Break out the Easy Bake Oven – It’s Pie Time

Today’s my favorite holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. When I was a kid it meant walking up the hill to my grandparent’s house and joining my 8 billion cousins for a traditional turkey dinner. Some years we even had snow and some of my favorite memories involve my late uncle tying inner tubes to his truck and taking us hookey bobbin down the ditch road. If you’ve never been hookey bobbin you haven’t lived – just saying.

As an adult we don’t generally see my family for Thanksgiving (unless they come to Seattle), it’s just too far and involved to travel to Eastern Oregon for the weekend. Usually I’m in the kitchen starting Wednesday working on a feast of epic proportions and we generally have house guests for the holiday, either friends or family. This year is different, we’re headed over to T-bird and Trixie’s place for dinner. For the first time in a long time I’m not responsible for the entire dinner or helping my mom get the whole thing together. It’s a weird feeling.

When we were originally invited to their house I asked Trixie what she wanted me to bring. She suggested pie, my answer was okay – that’s simple. Leave it to me to make it much more involved. Now I’m bringing cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, pecan pie and apple pie. There’s one thing that I’ll be missing desperately during dinner and that’s my mom’s stuffing – to me that’s the best part of the entire meal. Oh well, that just gives me a reason to make a turkey later this winter!

Instead of your typical I’m thankful for this that and the other thing, which I am have no doubt, I thought I’d show you what took up most of my day yesterday.

If you’re going to make pies you’ve got start with the ingredients first.

A pie can only be as good as it’s crust, that’s why I make all my own crust – always.

A pecan pie and a pumpkin pie waiting to be baked.

The end result one pecan, pumpkin and apple pie.