Encina owner/chef Matt Balke’s entry in the second-annual Piehole Project auction is “a fun take on cheese and crackers.”
It has a pecan brown-butter cracker crust, green-chile pimento cheese, prosciutto marmalade, wagyu beef-cheek pastrami, sweet-tea syrup and green tomato chow chow. What? Just look at this bad boy.
This pie will set you back, but it’s for a good cause. Piehole Project funds culinary and hospitality scholarships. To date, the event from Festevents Foundation has raised and funded nearly $40,000 for scholarships.
Bidding is open through Oct. 28, and the highest bid on Balke’s meat pie Thursday morning was $110.
Several more Oak Cliff chefs are participating in the auction as well.
Chef Sharon Van Meter of Beckley 1115 offers a German deep-dish apricot sour cream crumble pie.
Sharon Van Meter of Beckley 1115 with her apricot sour cream crumble pie.
Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet Chocolate offers “Katherine’s ‘ice box’ of chocolate,” chocolate semi freddo, brown butter-dos hombres ganache, Wackym’s cookie crumble and special sauce.
Katherine Clapner of Dude Sweet Chocolate with her “ice box” pie.
And Oak Cliff favorite chef Graham Dodds of Elm & Good in East Dallas offers a green-tomato pie with buttermilk ice cream.
Graham Dodds of Elm & Good with his green tomato pie and buttermilk ice cream.
Yes, that’s green tomato pie with buttermilk ice cream.
Check out all the pies and bid on them here.
The whole thing also culminates in an in-person event Oct. 28.
