks ago and thanks for letting me know for next time up at the cabin!

[Passadumkeg]

Sedona? Email me, if you wish and we'll meet you there.

[Beach Chick]

No..up near Zane Grey's old cabin at the Mogollon Rim...as the crow flies probably about 60 miles from Pietown..where do you at in NM..love love love NM!

You got the life Pass...Maine and New Mexico..

[Passadumkeg]

Our youngest just started teaching w/ me last month. It was he that I wanted to take to Pie Town. There is also a pie festival in the summer.

[Beach Chick]

I'm all over that pie festival..aren't you in Maine for the summer?

[Passadumkeg]

Yes, lobster pie!!!

[Beach Chick]

Love that Pass..
Kennebunk eating blueberry pie and lobstah pie all day long..

[Passadumkeg]

We're 4 hours north of K-bunk. The land of blueberry barrens and wild blueberry pie. I can walk to a rocky beach in 5 min and see no one.

[Beach Chick]

Are you past Bar Harbor...
I'm a So. California La Jolla gal and would love to see no one at our gorgeous beaches!
Lobster pies..are they sold at the lobster shacks that are a thing of beauty up and down the coast?
I found the blueberries in Maine, way better than what I'm used to on the West Coast..the pie, the ice cream..anything else they put in a pie?

[Passadumkeg]

Yes Bar Harbor area. That's where I work as a Registered Maine Guide, specializing in 3 or 5 day kayak trips along the Maine Island Trail. We pick our own blueberries behind the house. Best pie ever. In Norway, I used to make red and black current and goose berry pies.
Been to La Jolla. We have use of a house in Huntington Beach.

[Beach Chick]

My new hero!
That is so awesome Pass..

[Passadumkeg]

We'll often meet my Las Vegas brother in Cottonwood, Dead Horse State Park and drive back to Grants through Payson. In Cotton found a great little cafe, with a patio and pie for breakfast. I opted out for a bratwurst on a hard roll w/ home made kraut and potato salad!
In Finland, I mad a "topless" pear and turnip (Swede) pie. Very unusual, got find the recipe this summer.
In Bolivia they served these small meat pies, called saltenas, for breakfast. They were Bolivia's truly additive drug.

[Beach Chick]

Pass..you're in Grants?
Is the Sonic still there...don't they have a little pie shop in town.

You'll love Asylum at the Jerome's Grand Hotel outside of Cottonwood..sweet and very haunted.
What's the name of the pie place in Cottonwood since were in Sedona, quite a bit...get your arse to Elote Cafe in Sedona...oh my..some of the best food evah!

[Passadumkeg]

Yup, host of the open store front festival. I began teaching here 40+ years ago. I own land on Mt. Taylor. Been to the Asylum. Can't remember. The ribs place is bad.
I owe you a Triscuit green chiile pie as an apology!

[DiningDiva]

I remember seeing that pie on some FTV show last year and thought the same thing...friggin' good. I'll be in NM later this year, must remember to stop and actually try it

[Beach Chick]

Hi DD!
Make sure you report back on the pie from NM...bet that is incredible..
When are you going?

[DiningDiva]

I'll be in NM in late July for the Intl. Folk Art Festival in Santa Fe. Hopefully, I'll remember to make the side trip to Pie Town!

[davis_sq_pro]

Tollhouse Pie, cold, straight out of the fridge. With a strong cup of coffee. Oh yes...

A good recipe here: http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/jour...

[Beach Chick]

Holy crap...that's got my name all over it!

[gaffk]

I just saved that recipe . . . can't wait to make it. Actually, can't wait to eat it (with strong coffee, of course).

[davis_sq_pro]

It's great stuff; just make sure to bake it a bit longer than it calls for (see the comments at the bottom for more info). And it's one of those baked goods that becomes 10x better the next day, for whatever reason (I still don't understand the science behind that).

[gaffk]

Thanks for the tips. And I'm happy to hear it tastes better the next day, since there are only two in the household.

[FoodFigure]

I'm not going to lie to you, I've indulged in my share of chicken pot pie for breakfast more than once. And I say that with pride.

[Beach Chick]

I would consider chicken pot pie a pie...and you should have your shoulders back with pride that you had it for breakfast...solid..very solid.

btw...great website FoodFigure!

[Seeker19104]

Know a woman from the mid-West (German extraction) who loves pie for breakfast -- especially apple with cheddar cheese.

Growing up in NYC, this was never an option. My dad had weight issues, so we only had dessert three times a year: Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas. (My mom was a great home cook and baker.)

However, my mother was from North Carolina. Her aunt made a killer French toast which approximated lemon meringue pie. She separated the eggs. Used the yolks in the dipping mixture. Whipped the whites and sweetened them with confectioner's sugar. Served with hot lemon juice. Heaven!

[Beach Chick]

Made a fab blueberry pie...eating a slice with a cup of strong coffee...dang, it's so good!

[Beach Chick]

Banana cream pie...divine

[DiningDiva]

Tried a new lemon meringue filling this week. Too tart and too sweet, evev really strong coffee wouldn't cut through it. But the meringue was stellar.

[Pipenta]

As a nutmegger, I eat pie for breakfast when the opportunity presents itself, usually apple.

Being New Haven born and bred, I eat leftover pizza PIE for breakfast on a regular basis.