Thursday, March 14, 2013

Happy π Day!

Happy Pi day!! #forschool

Pi day is sweeping the nation.
Katie asked me to make a pie for school.
My husband even said they were asked to bring pies to work.

We homeschoolers have been doing this for ages.

Funny to see the masses join in with the mathematical nerdiness.

Katie tells me that Super π Day is right around the corner: 2015.

3.14.15

(anything to make math more fun, that's what I say!)

And if you want to make a pi symbol with your Mac.

Click option > p

π

You've...
been schooled.

BTW, the pie I made is Pioneer Woman's chocolate pie.
It is Katie's favorite.

Delicious Chocolate Pie aka French Silk


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“Thank God for, as I posted earlier, the glow of work accomplished. Because a few seconds later, someone on the internet mentioned pie. I don’t blame them. It’s a good subject. But pie was mentioned and I remembered there was strawberry-rhubarb pie in the refrigerator. So I went there. And pie there was none. I suspect the teenaged boy has inhaled it. And now I cling to life and hope as best I can, because my world is dark and pieless.” ~Tad Williams


I do not know who Tad Williams is...but I liked this funny quote.


Happy pie day!

I hope I get a piece.

Encourage one another!
Donna

~~What is your favorite pie?








45 comments:

  1. My favorite pie is cherry.

    I am most proud of the fact that I remembered to make the pie and that Katie remembered to take it to school.

    True Success.

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    1. Cherry is my fav, too. I always insist we have it at Thanksgiving.

      hmbalison

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  2. That pie in the picture is my favorite. But I love whipped cream on top. Oh My.

    Math. Not my favorite thing.

    Happy Thursday all!

    Di

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    1. I must def. eat this pie with whipped cream. Katie said
      They will have it at school. I must have whipped cream with this...not cool whip.

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    2. Not cool whip. The only way to write cool whip is with "not" in front of it (-:

      Di

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    3. Anonymous11:07 AM

      {LIKE}
      S.P. from Iowa

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    4. Real whipped cream is the best. I will never go back to cool whip.

      hmbalison

      p.s. Now I'm hungry for pie. Yesterday I was hungry for chicken. This blog is dangerous for my diet. :)

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  3. I love so many pies. Two of my favs: peanut butter and butterscotch! Topped with whipped cream. Sorry meringue, I do not care for you.

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  4. Anonymous10:23 AM

    How refreshing to know there is still a school that allows home made goodies and not store bought, individually wrapped only!
    Favorite pie: Good Door County cherry pie Ala Mode of course!

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  5. Anonymous10:23 AM

    OPPS.............that was me, Karen F.

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  6. I even like Hostess Cherry Pies.

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    1. Anonymous10:44 AM

      (((Like))) Mary Z

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  7. Anonymous10:44 AM

    My favorite pie is blueberry, but truth be known, I like them all. Yours looks delish!

    Jamey's nickname is Pie. When he was a baby, he was Pumpkin Pie, later shortened to Pie. A nickname that has stuck for over 25 years. We always tell him today's his day! :)

    Mary Z

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  8. Aw! I didn't know that!
    Happy Day Jamie!!!

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  9. Anonymous11:09 AM

    My iPad quit letting me enter my name/URL so I have to post as Anonymous. :(

    My fave pie is pecan. I make it every Thanksgiving and some years on Christmas too. I'm with you and Di on NO Cool Whip. Terry's stomach aches any time he eats it and real whipping cream is SO easy to make with a stand mixer. In a pinch, the stuff in the spray can (real whipped cream) will do.

    I love math geekieness and can't wait for Super Pi Day. QL is where I heard it first!

    Sandy C. (Not really anonymous. :)

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  10. Anonymous11:17 AM

    Oh dear, I can't narrow it down to just one. My Great Grandma G's cherry pie and Grandma Pasut's strawberry pie are fav's. Then there is Tasty Kitchen's, Grandma Inez's pineapple pie (I don't do meringue). And I also love custard and chocolate. Oh ya, and Grandma Irene's blackberry pie....warm with half-n-half poured over it.

    Lord have mercy!

    Sarah P. from Iowa

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  11. My Grandmother's apple pie was always my favorite. She would let me eat it straight out of the pie plate, nice and cold from the fridge, on my birthday every year. My cousin would try to fight me for it. :-) She's been gone for 3 years now, and I probably haven't had HER pie in 10 years or more. I make it for myself now, and every time it gets a little bit closer to how Grandmother made it. And I still prefer it cold. Straight out of the fridge (and the pie plate!).

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  12. I agree, math stinks. We had two hours of tears and long division in our home yesterday. Today we will have cherry pie, right out of the box in the freezer, shh, don't tell!

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  13. I know what you mean, my kids did PI day in school a decade ago and its just now catching on.
    My PIE (Pie sympbol) makes awesome pizzas in Lincoln Park

    My favorite pie is bakers square French silk

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  14. Lemon Meringue! And not the creamy lemon. The weird gel like unnatural substance lemon. : )

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  15. My mom graciously made Kaishon 2 apple pies today for school. She really is the best. I used to make blueberry cheese pie that was out of this world. Now I don't do cool things any more. : )

    Now I edit every minute I am at the house. In fact, I have sixty million things I have to edit before Kaish gets off the bus. That gives me 120 minutes. I better get off the blog right this second.

    Happy Thursday to my favorite pie maker.

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  16. I forgot about Key Lime. I LOVE key lime pie.

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  17. Anonymous12:14 PM

    Chocolate pie, and I totally agree, it must have real whipped cream on top and I shave a bit of good chocolate over the whipped cream as well. My second favorite is probably pumpkin pie, there again it must have a dollop of real whipped cream on top. I think pumpkin is the best pie leftover and eaten for breakfast the next morning. Mmmmm...what a way to start the day.
    Debbie Z.

