Get In The Kitchen And Bake Me A Pie!

Welllllll, the past few days have not been good ones as I have been sniffling and blowing my nose repeatedly and nursing a headache and swollen foot. The sniffles, nose issues, and headache are from a serious bout of allergies I'm sure and the foot issue is from an ill-fated attempt at walking Saturday. Yes, I am talented like that.

Since I haven't felt well, we have had very easy to make, quick dinners; ie: Amy's Soups. Oh, how I love Amy's...we have had quite a bit of chili, dal, and the no-chicken chicken noodle. Yum. But soup does not satisfy the sweet tooth...oh no. For that I had to scavenge the cupboard. In doing so I found a can of pumpkin pie mix that I had accidentally bought instead of plain pumpkin one day. Oops. Upon seeing it I thought, 'Hmmm, I sure would like some pie.' So, I decided to make a pumpkin pie. This had to be the easiest pie I have ever made...

As luck would have it I actually had a pre-made wheat crust in the freezer that I had picked up one day from Wheatsville Co-op, my favorite store...I preheated the oven to 450 degrees as called for on the can. I mixed the pie mix with 3/4 cup of soy milk and the equivalent of 2 eggs (using EnergG Egg Replacer). The recipe on the can called for evaporated milk but I decided to sub out soy milk. I should have looked up the equivalent to evap milk, but I was feeling quite crappy and decided to go full force with the soy milk. Maybe not the best decision but it could have been worse...

After mixing the ingredients, I poured the mix into the pie shell and placed into the pre-heated oven for 15 minutes. I then turned down the heat to 350 for an additional 40 minutes. Once the time was up the pie was taken out of oven and allowed to cool...a very agonizing wait I might add. The pie did look good, I must say...and I also noticed the cat was eying it, too. Fortunately Fleische decided he wasn't in the mood for pie. Whew!

After the appropriate amount of time had elapsed I dug in. Tasty, but not quite 'pumpkin pie spicy' enough. I like my pie a little more spicy but this was close. In terms of texture it wasn't quite firm...more the consistency of pudding. So, it was like a pumpkin pie pudding pie. Yum.

Final result: not bad.

In  other news, I had to take my husband's car to get an oil change today at Groovy Lube and while I was sitting outside waiting drinking some iced tea, the following fell on my head.

I looked up and saw several birds. As I watched I noticed they were breaking open these seeds or hulls and as they finished, they dropped the left over parts, one of which fell on my head. I am just glad that was all they dropped on my head...

And for the last picture of the night, here is my little girl, Shimano. She has been sticking close by while I've been sick. Last night in bed she crawled up in between T and I and fell asleep. She makes a good heated pillow :-)

Happy MoFo!