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Maybe you've noticed I seem to have been avoiding the biggest pumpkin topic of all... the PUMPKIN PIE. Sorry, I know all caps is bad but it had to be done.
Pumpkin Pie deserves capital letters. It's the only pie I love. It's the only pie I look forward to. It's the only pie that causes me to reach for seconds (ok maybe thirds.)
I have to tell you that I'm not an expert pumpkin pie maker. I don't get complaints, really, I just don't get many rave reviews. Except there was one year when I was told I had to bring my GREAT pumpkin pie (two please!) to a squadron Thanksgiving party because the host remembered it from the year before. The dude was a little whacked, but in that good way that really old Air Force SGTs should be whacked. I brought the pie(s) and he ate a whole one by himself.
Anyway, my pumpkin pie recipe tends to come right from the pumpkin pie label - except I recall that there's one recipe that calls for you to change the temperature on the oven half-way through and I can never remember that. So, if that's the canned pumpkin I bought that year - I head to the recipe book given to me when I got married all those years ago. You know the one with handwritten recipes from my mother's recipe box? The one I really didn't use very often? The one that makes me laugh my rear off now (and the one that REALLY makes TW laugh.) Yea, that's the one.
All of the pages have fallen out and been put back in willy-nilly-like and a bunch of pages are missing - including that basic pumpkin pie recipe. Hmph.
Luckily, there are a zillion and one great pumpkin pie recipes all over the blogosphere.
You can go a wee bit crazy with the Pumpkin Pear Tart
You can make cute mini pumpkin pies.
The chocolate pumpkin pie, which would probably make non-pumpkin lovers happy but me - I want pumpkin NOT chocolate.
An organic pumpkin pie or a vegan pumpkin pie.
Simply Recipes has two pumpkin pie recipes to try.
I'm very interested in Alanna's honey pumpkin pie.
Here's that lower the oven temperature recipe and here's one made with fresh pumpkin!
When I first called for pumpkin links, I got surprisingly few pumpkin pie recipes. Thank goodness for Anne-Marie, she shared Pecan Pumpkin Pie and Kahlua Pumpkin Pie.
Now, tell me - what is the one and only BEST pumpkin pie recipe in the world? I need to know - I'm craving pumpkin pie right now and will have to try and coax TW into making one...
~~Denise
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