Lately Ruth’s been buying a lot of fresh blueberries from a local farm. I got kinda tired of eating them straight so tonight I decided to make a blueberry pie.
I looked up a recipe from allrecipe.com and it seems simple and delicious. So this is the pie I wanted to make:
Both designs look good.
I have never made a pie before, but I have baked things, cookies, cakes, so I thought, what’s the big deal, I’ll make a beautiful blueberry pie and I’ll take pictures to document it so that I can brag about it.
After digging around in the freezer, I realized that I just have one ready-made pie crust, I need two to make something like the photos above. But at this time I am already too excited to quit, then I decided to make my own crust, it’s just dough, right?
Everything went pretty smoothly, I got one pie crust laying in the pan and got all the filling in. I made the dough and roll it into a 9-inch diameter circle:
then I realized that I cannot get the dough off the board in one piece. I tried and tried, struggled about one hour with it, still cannot roll it into such big piece and get it off the board. I was so frustrated!
So it turns out making a pie is not so easy, at least not for the first time. My blueberry filling’s been in the pan for more then one hour now, my oven is pre-heated to 450 degrees for more than an hour now, should I just make a pie without the top crust?
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade out of them. When you cannot make a large piece of dough, you use small pieces. So I did.
Yeah I know it’s kinda ugly, more like blueberry and dumplings, but I got my pie covered. I even used a cookie cutter to make sure all the little circles are the same size.
Then I looked again on allrecipe.com, turns out I am not alone:
It’s just that I don’t have heart or star shaped cookie cutters 
So it’s gonna take about 50 minutes to get done, I’ll post some pictures when it’s done and see how it turns out.
Note to myself for the next time: make sure to store 2 ready-made pie crusts in freezer!