Our Turkey Hand Pumpkin Pies!

It’s almost Thanksgiving!!! Is anyone else as excited as I am?? Bug is now 27 months old, so this is the first holiday season that he will really be able to participate and understand what is going on around him. I am also SO very proud of hubby! He took the initiative to plan and schedule all of our family time and visits so that we would be able to keep everyone happy and everyone gets to see us all.

This past Thursday, my mom came up for a visit and lost of baking. I love baking; it’s a passion, but it’s so much more fun with company! We had our Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin from Halloween still around since we decided not to carve it this year while we weren’t home this year. So instead, I decided that I wanted to make some fresh, REAL Pumpkin Pie!

It was so much fun!! We chopped up that big ol’ pumpkin, roasted it, mashed, mushed, and turned it into a Perfect Pumpkin Pie! Here’s what we did!

When you destroy a Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin, this is what it looks like. The 9×13″ pan was overflowing!!

The roasted pumpkin seeds!

When all is said and done, THIS is how much pumpkin you get!! Each bag has 2 cups-worth of pumpkin (except for the little bag, that only has one cup). That is a total 13 cups-worth of pumpkin that we made from that ONE full pumpkin!!

And if you remember my earlier post here, about the picture I found… of course I had to do it! So who else do I recruit for my turkey but my sweet Bug!! Here is the finished Baby Turkeys Pumpkin Pie, that we will be enjoying next Saturday at my side of the family’s Thanksgiving.

And, the close up view. He LOVED pressing in the dough making the hand prints!! And he even helped paint some of the “feathers”.

Bring on the feasts!!!! What special Thanksgiving traditions do you and your family enjoy? After this year, we are adding our Turkey Hand Pumpkin Pies!

Posted on: November 21st, 2009 at 9:56 AM.
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