Cherry pie

Some family came to visit this Sunday. The boyfriend and I went to an all day extravaganza wedding the day before, so thankfully they were nice enough to come along at 4pm which gave me enough time to lazily roll out of bed at the crack of noon, shop for cheese and charcuterie, bake some bread and make a cherry pie with some of the cherries that haven't been eaten by the snails.
The real reason I like having people round is that it forces you to to clean your house before they show up. You curse yourself for past laziness, ever dumping the entire contents of your bag onto the dining table, leaving piles of laundry lying around the living room and vow never to do those bad things again. If you're really lucky you can get your boyfriend to do this while you leisurely prepare the meal.

I used the same crust recipe for this pie/ tart as I did for the rum and raisin pies last week, and this amazing and simple filling from Ideas in Food. I also made the lemon and olive biscuits from New Portuguese Table again which completely failed to impress me the second time around, but kind of went well with the cheese.
Here's the pie, it's absolutely gorgeous but had a few faults. I still like the dark chocolate taste of the crust but will never make it in a ceramic dish again because no matte how well you grease it, it will stick to the sides like cement and instead of pretty slices you will serve your guests cherry compote with gravelly shards of crust studded in. Metal pie tins only. It also improves from sitting with the filling for a few hours, the combination of flavours is better and because it's so hard to begin with it doesn't get too soggy.
And final lesson, don't buy anymore plates with pictures of faces on them.