Week #5 September 27 - October 3

I have a co-worker that recently put in his two week notice. A good guy, that will be missed from my department. I believed him when he said it was the hardest decision he had to make in a while. Regardless, I asked him what his favorite pie was that I could make for his last day. He gave me a few options, and the best one for me to make was a key lime.

Normally, I would wait until next spring to make a key lime. It is easily one of my favorite pies. I've made it before, but always the easy cool whip version. Not this time. My first time making the true egg yolk, real whip cream version. The one thing I couldn't get was true key limes. I intend to make this pie again with true key limes. Here is the recipe I used.

But it was my first attempt at a homemade crust. For this pie, I made a graham cracker crust.



Instead of fresh key lime juice, I used bottled lime juice. Not ideal. But it's the way it is. True key lime pies are actually a custardy yellow, due to the egg yolks that get beaten with the sweetened condensed milk. What is nice with this version is the fact that there are layers of key lime goodness, with whip cream on top. With the cool whip version, it is all combined into one.

So I made the pie on Thursday night, which has become the typical night I make pies. But my co-worker wasn't to be at work on Friday. I'm not sure the whole story, because I was away recruiting on Wednesday and Thursday. All I know if that his last day ended up being Tuesday. So as silly as it sounds, I wasn't as excited to make it, knowing that he wouldn't be able to try it. My co-workers all enjoyed it. Here is a picture of the finished product.