A series about recipes that may seem odd or outmoded and yet we're curious to try!

“I'm going to make an Impossible Pie today,” I announced.

“What's an Impossible Pie?” asked my six-year-old son, just as I hoped he would for the purpose of writing this introduction. “Is it a pie that no one's ever made before?”

“No,” I said.

I was about to go on when my husband spoke up, “Well, when you think about it, every pie is a pie that no one's ever made before…"

There was a brief silence.

My son later guessed that an Impossible Pie must be "very, very hard [...]

The first in a series about recipes that may seem odd or outmoded and yet we're curious to try!

A couple of weeks ago, in the brief throes of a fit of domesticity after spending too much time looking at pictures on Martha Stewart's website, I took the kids to a local farm and purchased a five-pound bag of Gravensteins grown in the farm's orchard. We then went home to make a delicious apple pie. While I was double-checking the ingredients we would need—other than apples, of course—I happened upon a recipe for Chemical Apple Pie. This chemical pie was supposed to taste just like apple pie without [...]