Italian Pie
Perhaps the food with the potential to hold the most love is… pie. D and I sing a silly song about pie that goes like this: “gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with (butterscotch) love”. In the song, butterscotch can be changed to any ingredient and in this case it would be sausage and spinach and ricotta cheese.
When I am writing here, I refer to the beau of Daughter #2 as the Frenchman. I know that he is proficient in the kitchen because he whips up amazing things at our place with whatever ingredients he can muster up in the fridge.
This dinner was an invitation to see his newly shared house. We had set the date more than a week in advance and I think that he used the entire time to plan the evening. This meant calling his Mom back home for a family recipe, taking the bus to shop and borrowing pans and bowls from our place.
The meal itself was absolutely wonderful and you could literally taste the love and attention that was baked into the main course pie. Here is his Mom’s recipe. It was in my email “in” box even before I had arrived home.
Italian Pie
The crust:
5 c of flour
¾ c of butter
pinch of salt
1 egg
½ c of sour cream or plain yogurt
½ T of lemon juice
1 t of sugar
Mix flour, butter and salt together. Add the egg, the sour cream, lemon juice and sugar. Delicately mix together and add warm water until a ball can be formed. Make sure you don’t work the dough to much or it will become hard when it bakes. Roll out. Makes enough for the bottom, sides and lid.
Pie:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix 5 eggs, 500 gr of Ricotta cheese, 1 c of Mozarella cheese and 1 c of Parmesan cheese. Take the skin off of 3-4 Italian sausages, break apart and brown in pan. Cool and add to mix. Add 1 cup of defrosted and drained frozen spinach, and 1 c of Italian ham like Prosciutto. Add the mix in the pie crust and place the upper crust on top. Put of a bit of yellow egg on lid and Parmesan. Bake for 1 hour.
He even sent extra pie home with us to feed Daughter #3 who is under the weather. Yes, he’s a keeper.
Kath’s quote: “Pie, pie, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.” -from The Waitress
wow – way to go sebas!
it looks absolutely amazing.