Happy Thanksgiving!  I didn’t have to do any cooking today, but I did do some baking.  I baked a pecan pie for Dan and my brother and sister in law – and that’s been eaten before I could get a picture of that.  The picture I did get was of the pumpkin pie that I made for the Kid – he wanted one all to himself, and we didn’t even take it with us to dinner.

Of course, it almost wasn’t a pie.  First, I had trouble finding the pumpkin – Libby’s farm had a real rainy season, and there was a pumpkin shortage.  Then, after I carefully divided the large can of pumpkin so that I could make just one pie, I almost added twice the sugar and spices!  This is what happens when you try to bake before coffee.  Then as I was adding the sweetened condensed milk, I happened to look at the recipe – which called for evaporated milk!  Being that it was already mixed in – I poured it in the pie plate and baked it off, no knowing if there was a pie disaster or not.

It wasn’t.  The Kid just had two pieces and liked it – which is all that matters.  And now we move on to the massive cookie baking spree – once I get the tree up tomorrow.