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What are you making/eating this week?

 

I’ll do a pumpkin pie and a berry pie, like always, plus a sour cream apple pie. And I have a new recipe for a peanut butter mousse pie I want to try because it sounds delicious.

 

Then some friends invited us over Thursday morning for a pie party and I’m trying to decide what to take. I want to do two pies with a more local twist, so I’m thinking to do a pumpkin cardamom pie with a phyllo crust, and maybe a coconut custard pie since I can get freshly grated coconut here easily.

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Jenny in Florida

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Thanksgiving here has always been just the four of us, and we found after several years of searching for the right dessert option that, in fact, no one is really interested in dessert at all after doing justice to the actual meal.

 

This year marks the first time that my daughter isn't coming home for the holiday (family tension combined with financial issues on her end), and I was feeling really down about the whole thing. Then my son announced that his girlfriend would be with us that day. So, now I'm feeling like I need to make an effort, which is probably a good thing.

 

All of that to say that I am planning on adding dessert to the menu. No one here is crazy about pie, and I've been forced by some health issues into the gluten free camp. But I'm thinking of making an apple crisp kind of thing with a topping of oatmeal and crushed nuts. If I lay in some (vegan) vanilla ice cream, then those who wish can add a scoop of ice cream to the crisp, and those who don't want the crisp at all can have ice cream with their chosen toppings.

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theelfqueen

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I was informed (jokingly) that I am only invited to Thanksgiving if I bring key lime pies (by my mom, not my aunt who is actually hosting). I am usually asked to do all the pies but I won't be at home this week for baking. I will probably make a pecan and the pumpkin gooey cake everybody likes for the party we are hosting this weekend instead.

 

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Apple pie with dried cranberries and ginger

Pumpkin pie with ginger snap crust

 

I also make a sweet potato cake with brown sugar frosting and a cranberry upside down cake. We only started making pies a few years ago.

 

Kitchn.com had a recipe for a cranberry tart with a nut crust that I will try at another time.

 

Indian pudding is an old favorite. If kids will give up one of the above desserts, I would like to add it in again.

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I'm thinking about making a sugar pie. Haven't had one of those in years.

 

This is totally new to me. Wiki says it's from northern France, Belgium, and Indiana. Sounds too sweet for me, but otherwise delicious.

 

I love that WTM expands my horizons, even if it is sometimes just in small ways.

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Ali in OR

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Almost no one besides me eats pumpkin pie, so for that one I just buy a small one at the grocery store. And while grocery store crusts aren't as good as homemade, I notice no difference in the pumpkin part (in fact, theirs might be better, or at least more evenly cooked).

 

For the homemade stuff, one dd has requested the peanut butter pie that came from a poster here several years ago--we'll take that one to the church pie social on Wednesday night. Dh has requested mud pie which is super easy. And for his brother's family who are cheesecake people, I got the Costco pack of cheesecake bites which I think we'll all enjoy.

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plansrme

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we'll take that one to the church pie social on Wednesday night. 

 

This is clearly what is missing from my spiritual walk--I need to find a church that has pie socials.

 

I am making a buttermilk pie here with homemade whipped cream on top.  I use the recipe from a Southern Living cookbook I've had 20+ years.  Good buttermilk, eggs and the expensive vanilla are critical.  

 

My random opinions on other pies, 'cause I know y'all want to know:

Despite growing up in Alabama, I am not a fan of pecan pie.  I love pecans, just not the pie.  Maybe if I could eat a bite, brush my teeth, eat another bite, brush my teeth again. . ..

Pumpkin pie is a Yankee food.  Sweet potato pie is where it's at.

I don't understand chocolate pie.

I have rarely met a lemon or key lime pie I did not like, although I feel like someone needs to do a "replace all" for meringue everywhere and go with whipped cream instead.

Apple pie--I love a good one and have made some excellent apple pies in my life; I have also made the pie the exact same way and had it turn out yucky.  I have never been able to figure out why, and this is a source of great frustration for me.

 

Anyone know how to put cranberries into a pie?  I love cranberries and do not have enough ways to eat them.

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This is clearly what is missing from my spiritual walk--I need to find a church that has pie socials.

 

I am making a buttermilk pie here with homemade whipped cream on top.  I use the recipe from a Southern Living cookbook I've had 20+ years.  Good buttermilk, eggs and the expensive vanilla are critical.  

 

My random opinions on other pies, 'cause I know y'all want to know:

Despite growing up in Alabama, I am not a fan of pecan pie.  I love pecans, just not the pie.  Maybe if I could eat a bite, brush my teeth, eat another bite, brush my teeth again. . ..

Pumpkin pie is a Yankee food.  Sweet potato pie is where it's at.

I don't understand chocolate pie.

I have rarely met a lemon or key lime pie I did not like, although I feel like someone needs to do a "replace all" for meringue everywhere and go with whipped cream instead.

Apple pie--I love a good one and have made some excellent apple pies in my life; I have also made the pie the exact same way and had it turn out yucky.  I have never been able to figure out why, and this is a source of great frustration for me.

