The recipe from the canned Libby’s pumpkin puree, in case you’ve misplaced it.

Traditional Pumpkin Pie

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

Autumn is finally here and with it comes a barrage of pumpkin and pumpkin spice recipes. But that’s not a bad thing, is it?

This week with Sunday Supper we are sharing simple pumpkin recipes. And for me, the simplest is the traditional  pie and perhaps none more traditional  than the recipe on the can of pumpkin puree from Libby’s. I’d been going  through my  Mom’s old recipes that she passed on to me and found one with a very clean albeit very old label. Saved there for posterity perhaps,  or just plain old fashioned good luck and insurance, because that pie is the one that the family wanted each and every year for Thanksgiving,  so it had better be on the dessert table,  or frowns would be all around.

And it’s not so strange, really.  Many families will not dare try a new recipe on a day so sacred. Everything must be perfect. And  yes, this pie is.

It might seem early  to some for Thanksgiving recipes…or not. You  know,  I have already been over at “da-Bucks” for a PSL   (pumpkin spice latte) which I take with half syrup so it won’t be too sweet. Today I noticed  they have come out with Maple Pecan Latte- and Bill and I were going to stop in  and grab one but it slipped our minds. We saw it while out shopping for a new whole house router (OMG they are SO expensive!) since our wifi has been harder to find than an honest politician in Washington. But now,  a few hundred bucks lighter, we are  many more MBps heavier, and the Lau’s are smiling away online. But I digress.

Back to Thanksgiving- and  can it possibly be that it is almost October? And it always shocks me that on the day of Waynesville’s Ohio Sauerkraut Festival (it’s epic, believe me) that my friends to the north (Canada) are celebrating Thanksgiving.

But apparently, early on, ours came much earlier too, but it was changed for some reason (shopping?) or other incoherent nonsense.

I am in fact NO WAY ready to plan my own Thanksgiving feast, although there is a 50:50 chance this pie will be on it (as it was last year). Lucky for me, my family trusts me implicitly with whatever I dream up to create and cook. And while I didn’t exactly create this one, it is one of the few I will readily make that is not my own.

I  am obsessed with making my own recipes, you know. You, dear reader,  will have to tell me if that’s a good thing, although I think by now everyone knows. I never really started out with an obsession to cook. In fact, I really just loved to  eat. And you know, if you can’t find someone to cook good for you, you really have to do it yourself. Isn’t that the way with all things?

Join me later this week for fun with Apple Week and also Muffin Monday is back again. It’s nonstop recipes back to back, and I hope you join me each and every day.

~Sue

Simple Pumpkin Recipes #SundaySupper

Meals, Sides, and Snacks

• Autumn Harvest Pumpkin Soup by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Chocolate Pumpkin Chia Pudding by Cricket’s Confections
• Chocolate Pumpkin Pastry Twists by Caroline’s Cooking
• Cream Cheese Filled Pumpkin Bread by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Miso Broth with Roast Pumpkin and Noodles by Sprinkles and Sprouts
• Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Walnut Streusel by Baking Sense
• Pumpkin Kugel by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Pumpkin Monkey Bread Muffins by Jersey Girl Cooks
• Pumpkin Mug Muffin by Our Good Life
• Pumpkin Oatmeal Cups by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Pumpkin Shrub by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Rolls by Fantastical Sharing of Recipes
• Roasted Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup by Food Lust People Love
• Savory Pumpkin with Red Onion Garlic and Coconut by Sue’s Nutrition Buzz

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