Peppermint Patootie > wrote:
: Amounts will be approximate because I cook more by eye than by measuring
: spoon.

: Preheat oven to 350F.

: Cut a few ounces of cold butter into pats and place in a cool bowl.
: Pour in a few cups of almond meal. Cut with a pastry cutter until the
: butter bits are pretty small and the overall texture is about that of
: corn meal.

: Pat the crust into a 10" Pyrex pie plate.

: Bake for 10-12 minutes or so, until it starts faintly browning. Remove
: from oven.

: In a large bowl, beat four large eggs. Add a slurp of vanilla extract
: and good amount of zest off a fresh orange and stir. Mincing the zest
: would be good. I forgot to, and there are strings in my pie. If you
: like strings, leave the zest as is. ;-)

If you have a microplane for zesting, etc there will be only fluffy
zest with no srings attached.

Wendy