 

Anyone know how to put cranberries into a pie?  I love cranberries and do not have enough ways to eat them.

When is dessert at your house?  :drool5:

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Pumpkin pie is a Yankee food.  Sweet potato pie is where it's at.

 

You can have my serving, and I'll take your slice of pumpkin.

 

I am making a buttermilk pie here with homemade whipped cream on top.  I use the recipe from a Southern Living cookbook I've had 20+ years.  Good buttermilk, eggs and the expensive vanilla are critical. 

 

Do you think the recipe is available online?

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You can have my serving, and I'll take your slice of pumpkin.

 

 

Do you think the recipe is available online?

 

This is it, although I've never heard of putting nutmeg on the top.  The only difficult part is making sure it's done.  I usually cook it to the end of the recommended time but then turn the oven off and let the pie sit in the cooling oven until it is not jiggly.  It's better the next day.

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I am making a pumpkin pie for at home.  My sister is making a gluten free pumpkin cheesecake for our gathering at our parent's and there will be a lot of other desserts, but DH really wants pumpkin pie, so I told him I would make one for at home.  I am planning to make a key lime pie to take with us because youngest requested it and I like to take things he can eat.  He has food allergies and sensitivities, so I like to make sure there are at least a couple things he will eat.

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My family all loves pecan pie and I make it every Thanksgiving. I will also make pumpkin because I love it and rarely have it any other time. Last year I made a turtle cheesecake as well, but I haven't decided what my third dessert will be this year. I do know with the number I have coming, two pies is probably not enough.

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My Dad's family used to be big pecan pie fans, but now everybody has partial dentures, bridges, etc...so pecan pie is out sadly for most.

 

I've been told to bring a traditional pumpkin pie as well as cheesecake.  So that's what I'll do.  I may do a French apple pie which is one of my Mom's favorites.  It comes from an old collection of "Gourmet" recipes from the 60s that my Mom got when she was first married.  I hate the books because they have zero pictures or illustrations, but this recipe is very good. 

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I'm making pumpkin pie for sure. Trying to decide if I'm going to use a regular store-bought crust or make a gingersnap crust. Not going to lie, think the storebosugh crust may win. Maybe I'll split the difference and do a store-bought graham cracker crust? (feel free to express an opinion)

 

Mom is making porcupine pudding (weird old English recipe) that is full of butter. 

 

I make make a third dessert....maybe a gingerbread bundt cake or gingerbread cupcakes. I thought of making gingerbread cupcakes and frosting them with a buttercream made with a touch of orange juice and some orange zest. 

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Liz CA

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This is clearly what is missing from my spiritual walk--I need to find a church that has pie socials.

 

I am making a buttermilk pie here with homemade whipped cream on top.  I use the recipe from a Southern Living cookbook I've had 20+ years.  Good buttermilk, eggs and the expensive vanilla are critical.  

 

My random opinions on other pies, 'cause I know y'all want to know:

Despite growing up in Alabama, I am not a fan of pecan pie.  I love pecans, just not the pie.  Maybe if I could eat a bite, brush my teeth, eat another bite, brush my teeth again. . ..

Pumpkin pie is a Yankee food.  Sweet potato pie is where it's at.

I don't understand chocolate pie.

I have rarely met a lemon or key lime pie I did not like, although I feel like someone needs to do a "replace all" for meringue everywhere and go with whipped cream instead.

Apple pie--I love a good one and have made some excellent apple pies in my life; I have also made the pie the exact same way and had it turn out yucky.  I have never been able to figure out why, and this is a source of great frustration for me.

 

Anyone know how to put cranberries into a pie?  I love cranberries and do not have enough ways to eat them.

 

We need a recipe on the buttermilk pie. Never mind - found your link.

And :lol: on the second bolded part.

 

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I'm making pumpkin pie for sure. Trying to decide if I'm going to use a regular store-bought crust or make a gingersnap crust. Not going to lie, think the storebosugh crust may win. Maybe I'll split the difference and do a store-bought graham cracker crust? (feel free to express an opinion)

 

Mom is making porcupine pudding (weird old English recipe) that is full of butter. 

 

I make make a third dessert....maybe a gingerbread bundt cake or gingerbread cupcakes. I thought of making gingerbread cupcakes and frosting them with a buttercream made with a touch of orange juice and some orange zest. 

 

You must bake the crust. It's Thanksgiving.  ;)  :)

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Jenny, I'm sorry that your daughter isn't coming home, but glad that your son and his girlfriend will be there.

 

plansrme, does it have to be an actual pie?  I too adore cranberries, and I have made both Alice Waters's Upside Down Cranberry Cake (https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/350-alice-waterss-cranberry-upside-down-cake

 

and Laurie Colwin's Nantucket Cranberry Pie, which is basically the same thing except less complicated

http://blogsguide.tumblr.com/post/270437566/nantucket-cranberry-pie-from-laurie-colwin

 

many times with great success.  

 

I myself am making lemon meringue pie, on request.  I haven't made one in years, so we'll see how it turns out.

