It's Thanksforpiegiving Day

So this has been a crappy year, on several counts. Crappy crappy dismal evil worst year in a very long time.
That included the garden=( It was poorly tended due to many other things but it managed to give me some lovely, lovely pumpkins.

Two of those lovely pumpkins were from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company's Luxury Pie Pumpkins. I got about 4 lbs of meat from them. 4 lbs...
I roasted the pumpkin halves in the oven in a water bath and scooped out the meat and now I have pumpkin coming out my ears.
So it was pumpkin pancakes for breakfast (YUM!)
And now it's pie in the oven.


This is a crappy turkey day for me. (See re: above) My roommate and I are going to an absolutely yummy restaurant for dinner later and we will drink and dine and have a merry time, no doubt.


It's been 4 years since I was 'home' for thanksgiving and all those years I still had a loved one here with me. I don't this year. It's just a day. A day I wish I was back home...I am not too fond of much American history, not that we are any better than anyone else's history in regards to native peoples and divine conquest, don't get me wrong, humans are just mean no matter the nationality... But without them (pilgrims yadda yadda), we would not have Pie. I am pretty sure pie was around then and that pumpkins are American and so one could argue pumpkin pie is more American than apple. And people are especially nice around thanksgiving so I think hundreds of years of spreading good food and love around might make up for a little bit of the "humans are mean", like maybe it makes it "humans are just plain mean...sometimes....then it's thanksgiving and they are all nice and happy." But I digress.

Thanksgiving this year is all about pie. I made it from as scratch as I could. (Except the crust. I mean really, who cares about the crust on a pumpkin pie? it is simply a shell to hold the delectable pumpkin custard so when you are eating cold pie you need no fork nor plate, it's a tool the crust is a tool! I can understand apple pie crust being all flaky and perfect and buttery and adding something to the sweet soft apple filling a nice texture thing but pumpkin? I could make pumpkin custard and be happy. So the crust is not from scratch cause unless it actually contributes to the PIE? I don't care.


Fresh ginger and extra clove and cinnamon and brown sugar instead of white and damned if it isn't delish. (It is I had a bite when it got out of the oven about 10 mins ago now..spicy happyness)


Thank the turkeys for pie.
I miss you family, I will eat a slice for you too.