Knowing When It's Time To Let Someone Else Make The Pies Is Important

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I am a woman who knows her weaknesses - in the kitchen anyway. I can make crepes like nobody's business, but ask me to make their clunky cousin, the pancake? Forget it. I make the best pizza dough ever, but pie crust? Nope.

Fortunately there are solutions for my problem. If I have fresh fruit and if I find myself in a position that requires me to bake a pie, I just use refrigerated crust. Sometimes though {take this year of horrible cherry, apple and peach harvest for example}, I would just buy a canned filling, a refrigerated crust, and make a pie from that.

Now what is the point of that? Is that even home made anymore? I think not.  And when we get into the whole deep dish pie category - I don't even own a deep dish.  I am OK with that, because you know how often I need to make a deep dish pie? Approximately once a year.  Letting a deep dish pie pan hang out in my already crowded kitchen does not make sense for an annual occasion.

Let's look at cherries, for example.  President's Day is coming up and there will be a mad dash  from people like me who are overly thematic for cherry related recipes on account of the cherry tree that George Washington did not lie about chopping down. Or something.  

One delicious, easy option would be to make the Cherry Pie with Butter Fudge Sauce from Mrs. Smith's Signature Deep Dish pies. 

The fudge sauce just sits politely on the side to satisfy the folks with such cravings; but doesn't have to be spread over the entire pie by any means.

Anything with the word "Dutch" is bound to be a hit in West Michigan, so I would be remiss if I did not bring the Deep Dish Dutch Apple Pie With Carmel Sauce to your attention.  This thing looks ridiculously delicious.

If you are one of those amazing pie crust makers, I tip my hat to you.  If you are not, come over and sit by me.  We'll eat some of these pies instead.

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