Every now and then we think up an idea that at the time seems brilliant and amazing, and no matter what, we HAVE to go through with it. This happens to me all the time. Last summer, I got the idea of making a sour-cherry lattice top pie stuck in my head. I just HAD to make one. Mind you, I had only made like...one pie before that in my life, and it had a crumble for the topping; it wasn't even a double crust pie! I'm not really sure how I figured that I would be able to put together a lattice crust given that I had practically no experience with pie dough. Other fun factors that added to this situation was that I decided to try a completely brand new pie crust recipe, despite having made a pie crust successfully before. I'm not sure why I didn't choose to simply reuse that recipe that I knew worked, but I just HAD to try out a new recipe for some reason. To make matters even more fun, I also didn't have a cherry pitter...and I still don't (this fact will change soon, I'm sure). I decided to give myself the added pleasure of pitting about 2 pounds of cherries by hand. These were clearly all great decisions on my part.
