WASHINGTON - Pie #47 of 50 - June 2021 - Dave Stine
State Fruit: Apple
State Vegetable: Walla Walla Sweet Onion
I have never been to Washington!
I have such big dreams to go to Seattle, wander Pike Place Market and buy so many things I do not need and end the evening with a dinner at Canlis where I will definitely get the Caesar salad and a martini. Yes I have an outfit planed, and yes is it a @bigbudpress jumpsuit.
The Seattle season of Top Chef is also one of my most favorite because it introduced me too Sheldon Simeon. Who I just feel is a gem of a human that I want to spend a day at the beach with while eating spam musubis and playing ukulele.
The pie to capture this state in all its glory had to be a Rainier cherry and apple pie BUT I had to take it up a notch and decided to do a potato chip crumble. Who doesn’t love a sweet salty textural adventure. All the crispy crooks and craggles of the crumble as rocky as the Cascade mountains.
The Rainier cherry is named after the state’s famous volcano peak and was developed at Washington State University in Prosser, WA by cross-breeding the Bing and Van varieties of cherries! The state grows more sweet cherries than any other region in the nation.
Washington is also the nations top apple producing state and the apple became the states symbol in 1989 in its centennial year.
The potato chips I got came all the way from the state it self! I used Tim’s Cascade Style potato chips! Which hail from Auburn, WA. In 1988, Tim’s was named “the best potato chip in Seattle.” As a die hard Cape Cod chip fan I have to say these are DELICIOUS!
This pie is dedicated to my friend and fellow BTS Army member, Dave Stine. Dave is originally from New Jersey but has called the great state of Washington home for the past decade. He lives there with his lovely wife Amy. All of us went to SCAD together in Savannah, GA! Dave makes incredible music with his band Weeknites check em out! I sent Dave and Amy the top secret recipe for this pie so they could make their own since I couldn’t get my butt out there. A top shelf pie for a top shelf friend. I couldn’t have survived the turmoil of last years and this years events without constant support from Dave and Amy.
The Evergreen state I long to visit you. I am constantly green with envy.
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