Bring on Your Pie Recipes

[annablume]

I'm on pie duty for Thanksgiving next week (no surprise).

I want to make an apple pie for certain. I was also thinking pumpkin, but I might want to change it up. Does anyone have any unusual pumpkin pie recipes they would recommend?

I'm also open to the possibility of a third pie - possibly pecan or wild card.

Thoughts?

Comments

[travellight]

Who doesn't love pecan pie?

I make a bitch ass apple pie.

You could also try a chocolate pie.

[annablume]

Steph. But she is clearly a freak.

I'll take the Pepsi challenge with your Apple Pie anyday, ya hear? Yup. I said it.

I may embark upon homemade cinnamon ice cream. That might be the way to go.

[travellight]

Steph knits at parties.

When I get back from the birthday dinner tonight, I'll tell you how I make my pie.

Also, do you think I should get one of those Ponté knit dresses from Lands' End? If so, which one?

[annablume]

Possibly. I like the cowl neck. You might want to order a size down to be certain it doesn't look like jammies.

[circekills]

in NYC, everyone's bonkers about a salted caramel apple pie that a bakery does here. perhaps you may want to incorporate a savory element into one of the pies to jazz it up? also, there's a beautiful chocolate/caramel torte w/ sea salt at a restaurant in williamsburg called marlow & sons that really wowed me. can you play around with something similar?

[annablume]

The salty chocolate and / or caramel thing is big here as well. I like it, but it makes me a little nervous in my own kitchen. A colleagues wife who makes homemade caramels has been experimenting with salted caramel this year and the results have been horrid. I suspect it's one of those things that is harder to balance than one might think. Of course, there's always Google-fu.

[damncutekitty]

How about pumpkin cheesecake?

[annablume]

My family isn't big on cheesecake. I have seen more than a few pumpkin pie recipes with cream cheese incorporated into the pumpkin, and I like the idea of a fluffier texture, but I think I would have to try it a different way. I wonder if I could do like a pumpkin french silk?

[chocolatechipkt]

Martha's apple crumb pie is really good.

I'm also making chocolate pecan pie with fresh cranberries
(http://areyouhungryyet.blogspot.com/2006/12/chocolate-cranberry-pecan-pie.html)

For something different, I made this last year and it was really really yummy: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/anne-thornton/salted-caramel-banana-pudding-pie-recipe2/index.html

-Kt

[annablume]

Pecan with chocolate and cranberry? You have my attention!

I've been thinking about flavors that I think might be good with pumpkin. Chai comes to mind, and I do find pumpkin chai pie recipes online. I wonder if pumpkin might be good with a little spice - like capsacin kind of spice - as I know it is good with chocolate and I thought that might be an interesting combination.