American Pie

The Quickfire assignment? Pie. It's not often that Top Chef asks the chefs to make something that I dearly love but pie certainly fits into that category. It wasn't a hard assignment, two hours to make a pie. That is if you've made a pie before. If not, then you're kinda screwed.

Especially when Gail is here to pimp her new show, Top Chef Just Desserts. Seems that Gail will be hosting while Johnny Iuzzini...

...will be the Head Judge. Is he supposed to remind me of Bowzer?

Thank goodness that Hubert Keller will also be a judge because I'm not sure about Johnny. But enough about Just Desserts, let's have some PIE!

Except we're suddenly bombarded with chefs confessing to never having made a pie. So we at home must all pause and think, damn, I've made a pie. Hell I've made a lot of pies. I dream about the beauty of a well made, delicious and juicy peach pie. I want to go there. What's wrong with these people? Why wouldn't you want to make a pie?? It's un-American.

Is Top Chef harboring a bunch of panty waist Momma's boys? Scared of a little pie crust? No wonder America is going to hell in a hand basket.

Too busy with their foams to get down and dirty with the pie. It's just wrong.

No. She did not just say that? First thing I think of? Obvious member of the just busted Russian spy ring. Her name's not Sherry at all, it's Natasha.

Somebody please, make us some pie.

Whoa, hit the pause button. When you go by the title of Executive Chef at your restaurant, this is not what one expects your pie made from scratch to look like.

Sherry/Natasha isn't doing much better as she tries to explain to Johnny that she's not a pastry chef. Johnny promptly smacks her down with his grandmother's pie prowess.

Ed blames/is inspired by Johnny to go cracktastic with a banana cream pie, salted nuts and celery spuma.

Perhaps a Boris to our Natasha?

You decide.

The winning pie is Kenny's
Bananas Foster Pie with Currants and Chinese Five Spice
If you'd like to try making Kenny's pie yourself, click here for the recipe
As for me, I'm hitting the farmer's market for fresh peaches. Yeah baby!