Our Thanksgiving kind of sucked this year, again. It's the second year that Dave and I were alone for Thanksgiving, but I have to say the improvement was the food! Last year we got Boston Market and it was soooo gross by the time we got there, everything was picked over and had been sitting out for awhile. This year we needed a new option. And no, cooking a traditional dinner wasn't really working for us because it's just the two of us and it's not worth the hassle. So we decided to go for Chinese takeout! Seemed like a good idea, but the problem with that being that no Chinese restaurants that we called were open on Thanksgiving day (which was weird.... I thought they were open for all holidays??). So we had to go get our food Wednesday night, and then heat up the food on Thursday for our dinner. :) Um, yeah!! Leftover Chinese takeout for Thanksgiving. Don't hate.
One traditional thing I did do was make a nice pumpkin pie. I think the Libby pumpkin pie recipe is absolutely perfect and it comes out great every time. I used One Pie pumpkin instead, couldn't find Libby at the time I was there. I never bought it in the past because the label is so old looking that it literally looks like it's been sitting there on the shelf since the 60s. But I guess a little vintage never hurt anybody. :)
I prefer the refrigerated pie crusts that you unroll into the pan instead of the frozen ones..... they're always beat to hell by the time you get them home from the store.
Here it is before it went into the oven:
And when it came out:
My husband would be so jealous! He's not a turkey person but chinese? He could eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! :)
Posted by: Sierra | November 30, 2009 at 04:59 PM
that pie shot is gorgeous and I love the vintage photo edges! As I was reading your post, I saw the pic of the pie filling and thought to myself, geez, they haven't ever changed the label design on the can...and then you proceed to comment on that! hah, great minds think alike!
Posted by: Candy | November 27, 2009 at 05:31 PM
I love pumpkin pie. And Chinese is ALWAYS welcome in my book. :)
Posted by: deb | November 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM
YOM
Posted by: mom | November 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Shougun was open!
Posted by: Kristi | November 27, 2009 at 09:35 AM
I had Indian food today, and it was delicious, so I cannot hate on your Chinese food. Now I feel the need for pie...
Posted by: jenny | November 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM
this is totally what we should have done and what i'll probably do for christmas dinner! love it!
Posted by: Aura | November 26, 2009 at 09:11 PM
Your pie look gorgeous.
Posted by: MIL | November 26, 2009 at 09:06 PM