So, in the "Not Pies" section of this site, I recently announced that I'm doing a chocolate chip cookie series (which is basically what it sounds like: a lot of cookies) and now I'm about to announce another (probably short-lived) series: The Chess Pie series! In which I shall experiment with various chess pies of my own design, featuring some of my favorite ingredients. The first is this: Orange Blossom Honey. 

Filling
1/2 cup butter (browned)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange...
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 For this chess pie, I tried out a yogurt crust which ended up being perfect. The honey filling melts in your mouth with a sweet nutmeg flavor and the flaky yogurt crust adds a little bit of substance to each bite with a nice full (but not sweet) flavor. This is everything that I think chess pies should be - simple flavors (honey & nutmeg) captured in familiar textures (custard & pastry) to create something that compliments delicately or stands alone competently. And it goes ...
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 This is what I shall henceforth refer to as a ‘learning pie’. I learned lots of things with this pie. 

1. My oven gets very hot towards the back and hovers around room temperature towards the front. (I suspect that an inadequate seal on the door is responsible for this, and I probably should have put it together sooner that the lovely hot spot that springs up in my kitchen while baking was the silver lining of some kind of sub-par appliance issue. Apartment...

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