Pumpkin Pie & a Blender:
This entry is cross-posted on Emily’s excellent blog for those forced onto a liquid diet, Jaws Wired Shut. Check it out!!
When I was little, our neighbour grew these prize-winning pumpkins. They were MASSIVE. And every year, the vines would grow under the fence and a good number of pumpkins would grow in our yard. And by ‘a good number’, I’m talking like 20-30. Needless to say, we had a problem with hooligans smashing pumpkins in our neighbourhood. We also had an absurd number of Jack-O-Lanterns, which led to an absurd number of smash Jack-O-Lanterns in our driveway.
That said, it also meant that we had easy access to pumpkin for eating. My mom makes delicious pumpkin pie that starts with a real pumpkin and not some crap from a can. And oh, the difference it makes. I definitely have a heart-on for all things pumpkin.
A few months back, I posted that I’d had my wisdom teeth out and was trying to find interesting things to eat, Connor from Hold the Beef recommended a pumpkin pie shake. I got the recommendation at about 8:30am and was at the grocery store 10 minutes later, buying up all the ingredients. Not only until I got home and got to talking Emily did it hit me that an actual pumpkin pie is pretty blendable (and in my case, soft enough to eat as-is, but I was pretty paranoid for the first couple of days). So we decided to try a delicious experiment: concocted shake vs. blended pie.
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Best Of: Luke’s Thanksgiving
To start, the actual title of this series “The Best of: Thanksgiving when you’re a single 20-something whose parents are an 18 hour drive away and whose roommate really hates Thanksgiving.” But that would have eaten up a lot of screen space, so I decided to trim it a bit. Also, too, however, and as well (Palin-ism), my Thanksgivings have not always been unfortunate affairs. I used to have great, delicious, possibly nutritious family gatherings that left everyone sleepy and a bit testy, and I’ve even had some good Thanksgivings in Toronto. But they’ve been a slippery slope heading toward a downward spiral. And they are documented… HERE. Read more
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