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Graceunderfyre
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01-21-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I need help!!! Any ideas on where I can buy fresh pumpkins for my pie? This is the first year I've been in an apartment with no garden. . . do they have them at the regular grocery store or will I have to go Wholefoods?

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You can buy pumpkin pre-canned..just make sure check the instructions on how many pies each can can make. You will also have to check what spices and other ingredients you need etc. to make it. You can also buy it ready to cook too.

You can make the pie ahead of time and freeze it until you need it.

My suggestion..go to the bakery and order one and buy some whip cream for the top and you're done lol

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grace, call some of the local pumpkin patches, in Buffalo Grove IL there are a couple, in Grayslake there is one or two, any farmstands? You can also ask at the grocery stores if they have any (I noticed the Dominicks in Vernon Hills had a few last week, not today tho!)

Also, I'll tell you another "secret" to great pumpkin pie, (and I confess to cheating and use the pre canned stuff) I grate fresh ginger into my mixture!! yummmm

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There's nothing better than pie made with fresh pumpkins. It seems the pumpkins are all ready for Halloween and gone by Thanksgiving more and more. Wish I knew where to send you. Hope you can find some real pie pumpkins and not the big stringy ones. If you have seen pumpkins for sale before at a church or nursery, you might try the people who run them?

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks guys! I finally found a farm stand in Aurora that was setting up Christmas trees, the owner told me it would be $.20 a pound when I called but the gal feeding the animals in their petting zoo told me to just take them. So we got 3 nice sugar pumpkins :-)

Pumpkin pie is my favorite and I keep trying to tell my mom there is a HUGE difference between canned and fresh pumpkin. . . oh to find another true connoisseur. . .

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
there is a HUGE difference between canned pumpkin and fresh pumpkin. also, pumpkin pie shouldn't be made with just regular pumpkins, but with sugar pumpkins. i have the BEST recipe for pumpkin pie (it won the California State Fair in 1990!). if you want it, i won't post it, but just PM me, and i'll send it to you.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 10:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Way Cool Grace!! I thought there should be a farm stand around with a pumpkin or two around here for you!! :-)

Yeah Landi!! If I ever get daring enough, I'd love to try and bake a pie from scratch, I think DD would love to be involved in the process!! So I'll keep you in mind!!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hee Hee, someone should ask KTBB about pumpkin pie recipes.

One year, she made one round of pies and forgot to add sugar. Of course, we can never let her live it down!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 10:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
reader, this is the easiest recipe you'll ever try. i just am trying to make sure this recipe stays mine, for future contests and stuff, so that's why i don't want to post it for the masses to just download. i've worked on it too many years. it even has an "easy" version using pillsbury pie crust that anyone can make!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've never made pumpkin pie from a pumpkin and I've never heard of sugar pumpkins!!! I was talking to my friend in Australia and she was telling me what she was fixing for supper [ok dinner, but I call it breakfast, lunch, and supper, sometimes dinner if I go out, and was raised never saying lunch, it was dinner except for school which was lunch.] and she told me pumpkin was a vegetable! I'm like I'm so dumb I always thought of it as a fruit. But for some reason I looked it up today, and indeed it is a fruit that is sometimes called a vegetable. stasija says that they cook it like they do any other squash. I guess I never heard of pumpkin being eaten any other way than pie, bars, cookies, etc.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Landi, and I do understand, I was watching the Food Network and they showcased Celebration FL Pie Contest!! However, the more I read, the more tempted I am to try!! And I think every good cook would add thier own stamp to it!!

Serate, I think it has something to do with seeds, remember the tomato? It's also a fruit, but is often considered a veggie!! It has to do with seeds, fruits have seeds, veggies dont (so someone explain peas)

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Reader for trying to explain. *L* I was just shocked when she said she was making a vegetable medley of sauteed squash, peppers, onions, and pumpkin. I'd never heard of pumpkin any way but a desert! But then again she'd never heard of peanut butter and chocolate together, so I think I had the better upbringing. *L*

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pumpkin is no harder to use than an Idaho potato! The only difference is that you have to scoop out the seeds! You peel it, cook it and mash it just the same. BUT the taste is such an improvement over canned. I guess I'm a pumpkin pie spice snob, because I don't use pumpkin pie spice already mixed up in a can either. I prefer to add each spice in varying amounts for the best flavor. I also prefer 'real' cream whipped in a chilled metal bowl to top it with. Heavenly!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't use pumpkin pie spice either. I prefer the individual spices, and tons of cinnamon!!!!! Well actually the amount of spices and what kinds are what my family prefers as I don't really care for pumpkin pie. It's not that I don't like it, it's that I could care less if I have it or not. I'll eat it, but if there's not enough to go around it doesn't break my heart and I'll be the first to say take my piece.

I've never had real whipped cream - how do you make it?

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 5:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's really easy, Serate. Just take a pint of heavy [whipping] cream, 1 1/2 T sugar, and either a half teaspoon of vanilla extract OR [my preference] use sugar that is stored with vanilla beans.

Use a VERY cold bowl and whip COLD cream until just before it peaks. Then add the sugar and vanilla extract until it starts to stiffen. Just be careful not to overbeat it or it can turn too buttery.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Tishala! I can't wait to try it.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Tishala - perfect! Serate you find a little box of 'whipping' cream in the dairy section near the milk, chocolate milk and coffee creamers. Also just put your bowl and the beaters in the freezer for a couple of minutes before you make it, and make sure your bowl will be big enough for the expansion of the cream.


Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you have an immersion blender (you know, the stick kind?), you can whip up just the amount of real whipped cream you need. I pour the amount I need in a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup. The immersion blender takes only a minute or so.

I use both the actual spices AND pumpkin pie spice in my pumpkin pie. I like mine really spicy.

And although this is a tad bit late, I've got a recipe that makes a upside down pumpkin "pie" that's great for traveling (you know, if you are the one to bring the pie to a family dinner). You make it in a 13"x9" cake pan and so it's easy to transport. (Note: This is a recipe that I made up. I'd had something similar to this once in a mix that was pretty expensive. So I kinda reverse engineered it and came up with this recipe. It's now a family favorite!)