Pumpkin pie

[Oaktree]

wait, mince meat and raisin is "throw away" for me

Yeah, not a big fan of that myself.

My daughter cuts up squash (baking pumpkin or red kabocha) into quarters, scoops the seeds out, and then roasts it in the oven until it's soft (and somewhat singed). Often adds a carrot or yam, also roasted, and makes the pies from there.

My wife makes squash pies too, though she just cubes it (well, I cut and peel) then steams and mashes it. We generally have so many squash in a given year that we run out of things to do with them. Squash is less watery than pumpkin, but still works great for pie...seems to have a stronger taste too.

Not even sure what kind of squash it is...about 10 years ago my sister gave us a couple, we really liked it so we saved the seeds and just plant that variety each year.

 

[mjarrels]

Best bang for the buck are the large Costco pumpkin pies $5.99 each.

mark

 

[Oaktree]

Best bang for the buck are the large Costco pumpkin pies $5.99 each.

We don't have Costco around here but I agree, sometimes it's less hassle to just buy a "store" pie. They're usually pretty good and a lot less work.

 

[pokey1416]

Kids line up at the door for my pumpkin pie. Try it! Here’s recipe.

 

[bigtiller]

A relative of mine really likes pie, and he has 2 favorites, open-faced and double-crusted. :laughing:

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

My daughter cuts up squash (baking pumpkin or red kabocha) into quarters, scoops the seeds out, and then roasts it in the oven until it's soft (and somewhat singed). Often adds a carrot or yam, also roasted, and makes the pies from there.
Best pumpkin pies I've ever had, roasting reduces the water content so you've got a true custard to the pies and they're not "juicy" like most are.

Sounds like a winner. To be honest I have never had a home made pumpkin pie I care for. They usually are too runny, really bland on spices or over spiced. I like a store bought pumpkin from Walmart or Kroger, I haven’t bought one but there is a store bought pumpkin that’s nasty, I know GFS (Gordon food service) is one supplier of a bad pumpkin pie. Place I work for has a cafeteria, they are supplied by GFS and never have a good pumpkin. They do have a really good pecan and coconut cream pie.

I think most home made pies I have had was from canned pumpkin pie filling, never from actual vegetables.

For pie I prefer cool whip over ready whip, for shakes and iced beverages, ready whip. Can’t say I have had home made whipped cream either.

 

[user.69169]

Around here we got grape pies, good once you get used to idea of grapes in pie. Lot of dem get sold during grape festival. Man can get tired of grape dere, get outhouse ailment eating too many grapes too.

I am a spoiled man thanks to baby sister who owned 2 bakerys before she decided she needed to be retired woman cause she had enough money to retire. Her daughters now run and own 3 bakerys but dey gotta send daily samples to momma for what called quality check. Since I ain't home nephew is hauling (removed)'s locked and sealed piecrate up from baby sister. He right now in Ohio, cause he forgot to route exhaust from pie crate out window of doghouse and got tired.

Meanwhile (removed) makin do on de punkin part in my pie deprived world wid deep fried pie punkin slices, IF (removed) can keep enough girls back from draining rack to get slice fer (removed). Poor little girls led a deprived life till dey met me. Took most of 9 hours to teach slicin and proper dredging..

Tomorrow regardless what government goons think bunch of us getting together over at Phil's bar/museum/hotel where big fryer is set up on de porch. I lookin forward to tater pancakes and homemade kraut along wid more fryed punkin and pies. Probably be too many middle bender tractors blockin parkin area for goverment agents to get in.

 

[Bird]

A relative of mine really likes pie, and he has 2 favorites, open-faced and double-crusted. :laughing:

He sounds like me; never met a pie I didn't like. Daughter said she decided to try another new recipe and made a pumpkin cheese cake this year, and it was very good.

 

[Doofy]

I decided to have peach pie this year but my all time favorite pie is apricot especially when it is an authentic fried pie. Hostess made a big mistake when they switched from fried to baked hand pies.

 

[goeduck]

wait, mince meat and raisin is "throw away" for me

Throw it my way, I love it

 

[goeduck]

My pumpkin (actually squash) pies yesterday were a disaster,. Not because of the filling, but I rushed the bottom crust.

 

[lilranch2001]

I bought myself a store bought Chocolate Creme Pie for Thanksgiving, it was quite tasty!

 

[cqaigy2]

He sounds like me; never met a pie I didn't like. Daughter said she decided to try another new recipe and made a pumpkin cheese cake this year, and it was very good.

My wife made that this year. Pretty good. Made with home made sugar pumpkins.

 

[user.69169]

Cheesecake is a Sacrement dat is not to be contaminated.
Only a godless savage contaminates cheesecake.

No egg yolks, no nothin but cream cheese, eggwhites proper whipped in a chilled copper bowl, sugar dat had vanilla beans stored in it for a month and just enough peanut oil to coat de pan so gramcraker crumbs stick dere. NO cottage cheese, NO Ricotta, dem is for other things like creampuffs and canoli.

Chocolate and nanner best like butterskotch with proper custard made wid eggs, milk, sugar and flavor as baby sister tells to do. Egg yolks from cheesecake go in custard. Dat waay dey not go to waste and serve proper purpose, few can go on dry dogchow too cause dogs deserve fine food.

 

[Diggin It]

 

[Doofy]

The "Pumpkin Pie Spice" flavoring Fad of the last few years has ruined pumpkin pie for me. It all tastes really nasty. Now, I enjoy everything but Pumpkin.

 

[user.69169]

Dat called MRE in polite conversation. Might be acceptable in certain circles like where only thing girl can make in de kitchen is restaurant reservation but not in (removed)'s world.

Punkin custard easy enough to stirr up wid punkin, eggs, sugar, milk, cinnamon, ginger & nutmeg. You built wid taste buds, use em before you ladel de pieshell headed for oven. Index finger pretty much perfect dipper fer testing. Whole deal only a problem when you makin few hundred punkin pies.

If dat's Paw Lick Tickle, tough piecrust!

 

[RobertN]

I used to think that too. My favorite was home made sweet potato pie(still is...)

BUT..... a couple years ago my wife started making pumpkin pie from scratch... It is really good! And it is relatively easy. It's easy to cook the pumpkin and make your own custard(a pumpkin pie is really a pumpkin custard pie)

Most pies I've had I think were baked with filling from the store. Turns out most of that is not even real pumpkin. I never cared for the flavor of those pies no matter who made them..

To each their own. I personally can't stand pumpkin pie. I'd rather starve than eat a bite of one. What a waste of whipped cream. Just eat the whipped cream off the top and throw the pumpkin pie in the trash where it belongs.

:laughing:

 

[user.69169]

Punkin fer pies real hard to find around here. Nobody growing dem, and most don't know what pie punkin is.

Dey real easy to render down in turkey fryer outside to keep all moisture out de house if you got no summer kitchen.

 

[cqaigy2]

We grow are own cooking pumpkins, sometimes you'll see them in the grocery. My wife makes are real good savory pumpkin soup. Each time she makes it, the flavor changes, as do the ingredients. The last one had a number of different peppers in it. Actually, i'll take the soup over the pie, but it's by a narrow margin.