<p>I will admit that I am ordering part of the meal from our local grocery co-op.( since I haven’t bought a new refrigerator yet, I don’t have much room)
I also really love pumpkin pie & I will eat it for breakfast for as long as it lasts.( it also comes with the side dishes-although i could have ordered apple :o)</p>
<p>But you are right it is repetitive, with the delicata squash D is bringing.</p>
<p>Maybe I will make baked apples to go with turkey sandwiches for the next day.</p>
<p>Guests bring the desserts to our Thanksgiving dinner. I have confirmation of pumpkin pies, chocolate cheesecake, apple crumb cake and pistachio baklava tarts. Still waiting for the final guest to share her choice. I’d love something light and citrus-y.</p>
<p>Cherry pie is Mr B’s favorite dessert, so it is easy to guess what I will make. Not exactly traditional, but since he hates all things pumpkin, except those mini-pies filled with pumpkin-meat filling, I have to make something that will be eaten. I will use this as my excuse to buy some ice cream for myself, because I’m not a huge fan of cherry pies. :)</p>
<p>+1 1moremom — pie and coffee with a splash of eggnog. That’s my 10 holiday pounds right there!</p>
<p>My kids would revolt if we had anything other than pumpkin pie with whipped cream. When we hosted Thansgiving for other guests, they would bring dessert since they didn’t like pumpkin pie.</p>
<p>Hanna has me lusting for a citrus sorbet now – maybe lemon made from my gorgeous Meyer lemons from Costco.</p>
<p>I have nothing against heavy, sweet desserts in general, mind you! Some kind of frangipane pear thing would be my ideal in November after an ordinary meal. And I’ll eat whatever I’m served at my sister’s (last year it was a sort of crumble cake).</p>
<p>Hm, now I’m thinking about pears in white wine…</p>
<p>My relative always goes off the deep end with dessert.
I expect she will have some sort of flourless chocolate thing that they really love - but I am not a big fan of chocolate and not when there are mashed potatoes.
She also makes a pie that is more shoo-fly than pecan pie.
I have been to dinners where there is a pie for every two people!
My teeth hurt just thinking about it.
But it reminds me of family dinners hosted by my great aunt ( she had the biggest house), but where most of the women including my grandmother brought pie. You soon learned to save room, because everyone expected you to try theirs.</p>
<p>BBs contribution has this tune now stuck in my head.
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<p>You’re welcome.
;)</p>
<p>I’m planning to make a pumpkin cheesecake with gingersnap crust, an apple pie with crumb topping and a pumpkin pecan pie and provide ice cream.</p>
<p>bethie - is the pumpkin cheesecake recipe from Smitten Kitchen? I was thinking about that. I felt I would have to choose between pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin pie, but maybe I don’t!</p>
<p>D1 is making a cheesecake; D2 & DH are making an apple pie; and I am making a low fat, low sugar banana pudding.</p>
<p>No pumpkin pie for us. My mom used to make one for DH, but he was the only one who ate it and the last two she made weren’t very good. </p>
<p>I am loving the idea of different flavors of whipped cream (adding a pint of heavy cream to my grocery list now!)</p>
<p>Pumpkin pie, pecan pie, pear pie and mincemeat squares. I might make apple pie instead of pear pie, but I might make both.</p>
<p>Love the six rules. I always think anyone who doesn’t make turkey for thanksgiving has some nefarious reason that I cannot fathom and therefore I spend the rest of the evening trying to figure out what is wrong and then my stomach hurts. (Of course my stomach always hurts on Thanksgiving.)</p>
<p>Decided on pumpkin pie (Dorie Greenspan recipe with sour cream and rum); steamed persimmon pudding; ginger poached pears.</p>
<p>Apple pie and pumpkin pie with bourbon whipped cream (there will only be 5 of us), but poached pears sounds yummy. Hmm . . . .</p>
<p>CROCKPOT INDIAN PUDDING</p>
<p>Other people make pies to go with turkey dinners. I leave that to my mom (who “bakes” Mrs Smith pies). I make crockpot Indian Pudding, started after the turkey is in the oven. With the corn meal and molasses, it seems a very Thanksgiving-ish dish This is a not-too-sweet recipe, good after a heavy meal. You can eat it plain or with vanilla ice cream melting on it. I reheat it for breakfast with a little milk.</p>
<p>I disagree with the six rules.
What would Thanksgiving be without children putting olives on the ends of all their fingers and eating the cream cheese but leaving the celery?
;)</p>
<p>I usually make pumpkin pie, pecan pie and a cake. (D’s don’t like pie)</p>
<p>I’m not going to make the pumpkin pie this year as I am the only one that eats it. So maybe a fruit crisp, and maybe just brownies, along with the pecan pie.</p>
<p>I’m bringing pecan pie. When I do Thanksgiving at home I do one apple pie and one pecan pie. If someone wants pumpkin they have to bring it because I don’t really like it. Personally I’m for tried and true and what I know everyone likes!</p>
<p>Heh, heh Hanna, I remember the year at the big family Thanksgiving when someone who will remain nameless made all the pies and they were all fluffy. Yuck! I do like key lime pie though, just not for Thanksgiving. That said, I think ginger poached pears, or poire au vin would be pretty good if you wanted something a little lighter.</p>
<p>ek – olives and cream cheese on celery are not salad or appetizers. They are relishes. They are there to amuse small children and to keep them from gagging on the brussels sprouts. Okay in my book. But I do agree with him on you must serve turkey and no chocolate. Chocolate seems like overkill after stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.</p>
<p>Well, now I will go ahead and exorcise this demon within me – I HATE PIE!! </p>
<p>So there, I just don’t get pie in any flavor or incarnation. </p>
<p>I’m making a 1992 Food & Wine recipe that I love raspberry chocolate cake. You do it in a springform pan with a hazelnut crust. Tons of work – light and rich at the same time. Oh, will also make the beloved Teddie’s Apple Cake with some Vanilla Ice Cream.</p>
<p>No pie. None. Nada.</p>