Pillsbury Easy As Pie: 140 Simple Recipes + 1 Readymade Pie Crust = Sweet Success – A Delicious Guide to Flaky Bakes and Decorative Finishes (Pillsbury Cooking Book 75)

PILLSBURY EASY AS PIE is a great recipe book, even though it's designed to sell Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts! My husband loves pies, so this was a birthday gift--along with a promise to use the book fairly often during the coming year.The book has simple recipes for most standard dessert pies (e.g., apple, strawberry, pecan, pumpkin, lemon meringue, banana cream), as well as many more recipes for less standard pies (e.g., French silk chocolate, cherry-blueberry, ginger-pear, apricot-coconut cream). In addition, there are many simple, delicious-sounding recipes for dinner pies and quiches (e.g., chicken or turkey pot pie, several kinds of empanadas, California cheeseburger pie, ham and broccoli quiche, crab quiche, leek quiche). There are 140 different recipes in all.Some of the recipes call for canned fillings or frozen fruits or vegetables, but most are written for fresh ingredients. None of the recipes actually require the use of Pillsbury ready-made refrigerated pie crust--you can mix and roll your own crust--but in fact the Pillsbury crusts are quite good. They produce a thin, crisp crust that doesn't burn easily. (You can find them in your grocery store's cold case.) The book also includes an excellent discussion of how to handle pie crust (with instructions for making several different decorative edges), and very good information on baking and freezing pies.I purchased the Kindle edition, which displays beautifully--with gorgeous color photos--on my 1st Gen Fire and my 8.9" Fire HD. The Kindle edition also displays the recipes clearly on my Kindle Keyboard, but the b&w photos aren't nearly as mouth-watering. I was hoping to be able to print out the recipes (which would not be possible from a printed book), but you can't print directly from the Kindle edition. What you can do is copy and paste text into a word processor file, if you open the Kindle edition in Amazon's free Kindle for PC desktop application.In my experience, brand-name cookbooks often have the very best recipes for plain, traditional American cooking. This book is no exception.

Love this cookbook. Recipes for many dishes that can be mad in a pie plate. Everything from breakfast to main dishes to desserts. Every time I gift/donate a pie dish I include this cookbook. A great first cookbook.

Obviously this is a plug for pre-made pie crust, but I didn't realize that many of the recipes called for canned fruit filling. I'm not a big fan of filling plus the recipe didn't give me any fresh or frozen fruit equivalents. I assumed that the "easy" part was the crust, not pre-made ingredients as well. I was disappointed in that. Some winning recipes from the different bake-offs are included which I thought was nice.

This was a gift. It was well received. That is all I can say. My grandson, the gift recipient, loves it. He is a college student and pie baking has turned into a form of therapy for him. The great thing is that all the rest of us in the family benefit too.

Not what I expected. I was really wanting something easy where I just make the fillings. This book kinda has us manipulate the refrigerated crust. I wanted something really simple.

This book was purchased for my English Language student who has taken an interest in pies. I looked at several pie books, and chose this one because the directions are easy to follow. The recipes themselves are simple, not exotic and complicated. The photos are also excellent.

The Pillsbury East As Pie Cook Book is just what it says. GREAT delicious pie recipes that every one that loves pies will love this cook book.It shipped quickly and I received it fast.Good Price and in Good Shape.Thank you.

I lost my pie recipe book that I have had for years from Pillsbury. Went on the Amazon site and found this book. It is excellent. Lots of great recipes and well worth the cost. Thanks for the quick delivery!