Recipe Set 15. Princess Aleesa's Pumpkin Pie & Blue Birds Of Love Birdseed Rolls

Happy Holiday Season, friends!  We're finally in it!  Just wait to see what I've got cookin' for this next month.   It sounds like it's going to be swEEt. ;)

So, I'm sitting here - injured.  I need to stop doing these races.  It seems something happens to me each time.  This time, my foot is messed up.  I sit here alternating cold and hot.. it HURTS.. I hobble to get myself food or just to get up because I hate sitting here doing nothing.  I wish I had someone to take care of me.  Oh sigh.  Or- maybe some really heavy drugs.
Aside from that, let's discuss what I brought for the family Thanksgiving day dinner.   This one was a bit different.. kinda quiet.  But we did have two visitors that we've never had before.. who I think both tried my green bean casserole from Sunday.  ;)
As far as what I made this time.. the pumpkin pie and rolls.. it was mom, myself and my sister.. my mom even told me that my pie rivaled my grandma's.  That's a HUGE compliment. :)

Lets' start with the pie.   Remember Aleesa?   Well there's one last look at her before she

became a delicious pie.  :)

She was alot easier to cut open than Clyde was.  It could be because I pulled Clyde out from the stair step outside, so he was cold.   Aleesa has been in a warm house for a month so that might be what made her a bit easier.. but I cut into her.. and she smelled so lovely.   I split her in two and started baking her skin up so that it would be just the right softness to scoop her her out..

She actually took a very long time to bake.  I only had to bake Clyde for about 45 minutes.  Aleesa took an hour and a half.. but I do believe she was worth every minute of it.  You'll see her picture as a pie, up at the very top of this page.  Half of her still sits in my fridge right now, while the other half is ALMOST finished being devoured (and I think I'm going to have a piece after I finish blogging.. gee it'd be nice not to have to hobble into my kitchen..  NURSE?)
I'd decided pretty much at the last minute that I was going to make this pie, crustless.. so that made it a little more challenging, but I think I did pretty good.  It was yummy, custardy and spicy all at the same time.  The best thing?  I've never been able to make a pumpkin pie w/o tofu before and make it creamy like this.. but this one - COMPLETELY soy free. (Pats myself on the back).   This was an awesome pie.  Maybe it's because Aleesa was loved, and her pie was made with love.  You should be jealous if you didn't get any. MmmMm.

So, on the waiting side, I was also making bread to make into rolls.

These were 'birdseed' rolls.. because I used alot of seed and grain for them.  They turned out absolutely yummy.  I just had another one for dinner tonight.   Left half of them with my mom as well.  If you're patient, these are well worth kneading and letting rise, and kneading and letting rise again.  I had time, working most of the day on Wednesday - to allow these things to go on their own.  I think I started baking (pie and rolls) at 10 am and finished by 2:30.  It was nice to have the oven on during the day. 

Ok, well right now I'm feeling pretty boring so this blog post isn't funny or interesting.  I'm tired, I'm achy, I'm a lil sad.. and I just feel like laying down now.  Hopefully I'll get my spark back for the next post.   Because what I've got coming up next is just about one of the most fun recipes I think I'll ever plan on trying!  :)
I'm off to watch this blockhead on TV.
;)
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I would post a picture of my sister and I at the run yesterday but all I have is a pic of the neiceage's math teacher, a pic of my moms face and a pic of Miranda's face...  and since that's about as talented as my neice got with the camera yesterday - I'll spare you.

Til next week all.  

Enjoy your weekend!


Music Heard While Blogging:
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown"

Current Motivation:
Boredom

Current Craving:
A cuddle and a laugh

A fairy tale ending.. come true! Aka - Princess Aleesa becomes a pie.

How many of us will ever forget the moment the fairy godmother in Cinderella turned Cindy into a princess and her animals into coachmen and her pumpkin into a coach??

NOBODY - I hope!

If you're a Disney obsessed, crazy, maniacal weirdo like I admit I am, you won't anyway.

Well, regardless... what does this have to do with food?    Oh lots!   For the past month you've been hearing me talk about my pumpkin, "Princess Aleesa".   She's a fairytale pumpkin.   She tried to straighten up Clyde, she hung out with a recluse for a while.. and now she's perched atop a table in my house, looking beautiful as ever.  But I know that someday Aleesa will rot.. so I wanted to do something FABULOUS with her, and what, praytel, is more fabulous than a pumpkin pie??  (Especially for Thanksgiving dinner)

--NOTHING! --  unless you want to talk about the 'bluebirds of love -bird seed' rolls I'm making too.    But we'll get to that.

It's going to hurt my heart a bit to cut into Aleesa, but I have had experience with Clyde and I do believe I know what I'm doing.    I'm planning to make a pie-crust from scratch, and mom bought me a beautiful new glass pie plate to place this pie in.  I'm about certain that I'll have plenty of pumpkin left over.. of which I may make another pie with and freeze it.   OR - maybe I'll see how she tastes in pumpkin muffins?   Either way.. my thought is set.   I have everything I need waiting for me; I plan to work on Aleesa tomorrow afternoon (yes, while I'm doing work/work, watching The Bold and The Beautiful, AND doing laundry)  I'm so talented.   I also have to do a sport specific kundalini at some point tomorrow.  My sister and I will be doing the Thanksgiving Day Race - which takes place downtown.  It's a 10k.  We'll need to be on the ball.

So, to add on to the fairy tale theme... what will I be doing while Aleesa is baking into a gorgeous pie?  Making Blue Birds of love - birdseed rolls for our Thanksgiving dinner.   (Yeah you're all - wtheck?)

oh we'll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly!

Remember those lovebirds from Cinderella?  How can you forget?  They perched on her hand, sung with her.. heck, they helped Gus and Jack make a dress for her to wear to the ball (Of which Anastasia and Drizella promptly ripped off of her later).  Regardless, I knew mom would make some sort of white based roll with egg and butter in it for Thanksgiving.. so instead - I'm going to charm the socks off of everyone with my bird-seed rolls.   Millet, sunflower, a few other seedly grains.. will make my rolls sure-fire hits.  I'm certainly excited.

So - lets look at the numbers of all this, shall we?

Regular Pumpkin Pie                                    Princess Aleesa's Pumpkin Pie
Calories - 323                                                     170                                           
Fat - 14.6g                                                           5                                       
Cholesterol -31mg                                                0                                                 
Sodium  -434mg                                                 191                                      
Carbs   - 42g                                                       27                                     
Fiber - 4.2g                                                         1
Protien - 6g                                                         3.7                                                      
WW Pts    7                                                          4

Regular Dinner Rolls                                       Blue-Birds Of Love Birdseed Rolls
Calories - 140                                                                             85
Fat - 2                                                                                          1
Cholesterol - 4                                                                              0
Sodium - 270                                                                              200
Carbs - 27                                                                                    15
Fiber - 3                                                                                        4
Protien - 5                                                                                     7
WW Pts - 2                                                                                    1

Ok then.. I don't have a whole lot of time to get this show on the road.. so let's sing a little song shall we, while we get this ready?  About dreams and wishes coming true?!   I sure have a couple I'd like to have come true soon. 

No matter how your heart is grieving...  if you keep on believing.....

               

 

That's what I look like when I get up in the morning.  ;)

Music enjoyed while writing this blog:  

Subsonic Radio - 96K (DISNEY MUSIC)

Current Motivation - Fairytales

Current Craving - For a dream that I wish, to come true.