My first HOME MADE pie....

While I've made the classic Red Betty Crocker cookbook pumpkin pie in the past, I decided to take a different route and make a home made pie. What kind you ask? Pumpkin. As per the previous post, you can see we not only have a couple of pumpkins in my back yard, we have close to a pumpkin patch. So I decided to take on the task of carving one up to make pie. While carving, saving the seeds, and boiling the pumpkin took 2 hours, the crust went pretty easy (it's something I'm still working on). After cooking it/winging it, it turned out AMAZING! I can never imagine going back to canned pumpkin again. Thank God we have enough pumpkin to freeze for pies to come! I had to take a picture of my pride and joy!

The Glynn family pumpkin patch...plus some other goodies.

Since we have an overflow of pumpkins, fresh pumpkin pie is on tap for tomorrow, and pumpkin creme brule later this week (need to get the culinary torch first!). My neighbors have already come over and picked one...we're open by apt. only :)