First off, he checked out the boisenberries can, and lo and behold there was a recipe on the label, so he decided that was totally the way to go.

Next, he headed down to our local grocery store to buy a pie crust. He came back with a no-bake graham cracker crust. He was sad when I said it might not work out, but went back to the store and got a frozen pie crust instead. Phew.

Moving on, he made the pie filling. Somehow, he didn’t notice that it said TWO cans of pie filling for a 9″ pie. So he used the one can we had, but used the full amount of sugar and butter, and poured it into the pie shell where it only filled about halfway up the crust. Retrospectively, he said it did look a little flat, but he was hoping it would rise.

He also forgot to read the part where it said “lattice top” or “double crust” for the top of the pie. So he popped it into the oven as-is.

Despite disregard for the directions, the pie was tasty. As he said, “you can’t really mess up berries, sugar and butter!” It was more like a “fruit tart”. And as you see in the picture, we were down to the last piece, which we happily ate as soon as I took the picture.