In a little house, somewhere out there, in place where vines and trees twirl amongst each other...
A girlwoman stood in silence, contemplating...
And then, she made a decision.
She cooked two of her babies, you see... (pumpkin babies, that is)
She began by placing them, one by one, in the microwave for 2 minutes.
Then took them out, poked holes in them, and put them back in the micro for 3 minutes.
When the cooking machine pinged, she promptly took them out, wrapped them in foil, and let them sit on the counter for 5 minutes.
Then she unwrapped them, their flesh hot and soft, and sliced them in half...
She scooped out their guts, and then using a large spoon, scooped out their flesh and put it in a big bowl...
Then, she used this recipe here, to make a butter crust.
While the crust dough chilled in the fridge, she popped the pumpkin babe flesh in the food processor, and turned it into mush.
She popped the mush into a big bowl and then........
Cinnamon, allspice, ginger & sugar infused the house...
Through the scents of the spices, a tingle and glimmer of the holidays embraced her.
She thought to herself as she mixed, about how she didn't mind crowds of people and over-zealous decor and frill during the holidays. In fact, she quite loved it. She couldn't wait. It had been a long summer, filled with much goodness and also, many tears. A long summer indeed.
She continued mixing, as scents with memories going back to age 3, plinekty plinkie plinked around the room...
By the way, she used this recipe here for her filling.
Then she rolled out her crust, put it in a pie dish (attempting a cute edging), and poured in her mixture. And, since she had extra crust dough and mixture, she made a tiny pie for one...
With that, 2 of her sugar baby pumpkins slowly became...
Pie.
Pumpkin pie.
(Oh and, she had to pull the pie out of the oven, and put foil around the crust early in baking, as it was browning too quickly for her liking)
It was late at night, as she thought about munching the entire baby pie on her own, and not letting anyone know there ever had been a baby pie ;)
Mister Lovee arrived right in time to share the little guy, as the girl reminded him, "doesn't my piiieee look deeeeeelicious???" tee heeee.
In the morning, they found mooore peaches and, gasp, roses ready to come inside. How there were roses again in such desert heat was just unbelievable. She was certain it was Baby, keeping her busy. Keeping her smiling. Yes yes, that must have been it.
They marveled at the flavor of the pie. It was unusually delicious. It was unlike anything they had really ever tasted...
As they ate pumpkin pie for breakfast, they read all the information the girl had found about making pumpkin pie at home, and you will never guess what they found???
Most of the canned pumpkin pie filling and frozen pumpkin pies contain very little pumpkin, and mostly butternut squash. Could it be true, what they read?
Who knows.
All they knew was that, their pie was divine.
They felt lucky.
The girl felt the whole thing to be quite surreal. To grow your own pumpkins and cook them up, and eat them? She had only dreamed of such things. She watched longingly as other folks did it.
And now, to be eating her own grow-ables felt like the greatest gift of mother nature.
She was inspired to grow more edibles.
She was hooked. No matter how much she wanted to sleep in. The garden won.
It's odd, how the desire to see what is growing day to day, gets you out of bed that early.
But you know what else? The fact that nature gives you everything you need is astounding. Seeds inside of flowers and pumpkins a plenty. Worms to make your soil delicious, thorns so plants can protect themselves, and on and on....
Just amazing.
The girl was in love with nature, collecting her seeds for next year, and being all around thankful to the earth.
Will she eat the 10 babies in her home now? Or the 20+ babies growing?
Probably ;)
After that pie, how could she not?
And with that, she sang-whispered under the sky...
Pumpkin vine, oh pumpkin vine, high up in the tree, please tell the earth, thanks, from me...
And so friends, that is my delicious yet pointless post, as promised ;)
♥,V
3 Random's for today.
1) Mammie (my Mom) was my visitor. The best guest a girl could ask for. I love her. She is wonderful. Now, I should tell you, I couldn't stand my parents in the height of teenagedom, but around 20 it all changed, drastically, all by itself. I always loved them, but I didn't always like them. I was a freedom wanter from the womb ;) Then one day, I adored them and liked them, quite much.
2) My old cell died, so I had to promptly save any old photos and numbers stored in it. I found a photo of me, Mombie (mom) and Dad, pixelated and tiny, from my birthday (I didn't even know of this photo). It would have been my favorite family photo, sans the pixelation and the faces my parents were making. It looked like they had been fed pure lemon juice soup, hence the hearted faces :)
(ps: I wore bangs my whole life, until I was 26 or 28ish, so to see myself with no bangs is always odd)
3) We (you and me) ARE having a virtual halloween party again this year (if you want to, that is). I promise. Links to previously held parties are in the left hand sidebar.