Time to come clean: Up until a few months ago, I had never been able to make a pretty pie. I was one of those people that my dad (a professional chef, that taught me how to make my first pie from scratch when I was about 6…) would make fun of. Yup. I’d go out an buy a pie crust from the freezer section of the supermarket. I just figured that pie crusts were super finniky, and frankly, I just didn’t have the time or patience to make them pretty. And honestly, I had run across so many pie crust recipes that called for ingredients to be super cold, or don’t handle much, or… just. No. As the meme goes, “I ain’t got time for that!”
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