Meet The Team / Joanne Lutynec

How many times have you come across a certain ingredient in your pantry and wondered if was still safe to eat?

Do you have a recipe that calls for clarified butter but aren't sure what to do?

Looking for a quick, easy and less messy way of coring a bell pepper? Well, you've come to the right place!

Looking for an easy way to work with garlic? Look no further!

No. that isn't a typo in the title. Yesterday was March 14th, which, in abbreviated form, is 3.14 (feel free to add the 1592653589793238... if you so desire), better known to us non-mathematicians simply as Pi.

As is usually the tradition here at Slashfood, we are willing to turn just about any circumstance into something to celebrate, so why should Pi Day be any exception? Fortunately for us, the blogosphere was full of others who jumped on this bandwagon as well. In fact, Kitchen Parade collected submissions all week, resulting in dozens of mouth-watering pie recipes all linked up on one page.

So without further ado, following are my top eight favorites, which I will be putting on my "need to make" list. (Corresponding photos can be found in the gallery at the bottom of the page after the jump.)