side dish: Good-pie!

We pride ourselves on being able to enjoy both the finer and, uh, coarser foods in life. When $5.99 pie month rolls around at Marie Callendar's, Delicacheena is there with the pie tin deposit. And we're a sucker for the "limited time" flavors. Who are we kidding? "Limited time" induces us to purchase many of the un-necessities of life.

On March 4th, the planets were aligned just right and the end of the $5.99 deal coincided with the start of the Lemon Cream Surpreme's limited appearance. (The specialty pie was not on-sale.) We bought two pies to take advantage of the six bucks deal and to get the Surpreme--UE is not big on lemon and it was a stressful weekend.

The Lemon Cream Surpreme is described as Boston cream pie with a touch of lemon, but that is not accurate. It's more of a "Cake or pie? Why not both?" In the traditional pie crust, there are layers of yellow cake, pudding/cream and lemon filling. Why not?

The coconut cream pie and its too-sweet-and-creamy goodness is just like mom never made.