Right after Halloween, the kids and I were at Ralphs. I was surprised when they still had pumpkins left. There was a worker stocking in that department. I asked him how much the pumpkins were and he said, "hold on, let me go ask." He came back and said, "how about a $1 each? We want to get rid of them!" I couldn't believe it! We ended up getting buying 4 pumpkins! One was a nice 18 pounder (that is still sitting on my kitchen table on January 1st, lol!) and 4 baking pumpkins. I honestly didn't know that there was a different kind of pumpkin to bake with, since I have always used a can! (hangs her head in shame!) The pumpkin pie recipe was on a sticker right on the pumpkin.
I cut the pumpkin up and cleaned all the seeds out of it and de-stringed it as best as I could! It was super stringy!
Who knew that such a small pumpkin would have so many seeds in it?!?
I chopped up the pumpkin and put it in a baking dish. I didn't know how much meat it would make, since it didn't seem that thick. I covered it in foil and baked it.
It came out like this. The skin just peeled off and it was all flesh!
My hand mixer had broke, so I ended up mixing all the ingredients in the BLENDER! A first for me! LOL! I had to do a little bit at a time, but it worked! The pumpkin is sort of dry, so I just had to make sure there was enough moisture to blend it!
My daughter was helping me! She is a good mama's helper! We poured the mix into the graham cracker crust. It tasted like pumpkin pie, so I figured we were doing something right! ;)
Getting ready to go in the oven
All done! And I marked it with a heart! We had it for Thanksgiving and it was pretty tasty!
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