Pie

Summer can be brutal here. I try to avoid heating up the kitchen if possible, so I haven't been doing much baking at all. (I think since November I have only made one batch of cookies, and pizza for dinner one night. No bread -- this time of year, my sourdough starter is for pancakes only.)

But this week, finally we have had a break, so I made pie! Totally unseasonal, courtesy of a random bunch of rhubarb that was on sale at the grocery store, this is strawberry and rhubarb pie with a streusel topping:

The recipe is from Vegan Pie in the Sky, but for the pastry I tried veganizing this recipe by replacing the butter with coconut oil. My quest to master pie dough continues. This ended up okay, but the texture was short rather than really flaky. I should have known that something was off, when I blithely added the water called for in the recipe and it ended up way too wet. I was able to pour some off, but still it was too wet. (Normally I would have added the water cautiously, but the recipe claims to be for an unusually wet dough and doesn't urge any caution in adding the water.)

We ate this with homemade burnt caramel ice cream, and it was delicious.