When I first decided that I wanted to become a localvore, I got really excited about Thanksgiving and I was determined to make a real pumpkin pie. I went online looking for the best recipe and found a great one at http://www.pickyourown.org/pumpkinpie.php.
I bought a pie pumpkin from the farmers market a few weeks before Thanksgiving. I had organic sugar on hand ( I could of used local honey, but honestly I have never had honey in a pumpkin pie before and I wanted it to go well the first time). My mom had pumpkin pie spice from Penzeys Spices and I got organic evaporated milk at whole foods. The eggs were also from the farmers market.
Ok..so on to the pie making! First I washed the outside of the pumpkin with some warm water. Then I cut it into four sections and cleaned out the inside with an ice cream scoop.
I made sure to save and dry the seeds for some toasted pumpkin seeds. After I was done scooping the pumpkin goop I went to put the pumpkin in a metal steamer to find out my mom didn't have one. I asked if she had anything that I could use to steam the pumpkin. After looking through a lot of stuff, we finally stumbled upon a home canning pot and inside of it was a metal rack for the jars. It was also perfect for my pumpkin slices!
I steamed them for about 25 min and then took them out and spooned out the meat of the pumpkin. I then followed the recipe and put it inside my pie crust.For the pie crust I wanted to make one out of butter. I didn't want to use crisco or anything like that so I looked online and after A LOT of searching I found this recipe. http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/perfect_pie_crust/.
The crust turned out really well!
I made the denser pie that the recipe talks about which is 1 can of evaporated milk instead of 1 1/2 and three eggs instead of 4. The pie turned out wonderfully. It was really good too so I was proud of myself. I think I will experiment a little bit more next year!
Hrmmm...that counter looks awfully familiar...
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