This is why I let other people make my pie crusts. And my pie.

I mostly don't make pie and just drink the vodka.

I remember it being super wet and sticky, and near impossible to roll out.

So many of the comments on the Serious Eats thread about it use words like "fondant" and "cookie dough" to describe the texture (when rolling it out) that I kind of want to try it again to see if I can get it right. But this version did not go well. (Don't get me wrong, I still wound up with a pie at the end of the night, so it wasn't all bad. Our babysitter accidentally defrosted some fresh pumpkin thinking it was applesauce so I really had no choice.)

I have the House of Pies. I would be pleased if someone would open a Piezakhstan somewhere so we could have Pie Summits.

Allyson, that also means you have a Dresden Room and that great used bookstore that I have spent far too much $$ at. (Unless it closed and I will have the sads).

She actually said, "It's important for teachers to take every answer with equal weight and not say things are wrong."

Sandra Boynton did a comic in which the teacher says, "There's no such thing as a wrong answer, but if there were, that would be one."

We learn a lot through failure, mainly about what to avoid.

Indeed! I have learned not to over-handle pie crusts. And to make sure that the water isn't so hot that it kills the yeast when I make bread. Both of those mistakes have resulted in me throwing out a lot of organic material and starting over...

Just noticed they are doing street cleaning on my street tomorrow. Which means no legal parking on the block all day. Hello, polling station? If this weren't Chicago I'd raise an eyebrow.

It also means I have to move the car by 8, so I'm still irked.

The used book store near Wackos? I'm not sure if it's still there. Skylight Books is still there a block down from the Dresden, though.

I did the vodka crust, and it worked quite well for me. But, I don't have a food processor, so I did it all very much by hand.

I do think there's a difference between a student being wrong because they're wrong and a student being wrong because it's not what it says int eh answer key (I still maintain that I have given perfectly valid answers that were counted wrong because they were not the "official" answer)

There's a difference between creating an environment where it's okay to be wrong than creating an environment where nothing is correct.

I would encourage people to take chances and risk error. I would also want to give the critical tools to allow discernment.