Happy Thanksgiving!
November 25th, 2009 categories: My Favorite....
This is by far my most favorite holiday. Turkey, lots of fun with family, food and pumpkin pie that I make from scratch.
Pumpkin Pie From Scratch
This year I’ve added a new and daunting aspect to my pumpkin pie. This year I’m diving off the
cliff and making my pie with fresh crust not store bought crust.
In the past, I thought that I just didn’t possess the kitchen / baking prowess to create my own crust. That was until I went to our friends and past clients, Rick and Belinda Davis.
Belinda is from Oklahoma originally and has that southern charm that just makes ya want to give her a kiss every time she opens her mouth. She is just so sweet!
Along with being from the south comes the easy kitchen prowess. She whipped up homemade crust like pouring milk into a bowl of Cheerios, she made it look that easy. It was delicious!
Fortunately for me, she was willing to share her recipe with me. But as I don’t have her permission to share it with you, you’ll have to do some major sucking up to get it! 
No, you should be able to find it all over the internet along with my recipe for Eagle Brand Pumpkin Pie.
Here is a link to the recipe that I’ve used to make “the best pumpkin pie I’ve ever had” for 20 years. Mess with the spices to taste and don’t get too locked in to the recipe spices if you can avoid it. Following the instructions make it just about dummy proof.
I add a little cloves, a bit more cinnamon than it calls for cause that’s the way my wife likes it. (mother in law had the cloves idea)
The difference for me is that I use pumpkins, clean, peel and boil to get the meat where it’s pie ready. I don’t use pumpkin from a can….NOT that there’s anything WRONG with that! If you go this route, use sugar / baking pumpkins not the jack o’ lantern variety.
I hope you have many things, as I do, to be grateful for. I know a lot of us have had a tough time with the economy and such. It really serves to prove that the only things that really matter are family, love and giving to one another.
Those things can’t evaporate in a recession, be foreclosed on or sold short. You don’t have to get approval from a bank, write 50 offers or give 4 pints of blood to qualify! You’re in!
Get out there and have an awesome holiday!
Wishing you abundance and joy………..
Thanks for visiting! I’m most grateful that you have.
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Eagle Brand Pumpkin Pie
November 20th, 2008 categories: Market Commentary, My Favorite....
A Family Tradition
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, I was a PGA golf professional at a little club in Salinas, California named Corral de Tierra Country Club. As I look back on my working life, it was probably the best job I’ve ever had. The membership was phenomenal, people from the agriculture business who were hard working and enjoyed life. The golf course, for my game at the time, was challenging, in great condition and I was able to play all I wanted. The Head Professional, Gerry, was tough to work for but as I look back on it now, he was a very positive influence on my life and I depended on him for advice years later. He’s a wonderful person. I believe he is still employed there in the same capacity today which, for the golf business, is simply unbelievable.
The pros they had in the past didn’t get along too well with the ladies club. Gerry was good with them but it seemed that I ended up with the Tuesday morning shift more often than the other guys. That was fine with me, the ladies club was odd at times but overall I loved the shift. I always made a big deal when any of them came in the shop and we had fun.
There was one lady in particular who took to me. Her name was Doris Davis and she had to be close to 80 years old when I worked there. She had a problem with one of the pros before me so she didn’t come into the pro shop much until the Tuesday morning shift was mine. Like a lot of the other ladies, every time she came in, I’d give her a big hello and a little hug, she loved it.
One year, I think it was 1988, we got to talking about Thanksgiving and I told her I always wanted to make pumpkin pie from scratch. Buy some pumpkins, boil them up and make pies. She lit up and said she had a great pumpkin pie recipe that would work and would I like it. I said that I would and she brought it in the next day. That was 20 years ago.
A Simple Pumpkin Pie
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