What Kind O' Pie?
 

Today is Thanksgiving here in 'merka.

I'm sorry about ur not having thanksgiving in whatever land you, a non-'merkin, are in.

You can still have PIE, though.

I just had pecan pie with whipped cream and it's NOT EVEN DINNER YET!!

Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Cream Pie are both on the menu here.

( altho no, the Swiss have no idea about either )

pecan pie...

make your own?.. or buy?

I'll be having whatever pie they have left at the grocery store this morning...even if it's a quiche!

Not really a pie liker. Except apple. I could eat five apple pies in a row. Pumpkin is OK. I like a chocolate mousse type pie. And my cheeseburger pie.

I don't know what sis-in-law has in store but I bet I don't have room for pie!

Black bottom pie. Recipe includes: Bananas, chocolate pudding, whipping cream and rum.

Pumpkin and apple were planned, but my wife didn't make enough crusts last night.
So the pumpkin will be traditional, and the apple will be more of a "beggar's purse"

In earlier years, our kids didn't so much like apple or pumpkin.
They made a big commotion to have Mom make cherry pie instead... until Mom told them:
"We are having cherry pie this year... just made with apples"
.

Ha! My brother says I'm un-merkin since I don't like cherries. He wants to deport me.

I have made my own and it's a killer recipe BUT I can never, never, never make the inside solid without burning the crust --- I mean, never.

So, this year I bought. It's Grandma Tobias pecan pie.

also having cherry pie (which is waaaay better than apple even if you put cheddar on your apple pie!) and chocolate cream pie.

Mom is doing pumpkin and mincemeat.

Pumpkin and/or sweet potato pies, maybe pecan pie, and definitely chocolate pie and Jello pie (which goes in a rectangular baking dish rather than a pie tin, but that just means there's more of it to enjoy.)

We like desserts.

I think pies are over rated. We're having apple crisp. Ten times better than apple pie. I'm looking forward to it.

I like apple crisp, too, glatt.


What is Jello pie?

Is that a sneaky way of saying "Jello" - ?

Occupie, of course.

I'm afraid pie on this day is another American thing (at least to my and mine).
Some people might have eaten pies, but chances are they will have been savoury, meaning non-sweet.
I had a jacket potato, the 'rents are having pasta.

They are already selling mince pies in the shops (sweet mincemeat, mentioned before).
But I'm not a great fan.

My favourite pie is a Pieminister Moo and Blue Pie.
Beef and Stilton.
But it's the wrong time of the week AND the wrong time of the month (payday wise) to have one.

Note to self - never go to the US during Thanksgiving. You will come across as a surly furriner, not really liking sweet pies, or nuts, or pumkins or anything candied.

Good one, Steve.

How about cellar Pie? All the other wayward sheep have popped back.


Oh PPIIIII--EEEEEE?!?!?!?

I had pumpkin pie, brownie, brownie pie with raspberry cream topping, and cake. I ate all that after eating turkey and a little of all the sides. Oh yeah, and that's after I had 4 different types of appetizers. :D My stomach still hurts from overeating. :thepain:

none so far

It's this stuff. It's Jello, yes, but with fruit in it, plus whipped cream, plus a pretzel crust. It's redneck baking, for sure.

Wow Clodfobble - that looks sooooo good!!

And may I say - you are an amazing woman. I know you hear that from all of us - but you really, really are just tremendous.

:)

Pecan pie is the best, and my mommy's is the bestest of the best.

my mommy's is the bestest of the best.

Nuh Uhhh !!!
Mines was WAY Betterer !!! ;)

Does she put love in her's? Huh? Does she? ;)

Love and a Bit of Bourbon

Ok, you win. My crappy mother never put in bourbon.

First liar always loses... :rolleyes:

You know, it probably wasn't real love, either. She probably used like Splenda love or something. I've seen a box of "Luv" in her pantry, I'll bet that's what she used. :sniff:

No winners , No Loosers dude ,
Moms is the Bestest brand

There's a few of us about ;) I miss meat and potato pies from the chippy.

No pie but an Ok Cobbler from the dutch oven ,
Good but still sloppy ,
Got to work on that

I went to a buffet with wrongwaycorrigan. I had blueberry. momwolf didn't like blueberry, so I rarely got to have it since the supermarket doesn't sell individual slices, and the half-pies are nearly always apple or cherry.

Sounds yummy, but what is it, exactly?

Never mind, it's a pot pie

If you get it from the chippy, is it deep fried?

Ah! Now I know what a pot pie is!
And no, not everything from a chipshop is deep-fried.

Except perhaps in Scotland...

Don't get me wrong.... the thought of a deep fried pot pie makes my mouth water.

The Zicato family is all about dessert - going back several generations. So we had five pies at Thanksgiving.

Two chocolate, one apple, one pumpkin, one pecan.

Pie is not required. You can fake American by eating vast quantities of turkey and dressing. Prolly be some of that string bean/cream of mushroom soup/fried onion rings stuff too. Definitely be some mashed potatoes.

And corn casserole!

we call it 'maize casserole'

:lol:

Sure and that'll throw 'em for a loop, eh wot?

:lol:

Maybe in the UK it would be 'grain casserole' - ?

Yeah 'cause of the Corn Laws.

It's like Bopsey Kernels now. Bopsey Kernals on the Rod, great for a heat and eat on the rolling ground kiln, in aluminiminimunium papier, wi' a dab o' clarified potted grease, and a tech of the ol' sodium, eh now.

I looked it up.
So pffft! :p:

Actually it was nothing like I expected.
It's not really a casserole though, is it?

Looks yummy though.
I would wreck that.

I drew a blank on Bopsey Kernels though :thepain3:

It is the yum.

I made most of that stuff up.

I dunno about casserole. My sis-in-law's concoction seems like a casserole. It's casserolesque, anyway.

casserole means anything in a casserole dish and threatened with an oven here, Sundae. Dear Americans, casseroles have meat, potatoes and a few veg. maybe. And are usually slow-cooked.

:D :bolt:

Uhh Mon , that would be a Cassoulet

Yeah, and pies are meat.

Sis-in-law's cornstuffs IN a casserole dish IN the oven. We need to add some kind of finely chopped meat product for legitimacy? Can it be real meat or does it need to be brain or stomach or gristle? :lol:

Oh, eh, wot blimey lot pot?

This is why we wanted independence.

;)

When Mrs. Z was younger, she and her roommate went to a potluck party where everyone was supposed to bring a casserole. They brought M&M casserole to a party. (M&Ms in layers of plain, peanut, plain, in a casserole dish) It was a hit.

Later, on a whim, they submitted the recipe to the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis. The paper loved it there and even did a food section story on Mrs. Z and roomate - and printed the "recipe" in full.

I'd call that a crock-pot dish.

Yes, because that's what it is.

I thought a crockpot was something that had to be plugged in?
I've always avoided the recipes because I don't have one.

Yes and no. Crockpot is a brand name for a slow cooker. It's basically a dutch oven with its own heating element. You could do the crockpot recipes in a dutch oven with the heat turned sufficiently low.

I love peach-mango pie. ^_^

'Pie'occupies a different cultural space over here I think. Different connotations entirely.

Oo et all the pies?