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This morning Luke decided that he wanted to make a chocolate pie. With his own recipe, of course. He'd already gotten out the chocolate and mixed it with the soy milk and was getting out the egg replacer and was figuring out what he needed to make a pie crust. SIGH. Sometimes I wish he'd just watch TV....
 I had to force him to get dressed and eat breakfast before he started cooking.
We ended up using the phyllo dough to make a pie crust and I found a simple recipe for chocolate pie filling.  With the butter and sugar and chocolate, it can't taste bad, but we'll see.   
Here's the pie filling recipe I found on All Recipes when I searched for "Chocolate pie filling unsweetened chocolate."  I'll let y'all know how it tastes.
3/4 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups milk
2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
3 egg yolks (we'll use egg replacer)
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix the sugar, flour, broken-up chocolate, and milk.  Cook until boiling, boil for 2 minutes and take off the heat.  Add some chocolate to the beaten eggs, then add the eggs back to the mix.  Stir in butter and vanilla.  Put it in the pie shell and chill.

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