Vivian’s Pies Let the Good Times Roll
By Lorrie Baumann
Vivian Clark, 76, has been making her crawfish pies for 30 years, and now she’s using the secret recipe that earned her pies applause at Florida restaurants, farmers markets as well as her friends’ parties to make crawfish pies for retail sale in specialty food markets.
Clark first introduced her Cajun-style crawfish pies to friends at a housewarming event. “I was trying to one-up the hostess with her dinner,” she admits. “Everyone took the crawfish pie… I’ve created a pie recipe that nobody else can make. I am the only one with this recipe.”
Those friends started asking her to make pies for them to buy from her and she did — just friend to friend — until she retired from her career as an accountant for a local nursing home and then got bored. “I found a kitchen, got a license, and started selling to restaurants right away,” she says. “Every weekend, I’d go to the market and sell — in four hours — anywhere from $500 to $2,000, just from people walking the street and having a sample. People were coming and saying they’d been all over the world and couldn’t find anything that tastes like this.”
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Vivian’s Pies are available in four sizes. The smallest, a 4-ounce pie, is sold as a package of six for use as appetizer portions. The package of six retails for $44.99.
The single-serving entree-sized pie, 8 ounces, retails for $16.99, while the 12-ounce pie that serves two retails for $21.99. The family-size pie, a 32-ounce pie that serves six, retails for $49.99. The pies are sold frozen, and once at home, they go directly from freezer to oven, where both top and bottom crusts brown and the crawfish filling cooks to creamy perfection in an hour. “My pie is special in that I have created the spices that no one else is using in their crawfish pie,” Clark says. “It’s just all flavorful with sherry and cream and butter and crawfish. At least every bite you’re going to get a crawfish in it. My pie is a special pie.”
For more information, visit www.vivianspies.com.