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  18. I gave my husband the perfect gift this past Christmas... Pie of the Month club. I promise to make him a pie every single month of the year. He was very excited about the gift, since pie is his favorite thing ever, and he claims I never make it. :) I should've planned to make March's pie today!! Your pie looks scrumptious. I think my favorite is coconut cream, but truly my favorite is whatever kind is in front of me. :)

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  19. I like coconut cream and pecan pie. I hardly ever make it, I would rather make cookies or cake. My husband loves pie, but not pecan or coconut. He likes fruit pies. He's not a very big sweet eater. But when he was in Iraq he ate pie every day at the dining facility. I feel like a bad wife for not making him the one thing he does like that is sweet. I think I have made from scratch 1 pie (pecan) our whole marriage. They usually come from a box. Maybe I will make him a scratch pie for Easter. Real whipped cream is a must. Agreeing with those above. I've noticed that most of our Texas relatives/friends think chocolate pie is the thing. Every Texas gathering I've been to around Thanksgiving or Christmas has chocolate pie. I wonder if that is a regional thing.

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  20. Rachel,
    Do you thinking using a frozen crust would help? They are not so bad and take away half the work!!
    Or a graham cracker crust. Those are easy!
    You could make one tonight!!

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  21. Oh pie, how do I adore you? Let me count the ways... No wait, we'd be here all day. Chocolate, strawberry, rhubarb, apple. I could go on and on. And what about Chicken pot pie? That sounds delish for dinner!

    I've been celebrating pi day for some, oh, *cough*20*cough* years now. Ever since my first year at da Michigan Tech. We're engineering/math geeks like that.

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  22. πr^2. No pie are not square. Cornbread are square. Pie are round.

    My husband tells this joke every time someone mentions pi around our house.

    Now my son is begging me to go get apples for an apple pie. ;)

    We love strawberry banana and Nestle Tollhouse Pie, too.

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  23. Cococut cream pie ... Bob Evans has the best!
    And peach pie, yum yum!

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  24. Oh and just thought of my favorite pie story. When my mother was a newlywed, in 1950, she decided to make a lemon meringue pie. Said she to herself, "well any fool can make meringue. Just beat egg whites til stiff and spread on the pie." And into the "icebox" it went. When ready to serve it that night to my dad, she took it out, but to her horror the meringue was the size of a cookie because she'd forgotten to add the sugar!

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  25. Lemon ice box, pecan, and the choc. one you made Donna. Can you drop one in a box filled with dry ice and send it to GA? LOL

    Math------my headache. I am conducting a survey of incidental people, asking them: How many times in the last week have you used any math above basic mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division). I jot down their profession and approximate age. When I get to 100 people, I will decide what to do w/ my info. There is a lot to my madness, and I won't take up so much room/time to describe it now.

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  26. We had Pi Day at school. We always celebrate it. This year we sold McDonald's hamburgers as a fund raiser for the math dept. We did buddy exercises in the cafeteria that taught the little ones what Pi actually is (of course, they thought there would be delicious pie). We had one lower schooler with a middle schooler and an upper schooler and everyone worked in threes - all 500 of them in three different sessions. It was really nice to see.

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  27. Sounds fantastic Kate!!! What a great school.
    Katie's school only ate pie.

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  28. I should have planned on making a pie!! I am out of flour. Who runs out of flour?! :P I might be able to make a cheesepie (a mock cheesecake), but it's getting late! I could still eat it! ha! :) I would have to say that is one of my favorite pies. It's much easier than cheesecake, but soooo delicious. I also love key lime, and cherry!
    Is your chocolate pie the one PW does with raw eggs? I just couldn't do that. But if it's cooked? YUM! Yours looks awesome!
    P.S. I started the Bonhoeffer book. I had tears in my eyes on the title page. And then I couldn't stop at the first chapter, and I read until 1am. I got a stern look from my hubby. ;) (But he was up too!)

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  29. So happy you are reading the book!!!
    It is the pie with the raw eggs.

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  30. P.S. I did not get a piece of pie :o(

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    1. That is a shame that you did not get a piece of pie! Or, it means you just have to make another pie, darnit! ;)

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  31. Anonymous8:29 PM

    Finally checking in here...we have had sick grandchildren, so have been helping out. PIE, oh me of my PIE...didn't someone sing a pie song in the movie Michael about the angel, the one with John Travolta. I don't remember much about the movie except the pie song. I have read several pie hunting books. The one I can recall is American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads by Pascale Le Draoulec. It is written by a first generation French/American young woman who moved from San Francisco to New York and on the way tried all the best pie places and includes recipes. A fun book. My favorite pie is probably one served at a diner here in town: chocolate fudge and pecan pie. The pie crust is made out of pecans and some secret ingredient, but not flour and then the fudge is out of this world delicious filling with real whipped cream on top. Ugh, I am getting hungry. ;-) love and prayers, jep

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    1. I love they pie song from "Michael " :-)

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  32. In San Francisco in the United lounge eating free food and wifi - what a yummy pie!

    I love Lemon Meringue and Strawberry Rhubarb :-)

    Will enjoy reading these comments once I am settled in Seattle

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  33. Oops forgot - I love love love key lime pie!!

    Did you see the movie Waitress?

    Ok going to my gate

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    1. Hi Susan! You made it! Almost . I was thinking about you :)

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    2. In Seattle :-) I just read all the comments and I REALLY could go for some pie! !

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  34. I'm not a pie girl.... oh, except Key Lime Pie... and maybe Pumpkin Pie.... oh, and there was a frozen Creme de Menthe pie that my mom used to make, but that was sort of like mint chocolate chip ice cream so that doesn't really count.... oh, I am so hungry right now! xo

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