Pi!

This would have looked glorious BEFORE I gorged myself on turkey and a couple of platesful of trimmings. Ugh! (But ugh in the best possible way!) I'll have to revisit it tomorrow - before eating my leftover apple and buttermilk custard pie.

Happy Thanksgiving to the whole Sandbox!

Here's a pie song that ironically reminds me of the band Cake.

Kathleen, bless her heart, made a coconut cream pie, a pumpkin/sweet potato pie and tiramisu for the four of us. That and the crown roast of pork that I expect J.P. to be blogging about. If I don't report in for work tomorrow, look for me in pie heaven.

Between semesters at culinary school (what a phenomenal waste of time and money) there was this job at a pastry shop. Being the new guy / intern wage grunt it became my job to bake about 40 quiche every day.

Once you sort out the crust the rest is cake, er pie.

I think it's time for Cheese Cake to come out of the closet and say with pride, "I..... Am..... A..... Pie!"

Being a pie isn't a choice CC; you were born with a crust. You're round. Fly your pie flag high and say proudly "I'm Pie! That's I! Get over it!"

Pie

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445 923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938 446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229...

(Someone was bound to do this, so I thought I'd just get it over!)

Rev'Ed -- actually, I make crustless cheesecakes most of the time, since I've never quite figured out the appeal of crushed graham crackers or other cookies as crusts. It does require lining the springform pan with parchment paper, and baking the cheesecake in a bain marie (water bath), but I prefer the results to the typical cheesecake with a gritty crust.

cherry pie rocks

Put a smile on your face, ten miles wide
Looks so good, bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDxz2bkfhE

Rev'Ed -- actually, I make crustless cheesecakes most of the time,

I think that's a hate crime.

(I can't find the link directions and it didn't work the time I tried it.)

My favorite Pie song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5qTgDCbO0

very classy eric. have any more food songs on your stripper playlist?

MD Canon, I had an engineering professor who often would start off calculating things involving pi by saying "Pi is approximately three..." Way back then (mid 60s) folks weren't as concerned with such exacting precision and, for many applications, getting within 5% was good enough and a lot easier before handheld calculators. Somewhere I do have the value of pi to 100,000 decimal places.

Secant, Tangent,
Cosine, Sine,
Three point one four one five nine.
Go Team!

I had a slice of chocolate chip cheesecake yesterday, and it was delicious!!! I took another piece home as a leftover, but declined more.

Stupid me!

Hal: that was definitely one of the strangest things I have seen on the internet. I love people's weirdness!

Oh Owl Meat, you are such a tease. And of all the indignities! No lemon meringue. I'll bet Bourbon Girl had something to do with this. (Please don't hurt me!) Well if she didn't feed you enough, I still have a lot of lemon meringue pie here at the Lemon Grove. Mmmm ... homemade and I beat my meringue by hand. Very fluffy.

Speaking of Owl Meat teasing us: we never did find out what the flaming banana thingy was.
Come on Owl, please enlighten us!!!

Cheesecake is more pie than cake since it is, basically, a custard.

I have been making cheesecakes without crusts since I went on a low carb diet several years ago.

I also make crustless quiches. No one around here complains. Remember, I'm pie crust challenged.

Eve - I love the pie song you linked us to! Michael is one of my favorite movies EVER and Pie is my favorite dessert EVER so it's with great joy that I watched that today (with belly full of TG leftovers and pie!)

Been having a Pi Day Pi(zza) Pi(e) Party on 3.14 for over a decade, featuring all round foods, a theme and program (just back from the world's most important circle, Stonehenge, hence the theme for 2009), games, songs, quotes, round-robin, and of course, the ceremonial measuring of the heads. Anyone know why?

Anyone know why?

Anyone know why what? Why Pi day is on 3/14? That's pretty obvious. Why you measure the heads? Presumably because of the relationship of pi to circles.

Pi Day and its related possible dates. I love the idea of observance on 26 April (or the 25th in leap years.)

