Pumpkin Pie: Food Of The Gods.

SouthernFriedJulie · Oct 5, 2008

It's 2:00 am and I woke up with a hankering for pumpkin pie. Luckily I'd made two earlier. No, I didn't eat both, just one slice. But, dayum, it was good.

Sometimes I love being pregnant. Every once in a while I can do something like this and get away with it. Yummers.

What's your favorite late night snack?

SPMiller · Oct 5, 2008

It took me until I was twenty or so (and baking pies) to figure out that what I actually loved was sweet potato pie, not pumpkin pie.

What? They look similar!

Thump · Oct 6, 2008

Mmmmh pumpkin pie...

I made it once because I had never tried it and it's so easy to make and so delicious! I really want some now but I don't have any money to buy ingredients >_<

Mumut · Oct 6, 2008

I've never tried it but I make pumpkin soup - very basic but nicer for that. Sometimes I include a piece of sweet potato.

Sad story, though. For years I had jap pumpkins grow wild in the back paddock. Some years we had forty or fifty of them. But in the last few years they've not grown. I never use artificial fertilizer or pesticide so I don't know what happened. RIP (Retired Indigenous Pumpkin).

bluejester12 · Oct 6, 2008

SouthernFriedJulie said:
Sometimes I love being pregnant. Every once in a while I can do something like this and get away with it. Yummers.

I wish I could be pregnant. You women have all the fun.

Wait...what'd I say? :Wha:

Inkdaub · Oct 6, 2008

My favorite late night snack is probably granola. My idea of 'food of the gods' is massaman curry with shrimp from my favorite cart.

tjwriter · Oct 6, 2008

There's a local restaurant chain that has a fantastic pumpkin ice cream. Then, close to Christmas, they have eggnog ice cream. Yum!

I've been craving things pumpkin, too. I have a great recipe for crumble-top pumpkin muffins. I was thinking about making them next week. Great breakfast.

I love that I can eat whatever I want while pregnant and not gain a ton of weight. So our annual Fall Festival (www.nutclub.org) is this week and I get to pig out on all sorts of goodies. I'm at that point in pregnancy where I get all excited about food.

L M Ashton · Oct 6, 2008

What I love is that pumpkin is available year round here. Small pumpkins, sure, but that just makes it easier for me to get my fix since the hubby doesn't like pumpkin.

L M Ashton · Oct 6, 2008

Wait, why isn't this in the foodie forum?

regdog · Oct 6, 2008

I love pumpkin pie and after I was diagnosed with gluten allergies I wouldn't eat it any more than I found Gillian's GLuten free foods and what a good pumpkin pie they have.

It is so rare to find really good gluten gluten free food, but yeah for Gillian's

NeuroFizz · Oct 6, 2008

Every birthday I have pumpkin pie for my birthday cake (complete with candles--have since I was a tyke). Any pie that can be consumed by hand in front of the TV, without a plate, is already near the top of the list. Add the spices of pumpkin pie and there isn't anything close enough to be worthy of second place.

Shadow_Ferret · Oct 6, 2008

If there is one substance on the face of the earth I cannot abide by, it's pumpkin. I've never understood how anyone can eat that and watching how most people smother it in whipped cream, that sort of explains it.

However, one year we saw a recipe for pumpkin pie and my wife wanted to try it and to tell you the truth, it was pretty good, and even a pumpkin-phobe like me liked it.

Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie

Bubastes · Oct 6, 2008

I love this time of year. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin custard, pumpkin waffles. . . .

You've inspired me to make pumpkin muffins this week.

JimmyB27 · Oct 6, 2008

I don't understand how you crazy Yanks can cook a pie with pumpkin in it and eat it as a sweet.
And pumpkin ice cream? *vomit*.

SouthernFriedJulie · Oct 6, 2008

bluejester12 said:
I wish I could be pregnant. You women have all the fun.

Wait...what'd I say?

Hubby sure had fun getting me this way. :-D

tjwriter said:
There's a local restaurant chain that has a fantastic pumpkin ice cream. Then, close to Christmas, they have eggnog ice cream. Yum!

I've been craving things pumpkin, too. I have a great recipe for crumble-top pumpkin muffins. I was thinking about making them next week. Great breakfast.

I love that I can eat whatever I want while pregnant and not gain a ton of weight. So our annual Fall Festival (www.nutclub.org) is this week and I get to pig out on all sorts of goodies. I'm at that point in pregnancy where I get all excited about food.

