I never fully appretiated Pillsbury until now...

Before this recent encounter I would have said that I liked Pillsbury.
I would have admitted to appreciating the convience and ease, but not said that I needed the brand or like brands. Well, I was shopping in Win Dixie and saw this red celery looking stuff and thought that must be rhubarb (this in itself is a little odd since I've never eaten or even seen the food). I had a friend in Kansas City that always talked about strawberry rhubarb pies. Luckily the strawberries were on sell and I thought I'd take a stab of making a strawberry rhubarb pie. I went home and got out my Betty Crocker cookbook and found a recipe, it called for double crust, no big deal I have some frozen pie crusts in the freezer - that's were I was wrong! No pie crusts and a ton of rhubarb and two containers of strawberries.  The strawberries wouldn't have been a problem to get rid of but the rhubarb, I'm not even sure what it is! Well, Betty Crockery has never heard of Pillsbury and has her own recipes for pie crust, what else am I going to do with all this stuff, might as well try my luck at pie dough.... this is now when I discovered my new appreciation for Pillsbury.  I don't have trouble reading, and though I can be rebellious at times, I like to think of it more as strong-willed, I can follow instructions. This is what I hate about cooking.... you can follow the directions, do everything right and still fail. I don't like to fail! Well my pie crust was pretty close to failure, the only disclaimer is that I didn't have a dough roller, which might have been important .... the dough wasn't big enough, I never got it to roll thin enough,  but even thick it cracked, I had to just press the bottom layer into the pan, the top layer didn't meet at the edges, it cracked as well.... but at least I got all the ingredients correct which means it at least tasted good! I have shared some pictures of the creation below, including the lovely mess that the edges not meeting created at the bottom of my oven!
I guess the moral of the story is that as much as I'd like to be Betty Crocker, I think I'm going to settle for that Semi - Homemade lady.