Curse you, Publix AND Kroger, for making me go to Walmart shudder to find pie pumpkins. WTF? 
Doesn’t anyone make pumpkin pies from scratch anymore? The 'tude I got from the produce folks who I asked irked me even more…
Sure they make them from scratch- start with 1-16oz can pumpkin…
I don’t want to go home for five days and miss out on all Final Fantasy 12 play time!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I should be mere days away from my annual phone conversation with my mom where she asks me if I have any plans for Thanksgiving and then expresses her sorrow that I have no plans.
Then I tell her that that’s the way I like it. Then she says, “Yes, I know you always say that, but I just hate to think of you alone.” sigh
I’m actually kind of afraid that a new coworker is going to invite me to Thanksgiving. I really like her and her family, I just don’t want to do the several hours of eating dinner while football games play on television thing.
$12.00 a pound for Pecans ?
I suppose I’ll still share the pie with my wife, but it’ll grate to do so. 
You don’t make pumpkin pie from scratch? I make pumpkin pie from scratch and we don’t even have Thanksgiving.
For statistical purposes only: I don’t make pumpkin pies from scratch! I don’t make pies at all, other than meat pies. I don’t see the point of destroying perfectly fine fruit to make pies out of it.
But the OP *does *make them from scratch. He’s looking for pie pumpkins, not pumpkin pies. Or did I miss something?
My rant? The feeding frenzy. I swear, with my family, Thanksgiving dinner rarely lasts longer than 30 minutes. Everyone sits down and inhales food. Then it’s done. Then we do dishes.
Oh well, it’s family…
You are correct in all things but one…I’m a she. 
They’re in the oven right now. This is a preliminary round of baking for the office potluck tomorrow. I’m trying a couple of experimental recipes that use melted ice cream in the filling instead of evaporated/condensed milk. One has Hagen Daaz Bailey’s Irish Cream flavor in it, and one has Hagen Daaz Triple Chocolate flavor.
If all goes well, I have enough leftover pumpkin puree and ice cream to make Mrs. WeHaveCookies and I a pie for Turkey Day proper that has both flavors of ice cream in it. Mmmmmm
Yum. Can you share the receipes, please?
I’m basically using this recipe, with a few changes. Some of the changes are discussed in the comments.
I used fresh pumpkins. The technique described at the bottom of the recipe worked really well, better than how I’ve always done it in the past, with the cut halves facing up.
As usual, I put in more of the spices than are called for in the recipe, doubling the ginger and nutmeg to 1/2 tsp each.
I let the ice cream melt completely, not just soften. I had to run the Triple Chocolate ice cream through the quisinart because I wasn’t paying attention at the store and didn’t realize it had chunks of truffle in it, and I wasn’t sure how they’d affect the setting of the filling if I’d left them whole.
I extended the 2nd baking time to 50 minutes.
I’m also a die-hard Pillsbury All-ready Pie Crust ™ fan. I figure using fresh pumpkins balances this with respect to my kulinary karma.
Thank you!
Darn you, perishable food!
I hate to go food shopping during the Thanksgiving rush. So I buy all the things I’ll need at least two weeks ahead of time. But the meats I’ll need for the jambalaya as well as the key lime pie are all perishable and can’t be bought until a day or two before the big event. This forces me to go and endure the crowds and lines even though I’m trying to be a good shopper.
I know, I could buy the stuff early and stick it in the freezer. But then I’d forget to take it out in time to thaw and poof, no jambalaya or pie on thanksgiving.
Hey, Mom and MIL? When we agreed to do Thanksgiving in Ohio, the plan was to do it at my house. If we were doing it at my house, I would cook Thanksgiving dinner. Now, all of a sudden, Thanksgiving has been moved to MIL and FIL’s house, and THEY are doing the bulk of the cooking, and Mom, you’re cooking everything else except my apple crisp (which takes about 20 minutes to prep)? So wait, hosting my first Thanksgiving in my own house has gone to attending Thanksgiving at my in-laws while my MIL and my mom do the cooking?
WTF just happened here? I WANTED TO COOK MY FIRST FREAKIN’ THANKSGIVING!
Curse you for existing, Thanksgiving. You are the most boring holiday of all.
Well, I received a call the other day from a friend who had four turkeys and wanted to know if we wanted one. Of course we said yes.
But we still don’t have the turkey and we weren’t given an ETA. I just called said friend to find out when we’d be getting it, and he’s too busy to talk. So I’m up in the air. Damn it.
I hate how the price of butter, sugar & cream “mysteriously” increase a buttload right around this time of the year. :rolleyes:
VCNJ~
I guess I’m just a big grump. I really find this holiday to be a big pain in the butt.
I haven’t done Thanksgiving in years; we usually go to MIL’s or to my sister’s house. My sister lives about an hour or hour and a half away. Except for on Thanksgiving; then it takes three hours. :mad: :rolleyes: For whatever reason, attempting to cross the Narrows Bridge on that day is a huge pain. She lives on the Penninsula, we have to come in from closer to Mt. Rainier.
Anyway, if we do T’giving at my sister’s house, we all bring a dish that she requests we bring. For whatever reason, I’m stuck with appetizers. Appetizers that must be ready when we get there, as the kitchen will be in full use. :rolleyes:
There will also be about 30 people there.
Frankly, I would just love to have a holiday that was JUST myself, husband and kids. We’ve NEVER, EVER had that. Thanksgiving MUST be done with family, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day MUST be done with family. We finally got out of New Year’s Day; Easter MUST be done with family. :rolleyes:
Most of our family lives right around here; can you all understand how this might get just a little old? Yeah, I’m a big grump…
I got married this past year and so it is the first time we have had to hash out the where to go for the holidays. And then just for the pure pleasure of collapsing in giggles, we suggest getting both of our families together in one location… (They’re not exactly chummy, let’s say.) So for the first time I will not be doing the traditional eating on the floor in the living room in front of the television with my family, but will instead be crowded in around a big farm table wondering which dishes exactly have liver sneaked into them… (not exactly a rant but close enough…?)
Right. The only justification for Thanksgiving is for me it marks the official beginning of the Christmas season. Which I LOVELOVELOVE!