Jeju Chocolate and Dessert List Lately

Missing the peach mango pie from my homeland makes me want to splurge on this small packets currently available in Mc Donald's this month. 

They have the blueberry and apple pocket pies sold sold separately for 1K. It's not exactly the peach-mango one but hey, a pie is a pie for a pie-lover like me. I tasted the blueberry one but missed out the apple so I just had to come back there yesterday and buy 5. My initial idea was ten...I scaled it down a bit. I'll have the boys taste it and I'm coming back for more next time. I, myself, can finish 2 at least. There 3 frozen ones now but I am still thinking about them. *sigh I may have to satisfy my cravings for these soon and resolve to try to make ones myself. A lot of it! :D (That is --- if I can.)

On the note of desserts, here is another one on my list if ever I hear Jeju. One of my students went there last summer and brought home some for me. It was just sweet of her. Most of them actually brought home something which was sweetly funny. Bamboo towel from China, some special/fancy dark chocolate from Japan (which I forgot the name) and this one from Jeju. 

My Pie Crust Journey

On the brighter side of the day, I finally got around to making a decent pie crust. Still a long way to go before perfection but I'll get there. I tried the sweet potato pie yesterday with a mixture of pride and a bit disappointment. 

Today is different. I really feel more confident that I can finally make pineapple pie, apple pie or maybe something more challenging next time. Nothing much really for commercial consumption yet but at least I need not to buy. ;). Coz I can eat my pie. ;) May take a bit of time and money, yes. But the personal satisfaction of something you made yourself is enough.

Flashback.

Growing up in the tropics where apples are not grown made me think of apple pie as so faraway. I mean, you really would need a lot of apples to make a pie. To buy here would be quite expensive. I have yet to figure that out when I really make one. Gotta go with the pineapple first as it is a bit cheap nowadays.

Pineapple pie is something that reminded me of university days, which by the way is not that long ago. I used to drop by at this spot before I get i the second ride on the way to school. This pie would be my snack later between classes as it is usually very sunny to go out to buy later. It might seem a bit over my student budget but it was my "sweet indulgence" of sort.

Later on, a few years after I graduated, the store disappeared and I've never tasted the pies again. There used to pineapple, mango, buko and of course egg pie. I'm not sure what were the other pies there but the pineapple and mango were my favorites.

My first pie trial this month was the mango coz we were able to find a bit cheaply priced per kilo but it wasn't that good. It was flat. I've no idea what happened exactly. I'll figure next mango season for another trial and error study. The crust was actually what I was trying out at that time as I felt I needed to figure out the pie crust baking before I ride out to different pies. I'm definitely going back to mango pies one day when I have the luxury for errors. ;)

Right now, I can only be too happy to try the pineapple pie.

Ah! Here's a list of things to note.
When I googled for mango pie recipe, there was a bit less simple recipes that I found. Apple, of course is very popular. Pineapple pie recipes are not that bad either. Not that intimidating for a beginner like me.

fave places for recipes;

allrecipes.com, recipezar.com, maangchi's channel on youtube (she's also on blogger, btw). Ah! I may have to write another entry on that sometime soon.

Gotta get back to life! Til my next pie adventure!