Almost Homemade Pumpkin Pie

Jenn at Coffee on the Porch with Me reminded me that there is a pumpkin pie recipe behind the label on cans of ED Smith pumpkin. I bought a tart shell and proceeded to make a delicious pumpkin pie with homemade filling. It tasted a lot better than a completely store bought pie, somehow the filling is more like pure pumpkin, with less additives, less sugar.  And really the hard part must be in making the crust.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving 2018!

pumpkin pie with whipped cream

Don't eat too much!

My Pumpkin

So I got my seasonal pumpkin. Hope you are having a wonderful Canadian Thanksgiving weekend!

And have a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream for the long weekend:

And in the news some brilliant scientists have won the Nobel prize in Chemistry. They are such brilliant people, discovering that cells repair DNA and pointing the way to possibly disrupting cancer cells' DNA repair mechanism.

Fall Food

I came upon this 'Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Skillet Supper' by Marie at The English Kitchen. I decided to try it and it is quite delicious.  Poor Marie just became a diabetic and will be focussing on healthy meals for diabetics from now on in her blog.  This is timely as my husband was also diagnosed.  This recipe was before she became diabetic, but cabbage is full of fibre.

This article discusses the health benefits of pumpkin pie. One slice is 323 calories and it has 23% of your day's fat, but the spices (cinnamon,ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves) used to make it are good for you and the pumpkin itself is full of healthy fibre.

Canadian Winter Pumpkin Pie

Lilly, here's a pumpkin pie recipe for you. I'm not really a baker, I usually just pick one up from my favourite grocery store, with a can of whipped cream that K just inhales.

My step class wasn't crowded today for some reason, I think they were all in Walmart which seemed busy at that hour. Everyone must be shopping for Thanksgiving or getting ready for Halloween.

The driving school called to set up in-car lessons for L, so she'll be starting those at the end of the month. So I should give her a bit of practice in a nearby parking lot on the weekends.

K's English and Music teacher (one and the same) called with a few complaints. That's the usual case this time of year. Hopefully Math and Science won't call. M took the call and was of course, upset. I handled it well yesterday. I took the approach, 'what can we do to help?'. We'll just have to take it one step at a time. Macbeth is not for everyone. Shakespeare's English at that time was quite different. I'm beginning to doubt whether K is university material, though. He'll be in grade 9 next year. L is doing a bunch of advanced courses in grade 11 and has noticed that these classes contain some smart boys. They make bets with each other to see who will get the highest mark on a test. Different than some she's known previously (smile).


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