We measure heads is to determine American hat sizes, which are calculated by dividing pi into the circumference. For instance, an American size 7 hat would fit a head measuring 22 inches around.

I had wondered where hat sizes came from. That is a wonderful bit of trivia, Donna. Thank you.

I didn't know that about hat sizes! D@L sure is an educational place. :-)

So I guess an American hat size is really more or less the average diameter of the head.

I just noticed this past Saturday at Wegman's that the "express" lines indicate either 10 or 15 items or "fewer" - not less. Did they just change this recently or have they always been grammatically correct and I hadn't noticed?

We measure heads is to determine American hat sizes, which are calculated by dividing pi into the circumference. For instance, an American size 7 hat would fit a head measuring 22 inches around.

Get out of here! Really? That explains where those weird sizes come from. So it's the diameter of your head?

I think that comment deserves an award for best off-topic enlightenment.

I once figured out the price points for egg sizes, as in if extra large eggs are more than 12% more expensive (for example) large eggs are a better value. I'll see if I can find that.

Now I have to explore and verify.

INCHES CENTIMETERS HAT SIZE
21-1/4 54 6-3/4
21-5/8 55 6-7/8
22 55.9 7
22-3/8 56.8 7-1/8
22-3/4 57.8 7-1/4
23-1/8 58.7 7-3/8
23-1/2 59.7 7-1/2
23-7/8 60.6 7-5/8
24-1/4 61.6 7-3/4
24-5/8 62.5 7-7/8
25 63.5 8

22/3.14 = 7.00
23.5/3.14= 7.48
25/3.14 = 7.96

Cool.

I am such a nerd.

Less words, more pie -- that's how I know I'm not John McIntyre. It's a silly rule. Less makes perfect sense to me. When comparing quantities you use a less than symbol, not a few than symbol. Oh well.

The rule is to use "fewer" when amounts are quantifiable (e.g. I should take fewer trips to the dessert buffet.). I can count how many trips I take to the buffet.

You should use "less" for abstract amounts (e.g. She loves me less today than she did before.). There is no way to count the love.

There is no way to count the love.

Sure there is.

Counting love is kind of like counting water.

First gloryholes and now counting love. I'm concerned for Ms B. Girl.

Oh, and welcome back from Glyphdom.

BALTIMORE CITY WATER RATE: $2.78 per thousand gallons (Effective July 1st, 2008)

is it like...counting crows?

$2.78 per thousand gallons

That's not counting water. That's counting gallons of water. There's a difference.

In case you might like to know, down here we get billed for water/sewer like this:

0-3000 gallons = 26.09
3,500 gallons = 28.33
5,500 gallons = 37.29
7,500 gallons = 46.25

These are monthly charges. While I get billed from a private company, they mimic the local gov't. charges. Which I'm glad for, because interpreting the City of PCB water bill was a real headache.

how's that for topic drift!

potato/potato

Owl Meat, how big is one water?

Hal - are you asking fresh water or salt water? I think salt water is bigger than fresh water, that's why it's more bouyant.

Owl Meat, how big is one water?

Half the size of the same amount of unicorn tears.

Bucky, if by "bigger" you mean "denser," you got it. More stuff dissolved in the water and it gets denser. Like floating in the Dead Sea - there's so much "stuff" dissolved in the water that you float so high in the water you think you're going to tip over. Which you don't want to do 'cause the water tastes awful!

RiE - That's exactly what I meant. And I was the Dead Sea was closer so I could try that.

I can count how many trips I take to the buffet.
How about if you choose not to count? Would "less" then be correct. :)

I can count how many trips I take to the buffet.
How about if you choose not to count? Would "less" then be correct? :)

Sorry if my last comment came through more than once. I got an error message when I first tried to submit it.

RiE - it really does taste nasty, but it left my skin feeling so nice and soft once I rinsed it off.

Bucky - You'r a lot closer to Great Salt Lake than the Dead Sea. Pretty much the same idea.

Geeze...I left a word out of that comment too..this is getting worrisome...I meant, "I wish the Dead Sea was closer..."