I'm sure you all know Joy the Baker by now, yes? She's the adorably quirky baker/blogger/muser-on-life who brought us such gems as sunflower seed bread, chocolate peanut butter puffs, and these lemon meringue cookies, which I'm dying to try once I don't feel too lazy / I buy a pastry bag. Basically, she's kind of a genius, as well as being so creative it actually makes me sleepy just to read her blog.
But sometimes her creativity energizes me, because it encourages my laziness. Enter the no-roll pie crust. This dough doesn't require a lot of work (amazingness, especially for a pie dough); it mostly involves grating frozen butter, manhandling the dough a bit, and lots of greasy fingers. Have you ever grated butter? It's kind of weird, but also kind of ingenious. And more than kind of pretty:
