Rhubarb Cream Cheese Hand Pies

Remember that book called How to Win Friends and Influence People? There should have been only one page in that book and it should have been a picture of a hand pie. Hand pies hold the answers to so many of life's little dilemmas. For example, how does one maintain one's dignity when one is caught by one's roommate shaving off a wee bit of pie slice in the middle of the morning? What if one's roommate gives himself a larger slice of pie than you and rather than speak out against this gross injustice one must accept one's cruel fate? The answer, dear friends, to all these problems is the hand pie; a perfect medley of fruit filling and dough, appropriate for any occasion.

Summer Cherry Pie

Is there anything more summery than cherry pie? Maybe, but things such as sunlight, sand, and soft green grass aren't as edible (or at least as tasty). Now that I'm back in Portland and she has decided to temporarily bestow warm, sunny days on all of us I've had summer on my mind pretty much nonstop. Peter's had to break out the fan for the room, and I'm cranking my way through Agatha Christie books like no one's business. And, of course, I'm baking pie.

Mini Triple Berry Pies

Don't let the cute faces fool you. These little mini pies were a bit of a beast to make (admittedly, because at the same time I was making Hot Cross Buns and Cherry Brown Butter Bars). Again, it was my own fault--I was going to make a nice, perfectly easy, perfectly respectable pie but then I darted out of the kitchen with an insane grin on my face and announced to Piper that I was going to make the pies TINY and put LATTICE TOPS over ALL OF THEM! Then Piper had to come crack my back because I had been latticing tiny pie tops for two hours.

But these are cute. And their lattices are tiny. And they did taste good.