Caramel Date Pie [Because Pi is Circumference over Diameter]
Sorry guys, I’m full of math nerdisms lately. Celebrate Pi Day with me and make a candied date pie! You don’t need to put all those dorky things on the pie like I did though.
Archi-meaty Pie [Hey, It’s Almost Pi Day!]
When I was doing research, I remember being cooped up in rooms with no windows and fluorescent lights. I spent most of my day programming, sitting in meetings, analyzing stats and collecting data. This was a little better during the actual experimental phase of the various research projects when I made people wear gigantic headphones, walk around blindfolded or made people run into the wall [accidently]. It was interesting, fun, and you learn a lot about human nature and problem solving. I learned that there are four perks in doing research even though you don’t make a whole lot of money doing it:
- You’re constantly learning new things
- You can say that you’re doing research: it makes you sound fancy and smart
- You can tell math jokes in the comfort of the research lab
- You can celebrate geeky holidays because research people are supposed to be kind of geeky like that: a number related holiday (like 1/23 or 3/14), an anniversary of a theory, or the day that you’re finally given the green light by the IRB.
Once such nerdy holiday is coming up…that would be Pi Day (3/14). I made a sweet and savory meat pie because I wanted to take advantage of Archimedes’ name and be able to say Archi-meaty. Word play!
Archimedes tried to approximate the value of pi by drawing a bunch of polygons with a bunch of different sides via method of exhaustion, to make it as close to a perfect circle as possible. Here’s my recipe for the Archi-Meaty Pie, a Greek inspired lamb pie with apples and raisins.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m well enough to bake so I made these double chocolate chip cookies. It has honey in it!
Upside Down Apple Cake
My boss is very enthusiastic about me baking because he knows that I’ll bring it to work the next day for everyone in the office. Every week, he reminds me to take the leftover office apples [from our school seminars] home to bake something. I take advantage of the free apples of course; this is where 80% of the apples for my Apple Tart Project came from. I just wish my office gave away butter because I use more of that. This week, with the leftover apples, I made an upside down apple cake.
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