I’ve been charged with making the pumpkin pies to take to my niece’s this year. If I was the only one to be considered though, it would be homemade chocolate pie from my mom’s recipe with cream cheese whipped cream on top instead of the calf slobber that went on the pies meant for everyone but my dad and me.
Blueberry cream…
Key lime pie.
Hey, they’re always in season.
Pecan for sure! Second choice: chess.
Especially with the sour cream and the blueberry parts separate. However, I haven’t been able to find a decent recipe to make it this way (all of the ones I see mix the blueberries into the sour cream), and all of the Marie Callender’s anywhere near where I live closed a couple of years ago (the nearest one is 45 miles away), so I go with my second choice - pumpkin.
Banana cream is good, if (a) they leave the coconut off, and (b) it’s small enough that I can get through it before the bananas start to get brown. I’ll also go for a cherry pie, if you can convince me that all - and I mean all - of the pits have been removed from the cherries.
Would you try to pawn that off on an unsuspecting person? 'Cause if I was expecting sweet potato pie, I’d feel rooked. I fear I am but a benighted Left Coaster. For all I know, it may be the King of Pies; or at least the Queen of Pies, after Pecan. I don’t know if I’ll bishopping for one.
The wife has never had chess pie, so I’m really going to have to bake one someday. I know I have Grandma Garner’s recipe around here somewhere.
We’re little late for GRape Pie, which is one of my favorites, and past season for Blueberry, arguably my favorite, so it will have to be Apple Pie. We’ve used up the last of our hand-picked apples, though, so it’ll have to be store-bought apples.
Pepper Mill makes a mean Shoo-Fly Pie, too, part of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. Both she and Millical lie pumpkin pie, but I don’t casre for it myself.
My favorite pie is chocolate cream, which we’re making this year. Banana cream and apple are up there, too. I love pumpkin ice cream (Trader Joe’s has a really strong kind that’s great), but for some reason I’m not a fan of pumpkin pie.
I loves me a good tart cherry pie but most of the ones you find these days have no zing to them. When I find one, though…oh, heaven! I love any kind of tart pie, really. Lemon, key lime, straight rhubarb (no strawberries, please.) They’re all very good but the tart cherry pie is king.
Every year, Pops and I would try to find Mrs. Smith’s mincemeat pies but they’ve become rare a hen’s teeth in our area, with none to be found in the last two or three years. Looks like those bitches, Sara Lee and Marie Calender ganged up on kindly old Mrs. Smith and knocked her off the shelves. More’s the pity.
One of these days, I’m going to get one of those expensive jars of mincemeat and make my own pie. Or eat it straight from the jar, maybe.
Mmmm. Pecccccaaaaaaaaan Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeee Homer Simpson Drool
I second the mince meat pie and have bought the expensive jar before. But always pumpkin. It’s great for breakfast the next morning.
Concord grape pie and pumpkin pie are the traditions at our house. There are no leftovers of the grape.
Silenus, I though you went camping for Thankgiving every year. No?
I used to make pumpkin and pecan pies, but last year I saw this being made on my local news… pumpkin pecan pie! Yes, they are combined! It’s two, two, two pies in one! And it’s delicious. I will make them every year for Thanksgiving until I die.
Not that I don’t love me some apple pie and cherry pie, but Thanksgiving’s just not right without pecan pie. It’s on the short list of must-haves for my wife and I.
Pumpkin or sweet potato. When they’re done right, you could fool me into thinking one was the other.
old fashioned lemon meringue is my favorite.
for Thanksgiving mincemeat pie is good.
When a sweet potato pie is well-done, it is indeed amazing. My sister made one with a crumble topping, and OMG it was good.
No, you have to have just the right ratio of mince to crust to make it so tasty. I think mince tarts are the right ratio.
I like pumpkin pie just fine; pecan is a bit heavy for me, too. I don’t think I’ve ever had a cranberry pie, but I’m sure I’d like it - I don’t think I ever met a pie I didn’t like.
Pies, in order of undisputed goodness, most to least.
Apple (definitely needs cinnamon sprinkled on top though), Cherry, Blueberry, Pecan, Pumpkin (small slices only. That pie gets a bit…much), …everything else.
My family tends to smother all pie with cool whip, which I don’t really care for. Apple only wins with the cinnamon added. Otherwise the tartness of cherry wins out. I prefer tart over sweet. Pumpkin - I usually love the first 3 bites, then it’s a bit too much.