Key Lime Pie!

Made one yesterday for my husband for Father's Day (O.K. I know it's late but we've been busy the last few weeks!). It took 2+ hours... getting zest and squeezing those tiny limes took forever. And I made the graham cracker crust and whipped cream from scratch.

It was VERY good, pretty sweet though, but my husband and daughter LOVED it. I thought it would be green, but it was gold from the egg yolks and the key lime juice is yellow. I'm not one to add artificial colors...

Anybody else ever had Key Lime Pie?

MmMmmMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmMMmmMM

Ohhhhhhh man I LOVE key lime pie!!!!!

ooo yes we had it in the best place to have it - Key West never made it myself but I know theres lots of variations

Ha ha, shortcuts! NOW you tell me!

I'll have to check if they have those in Canada. My husband had it in Pie Town, New Mexico and that's why he asked for it!

I thought it would be like lemon pie with limes instead but it's completely different.

I love key lime pie. Big thumbs up with the homeade graham cracker crust, it tastes so much better when made from scratch. I always make my own crust when making cheesecake.

Originally Posted by mooficat

ooo yes we had it in the best place to have it - Key West

never made it myself but I know theres lots of variations

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Yep and it's great down there.

There is a TOWN in NEW MEXICO that makes PIES?

Somebody post a map, please?

I absoultely love key lime pie! I've had it several places and never disliked one of them! I ought to try making one from scratch sometime!

One of my favorite pies.

My Dad was the dessert maker in our family, and Key Lime Pie was one of his specialties. Major YUMMMMMMM!

ohhh that sounds like it was deliscious!!!!!!

No, never tried it. I like lime squeezed into the occasional thing that I'm cooking, and even into my Diet Coke, but I would think a whole pie made of that flavour would be too over whelming for me.

However, if I ever do have to make a lime pie, I'll just use regular limes. I saw those key limes a few times at Safeway and they are way too little for me to work with and I'd run out of motivation before they were all sqeezed, lol

Thank you for the link, SW! Turns out Pie Town is just 90 miles from Albuquerque, and we have a friend in the mountains near there that we keep threatening to visit -- the gentleman who helped my father find a publisher for his book, in fact.

So... since both my father and I are of the opinion that there's not much on this earth that couldn't be improved by putting a piecrust around it... PIE TOWN, HERE WE COME!

Well, the Key Lime Pie is all gone now, so cherry pie is up next! Local ripe, sweet BC cherries are just $1.98 per pound, and I make a healthy crust and sweeten the pie with honey so it's really good and low-guilt!

Anybody going to want cherry pie?

First time i had Key Lime Pie was at my works xmas party, tasted niceish!

Pass up those recipes i need to improve my cooking skills!

Just hold that cherry pie up to your monitor and hit SEND!