I've had this pumpkin in the cupboard for weeks. I make pie crust, but needed new pans and kept forgetting to buy any. SO MIL got tired of my bitching and bought me some yesterday. So, no more craving! You and I are at that point of pregnancy where the baby needs to pack on some fat. I've lost 12 pounds with this one, but he's been growing fine. Now I get to pig out a little.

L M Ashton said:
Wait, why isn't this in the foodie forum?

Because I knew sooner or later this would derail into something about making pumpkin liqour with granpa. I'll relate that later on...

HeaGrg said:
I love pumpkin pie and after I was diagnosed with gluten allergies I wouldn't eat it any more than I found Gillian's GLuten free foods and what a good pumpkin pie they have.
It is so rare to find really good gluten gluten free food, but yeah for Gillian's

I have some gluten free recipes from a great site, www.frugalabundance.com the lady who runs it is Ms. Maggie from Hillbilly Housewife fame. It's all low cost recipes and menus. I try to use them because of the GF/CF diet for autism.

Shadow_Ferret said:
If there is one substance on the face of the earth I cannot abide by, it's pumpkin. I've never understood how anyone can eat that and watching how most people smother it in whipped cream, that sort of explains it.

However, one year we saw a recipe for pumpkin pie and my wife wanted to try it and to tell you the truth, it was pretty good, and even a pumpkin-phobe like me liked it.

Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie

Whipped cream is nasty. Ew. Yuck. I used to stay away from pumpkin until I had a pie done just right. More spices than sugar.

MeowGirl said:
I love this time of year. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin custard, pumpkin waffles. . . .

You've inspired me to make pumpkin muffins this week.

Yay! I like being an inspiration! Just drop off some of the things you mentioned and we're even.

JimmyB27 said:
I don't understand how you crazy Yanks can cook a pie with pumpkin in it and eat it as a sweet.
And pumpkin ice cream? *vomit*.

Try it, you might like it.

And, er, hun, I are not is a YANK. I know ya'll over on the other side of the puddle like to call us all that, but I'm a rebel (SE US.).

Honalo · Oct 6, 2008

And also, ladies (and gents) pumpkin is good for the complexion - smear it on. And for that matter, butternut squash. honest injun.

Thump · Oct 6, 2008

Gods, I want pumpkin pie so bad now >_< Or just the pumpkin pie filling mix thing. I'll eat it right out of the can.

I've never had sweet potato pie, sounds odd to me. Like yams with marshmallow. WTF?

but I'd try it if someone would make them for me.

lostgirl · Oct 6, 2008

I used to love pumpkin pie. but then I ran across a recipe for a pumpkin roll.. which is a giant ho-ho made from pumpkin cake and filled with cheesecake filling... after having played with the recipe and making it my own.. I can never go back to just pumpkin pie again..

tjwriter · Oct 6, 2008

SouthernFriedJulie said:
I've had this pumpkin in the cupboard for weeks. I make pie crust, but needed new pans and kept forgetting to buy any. SO MIL got tired of my bitching and bought me some yesterday. So, no more craving! You and I are at that point of pregnancy where the baby needs to pack on some fat. I've lost 12 pounds with this one, but he's been growing fine. Now I get to pig out a little.

I was still negative four pounds this pregnancy three weeks ago. Or at least I was. I have a checkup tomorrow morning and I have a feeling I've gained some water weight.

Here is the recipe for the muffins I mentioned:

Crumble Top Pumpkin Muffins

They are a heavier type of muffin, but even my husband likes them, which is odd that he would like something that I like.

And pumpkin ice cream is delicious.

Judg · Oct 6, 2008

JimmyB27 said:
I don't understand how you crazy Yanks can cook a pie with pumpkin in it and eat it as a sweet.
And pumpkin ice cream? *vomit*.

Poor Jimmy. You have no idea what you're missing, do you?

Judg, who is Canadian and who loves pumpkin pie. And pumpkin cake. And who will almost certainly try TJ's pumpkin muffins.

L M Ashton · Oct 6, 2008

Yep, not a Yank here either. I iz a Canuckian.

L M Ashton · Oct 6, 2008

lostgirl said:
I used to love pumpkin pie. but then I ran across a recipe for a pumpkin roll.. which is a giant ho-ho made from pumpkin cake and filled with cheesecake filling... after having played with the recipe and making it my own.. I can never go back to just pumpkin pie again..

Recipe, please?

Thump · Oct 7, 2008

L M Ashton said:
Recipe, please?

I second the request

Inkdaub · Oct 7, 2008

A coworker's wife sent him in with some home made pumpkin bread one Christmas time a few years ago. That was some good stuff and I ate most of it without guilt...you snooze you lose.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Oct 7, 2008

Ooookay. Now it's time to move to the Foodie Forum.

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