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[kayt.renteria]

It’s 1AM & I barely finished baking my pie using your crust & blueberry pie recipe. & lemme just say... I am OBSESSED. It’s flavorful & the crust is perf! I’ve been on the hunt for a good recipe for a while & came across your channel. THANK GOD I DID! I just subscribed because you explain things so well & I absolutely love your energy! Definitely looking forward to trying more of your recipes 💛

[lg]

Videos are great. I enjoy the background music, the conversational cadence and simplified explanations. It's like hanging out in the same room. Thanks for the lessons.

[RevealedX]

Kind of feel like I'm gaining the childhood and wisdom of a homestyle Italian kitchen even tho i'm not Italian

[kathyberken]

Excellent recipe and technique! I will try the egg wash inside the bottom crust.
Never thought of cooking the berries first, so I might try that, and also add the nutmeg.
I do prefer using tapioca instead of cornstarch, because that's how my mother baked pies. The ancestors came from Germany, so pies were a big deal!
I sprinkled the top with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
Otherwise, your recipe looks fantastic. Including the pie crust, which I saw earlier.

Wondering why you used unsalted butter. You don't have any salt in the berry mixture. I think a little salt would also bring out the flavor.

[joanies]

OMG. I love Joe's relationship with vanilla and nutmeg. 🤗 I totally related! Trying the pie crust today.

[donatemple]

I cook My Apples this way for Apple Pie, just until they start to give off moisture. Makes a very good pie.

[joyicechase]

Another way you can save the bottom pie crust is if you take like a tablespoon of powdered sugar and sprinkle it in the bottom of it and up on the sides of it and leave a thin layer of it all over it that right there will also do the same thing as the egg wash

[tinakastning]

Joe, PLEASE add written recipes!!! I love your recipes and I watch them, but I would love to have the recipes as well.

[HelpBeyondChurch]

Wow! That’s pretty awesome! The music kinda makes me feel a little Christmasy! It’s cool actually! My favorite part is when your camera woman brings you back and your face is like 😃! The whole thing is just so cool!! Glad I subscribed! My opinion is if people don’t have anything good to just shut. You’re actually showing what’s in your heart and it ain’t pretty. Great job Joe and “camera woman”!

[rwatts]

Hey Joe! Great videos....FYI, lemon juice is added to the blueberries when cooking them for flavor, yes, but the acid in the lemon juice also helps to release / develop the natural pectin in the berries. The pectin and the corn starch or tapioca flour will help keep the juices from the berries from being runny.

Always add the vanilla after you remove the berries from heat. Let the cooked berries cool down before you add the vanilla as the vanilla is VERY delicate and the heat will destroy it.

Thanks for sharing your expertise and videos with all of us...

[douglasfox]

Camera work needs improvement! It would be helpful to clearly see what Joe is speaking about. Focus and close shots please!

[NancyBJM]

Looks like a terrific recipe. Just one thing: I've lived in Italy for 36 years and have never seen anyone bake a pie but me (and my children). Pie is American, as far as I know, but definitely delicious, and your recipe for both the crust and the filling look super.

[pattywolfe]

Joe I'm salivating here😋😋😋you made your Nona proud😉only thing I wish us that I was there too share a piece of that delisoso Blueberry Pie /vanilla
ice cream nice touch🥳🥳🥳I cant wait to try this recipe have a blessed Sunday💗💗💗

[ovenbird]

I love what lemon does to blueberries, and I also always add a dash of freshly gerated nutmeg to any blueberry recipe, so I would add about a half teaspoon of nutmeg. I always grate nutmeg right into the liquid or the batter because the flavor notes I like are so volotile that they are quickly lost in the air. No mis en place for nutmeg in my kitchen.

[sheriroserocks]

He's cute, too. Like his style.

[pattierose]

Can I just adopt you? Love the presentation and the music is what I grew up on in my Italian Grama's house. Now I am teaching my grandkids what I learned from and you... Thanks, Joe! Keep it going!

[judymohre]

Amazing, so glad I found your channel! I subscribed, and I'm part ITALIAN. My mother's father, Antonio Giacovelli was from Bari. I taught both my daughter and son to bake and cook when they were small children. Barely out of diapers. They both love to cook and now are passing on the tradition. And the sugar on top of this great teaching lesson was playing Volara at the end. My mother's FAVORITE SONG. It brought tears to my eyes. I miss her every day. She made the most amazing strawberry glaze pie, coconut cream, lemon pie, banana cream pie, strudel, ..her crust to was fabulous. Coffee cakes all good Italian and French was her forte...on and on and on. Oh, almost forgot to tell you her merrange. SPELLING was the highest I've ever seen. She was French and Italian descent. A very beautiful and talented woman. A talented designer of clothing..only for her daughter's and granddaughters, and an amazing impressions artist. 💌🎀💌 I make my crust like you do although now I will add the milk instead of cold, cold water. Thank you so much.

[KalaSwetha]

I am watching you for the first time and already fell in love with you. The music is great. Your voice is so warm and sexy. You put me to sleep after a tiring long day. And yeah the recipe is great too. Thank you Joe. Love you.

[lailaferdousi]

For blueberry filling pie :
Refridgerated prepared pie crust
4 pints (48oz or 8 cups) blueberry
4 table spoon lemon juice
1 cup suger
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 & half tbs corn starch
Little nutmeg
3 tbs butter
Egg mixed with little milk (eggwash)
METHOD:
Mix blueberry, half lemon juice, suger & vanilla in a pan before warming it up. When coming to boil stir in the corn starch mixed with 2 tbs lemon juice, just as it comes to a simmer.
When bubbling mix in 2 secret ingredients: nutmeg & butter.
Cook until thickend.
Let it cool before puting it in pie.
Eggwash pie pastry before adding blueberry filling so the crust doesn't go soggy.
Eggwash top of pie & sprinkle in some suger for caramalised top crust. Cut some slits on top of pie for steam to escape.
Cook in 375f (190C) preheated oven for 45-60 minutes checking every 15 minutes and turning it if it needs to be turned for even cooking all around.
Let it cool for atleast 30 minutes before refridgerating it to let it set before eating.
Tastes good with vanilla ice cream.

[mary-patroberts]

My mother died a few years ago and she was known for her great meals and wonderful pies. Your love of butter makes me smile and topping your pies with milk and egg wash. As most of the world, I am on self isolating except for a walk in the coulees with my dog. Tired when I got home I tuned in to utube and watched your video on pie crusts and blueberry pie. Thanks, you brought wonderful memories and the smell of great cooking from my Mom and Grandmother as if it was only yesterday. You brightened your viewers day.