Gluten Free Holiday Pies

One of the things I've been missing since going GF 10 years ago is pie. I was never a big pie eater, but once you can't have something it tastes so much better!

So this year for Thanksgiving I thought I'd give it a go, trying to make pies myself. Mind you that I'm a geek, a computer nerd. I spend 99% of my waking time online, I have at least 65 websites of my own, I have virtually no experience cooking the sorts of things that involve dough and ovens.

But I realized if I wanted to have pie, I was going to have to make it. I have good news, I made an apple pie and a cherry pie and they both came out very well.

For the bottom crust I used Teff flour from Bob's Red Mill and this recipe which was trivial. For the filling I used canned pie filling from the supermarket (mmmm, sugar), and for the top I sprinkled a blend of sorghum flour, brown rice flour, and soy yogurt which I had worked up into little granules.

Well, the pies were delicious, and now pie is back into the repertoire of gluten free, vegan foods that I can have.

The rest of our Thanksgiving dinner was good too. My partner made his wonderful gluten free vegan lasagna and I made my traditional slow cooked baked beans. I also made a stuffing too. It was a great harvest holiday, I hope yours was too.

Steve