pie contest

I went to the KCRW pie contest this past weekend, even though it was quite warm out, I couldn’t resist the allure of pie. They had a vegan section and I was able to sample a few of the pies. There were a handful of savory pies like the one above, but they were mostly sweet pies. There was a lot of pie (so please excuse me if I get some of the flavors slightly off).

This fruit pie had an awesome shortbread crust.

Some of the vegan pies were also gluten free, like this cherry ginger pie.

I ran into Trina who made this delicious lemon cream pie.

Veronica made this amazing pumpkin pecan pie. I’m not even a fan of nuts and it was really good.

Did I mention it was hot out? It was rough on the cream pies like this chocolate pudding pie with coconut cream.

There were lattice berry pies and apple pies. I kind of just wanted to eat pie forever. I ended up making seitan pot pie for our food share inspired by all these pies.

There were lots of pretty pies that weren’t vegan that I’ll share below for the sake inspiration, because they could of course easily be made vegan. In truth I don’t know who won but it was fun to sample. Perhaps next year I’ll enter a pie myself.