Today I learned that our local QFC now stocks Nellie and Joe's Famous Key West Lime Juice. There was much rejoicing! And now, there is pie.

I won't buy key lime pie in a restaurant or grocery store for two reasons: (1). commercial key lime pies are almost never made with proper key limes -- usually it's just regular limes, which are NOT the same thing, and (2). I ain't paying $5 a slice for pie I can make for next to nothing at home. For about five bucks I can make almost that many pies, which is sort of the point. It's Florida soul food -- that is, poor-people food. There's no good reason to pay fat cash dollars for it.

Here's all you need:

1. 3 egg yolks
2. One 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
3. 1/2 a cup of key lime juice*
4. Graham cracker crust (I buy mine premade, because I'm lazy.)





Blend egg yolks, milk, and juice until smooth.



Dump the mixture into a pie crust.



Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Chill it in the fridge.
Cut it up and eat it.



If you are more patient than I am, and if you wait more than 45 minutes while the pie chills in the fridge, then it won't be as runny in the middle as this particular slice seems to indicate.

Happy nomming!

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* I use a tiny bit more, because I like mine good and tart.