What's this? More dessert food porn?

In the never-ending search (at least so far -- I assume that at some point we will find what we are looking for) for the chocolate pie recipe that Mrs. Wolves deems acceptable in keeping with the standards of her youth, today we test drive a second chocolate pie recipe. Last week's pie was excellent and led to family fights over the last piece, but it was not the pie that Mrs. Wolves is seeking. Too brownie-like, even though it was clearly not a brownie.

In any event, this week we went with a no-bake pie. It uses a traditional dough pie crust (I bought one -- the only time I ever tried to make a pie crust, it sucked so bad the pie was inedible. I don't do that anymore.) but I suppose you could use a graham cracker crust, chocolate or otherwise. Up to you. If you go with a store-bought dough crust, follow the directions for baking it prior to filling. Usually you're looking at 10 minutes at 375. Read the label instructions and act accordingly.

Once you have resolved your crust issues, move on to the filling. You will need 3/4 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup of flour, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and the pie crust we discussed before:

Mix the sugar, flour and salt in a pan, then add one cup of milk:

Whisk that stuff until it is smooth. Mix it up right, people:

Bring it to a boil over medium heat. (The recipe calls for a double-boiler, but I find that to be a cheap ploy to sell more pans, complicate recipes and make you work harder. They're just compensating for people who can't pay attention. Stir that stuff like a big dog, and you'll be fine.) Anyway, stirring constantly -- and I mean constantly, or the double-boiler people win -- keep that at a low boil until it thickens into a smooth kind of stuff. Might take two minutes of boil (probably less):

Remove the thickened stuff from the heat. At some point here, you took the two eggs and beat them into the other cup of milk. You will now stir that mixture gradually into the hot mixture you already took off the heat:

Mix that up right, then put it back on the heat and bring to a boil. Stir until it thickens again (won't take long, please pay attention) then remove from the heat and add the butter and vanilla:

Mix that up right. Toss in the half-cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips you've had waiting ever since I said "chocolate."

Stir that until the chocolate melts, mixing it up right.

Pour that smooth, well-mixed mixture into the pie crust of your choice that you selected and prepared when we started:

Enjoy that bad boy.

Mrs. Wolves mangled the first piece out, but enjoyed the hell out of it:

Feel free to put whipped cream on that sucka.  Also, I believe there will be Chocolate Pie Recipe No. 3 on Christmas. Stay tuned