 

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This time every year I am so sad we don't have anything like Thanksgiving here, and hence, no excuse to make lots of pies :(

 

But I love reading about everyone's pies!

 

Sadie, I have never known you to be constrained by such minor details. Just bake a pie!  :)

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I’m making peanut butter pie. I’m debating a second pie, I heard someone mention a blueberry pie in a buttermilk crust on the radio the other day and I haven’t quit thinking about it. I’m also thinking about pecan pie. I don’t like it but my husband does and have my grandma’s recipe.

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Seven pies, one for each member of our family (no visitors this year...last year, I made NINE pies!):

 

Cranberry apple

Caramel apple

Nutella

Pecan

Pumpkin

S'mores

Butterscotch

You guys don't like pie very much, do you?

We all remember the time a certain 17 year-old son didn't want to not have enough pie so he made 7-9 pumpkin pies. He did run out of whipped cream. 

I am sick of pumpkin pie. I don't know why. I do not care for pies anymore either. I used to love pecan pies, but they are so sweet. Bleh! It might be the "crust" of pumpkin, apple, etc. pies, which I call pie dough but dh calls crust, that is turning me away from it. Ew. No. 

The rest of y'all go ahead with your American pie tradition. This American declines. 

I do like cranberry apple pecan crunch for a nice change, but this is a pie thread so...

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The rest of y'all go ahead with your American pie tradition. This American declines. 

I do like cranberry apple pecan crunch for a nice change, but this is a pie thread so...

 

Do you have a recipe for the cranberry apple pecan crunch?

 

I'm not a fan of pie.  I was just talking to DH about this - I like pie, but I'd always rather have something different (unless it's a chocolate pudding pie in some kind of cookie/graham crust - the smores and nutella pies mentioned above sound amazing!).  I like the sweetness (I have a terrible sweet tooth), but I prefer other desserts - especially anything with chocolate.  

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I ordered a cheesecake from a charity this year.  But then my kid sad "that sounds great, but what about pumpkin?"  Ugh.  But a grocery store near me has very good pies at a very good price, so I'm buying one of those.

 

I do sometimes make pies, but there's no time this year.

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I have a French coconut pie in the freezer. They are better cold, so I always make them ahead. And I made pecan tarts; I've discovered that it works really well to do a recipe of pie crust and divide and press the crust into muffin tins, and a recipe of pecan pie filling--it makes a dozen tarts. So i get 12 mini-pies from one recipe. They are also cute. ;) I have quit making pumpkin pies, because I am the only one in our immediate family who really likes them. The French coconut is always the favorite, with pecan in a close second. I'm making ginger cookies, and possibly fudge, as well.

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I would love the recipe for both!

Salted Caramel Banana Cream Pie:

http://www.modernhoney.com/salted-caramel-banana-cream-pie/

 

I used a premade GF frozen pie crust. There's flour on the ingredients list but not in the written directions so I omitted it. I'll see in a couple hours which way was correct, lol.

 

Update: Add the flour. It's apparently a tasty but oozy mess.

 

Root Beer Float Pie:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahwilliams/make-this-root-beer-pie-with-your-kiddo-for-pie-day?utm_term=.qyKb2ZEZQk#.meK8KjVjrq

 

Only recipe I could find w/o root beer concentrate, since I can't find it. The store that used to carry it discontinued it. I doubled the whipped cream topping from the salted caramel banana cream recipe and put it on both pies.

 

They'll be eaten tonight (early not-Thanksgiving, long story), so I'll post a retraction if they are terrible. Every spoon I licked tasted good though!

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I'm making mini pies this year.  The cream/chilled pies will be assembled in little 4 ounce canning jars.  The baked/fruit pies will be made in muffin tins.  I had each of my nieces and nephews (and my kids) choose their favorite pie to assemble my list. 

 

So for this year's Pie Hour, I am making:

 

Key Lime Pie

Sour Cherry Pie

Coconut Cream Pie

Oreo Pie

S'mores Pie

Sawdust Pie

Red Velvet Pie

Funfetti Cake Pie

Maple Pecan Date Pie

 

Others are bringing Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Apple Pie and a Paleo Carrot Cake.   If I get all these pies made and I still have time/desire to bake more, I will also make a Blueberry Pie and Lemon Meringue Pie. 

 

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I have a French coconut pie in the freezer. They are better cold, so I always make them ahead. And I made pecan tarts; I've discovered that it works really well to do a recipe of pie crust and divide and press the crust into muffin tins, and a recipe of pecan pie filling--it makes a dozen tarts. So i get 12 mini-pies from one recipe. They are also cute. ;) I have quit making pumpkin pies, because I am the only one in our immediate family who really likes them. The French coconut is always the favorite, with pecan in a close second. I'm making ginger cookies, and possibly fudge, as well.

 

In the early 80's I worked at a bakery and we sold French coconut pie by the slice and kept it in the freezer until the day it was needed. One day I ate it straight from the freezer and it was delicious. That point where it's so cold it's ALMOST frozen....swoon. Haven't had one in years.   Willing to share your recipe? 

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