I had a request for my mom's Pumpkin Pie recipe, so here it is:
PUMPKIN PIE
Beat together in large bowl:
3 cups pumpkin (large can)
2 cups brown sugar
5 eggs
2 cups evaporated milk
1 tsp. salt
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
Pour in 2 pie shells. (9 inch)
Bake in a 425 degree oven for 15 minutes, then turn heat down to 325 degrees.
Continue baking until set, about 35 - 40 minutes.
Check for doneness my inserting knife just off center. If it comes out clean, the pie is done.
You can use frozen pie crusts. Or, we prefer our own:
PIE CRUST
Stir together:
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
Cut in:
3/4 cup shortening (we use the butter flavor shortening)
Sprinkle with:
5 - 6 Tbsp. cold water, adding 1 Tbsp. at a time
Stir the water in with a fork, until the dough sticks together enough to be rolled out.
Roll out dough on a floured surface, put in two 9 inch pie plates.
After the pie is baked, cool on wire racks. Then keep in fridge. The pie is much better cold!
Enjoy!
(I do!)
Friday, November 29, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Lobster trap
Do you know what this is? It's a lobster trap that we picked up at an auction.
Not real common in landlocked WV.
A little boy in the shop one day called it a "bad people trap".
Ha!
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Snowman dishes
I picked these dishes up at a thrift store last summer, and tucked them away in my stash for future projects. The future is now so to speak! It's that time of year when anything & everything becomes a base for a snowman. A little paint. A little time. A whole new look.
I'm not sure what the dishes would have been used for originally. Baking? Serving?
I've been watch some cooking shows while I paint.
Shows like Chopped.
And Restaurant Impossible.
And Cutthroat Kitchen.
And the more I watch these shows, the more I realize how little I know about cooking!
I consider myself a pretty good cook.
Cook. Not chef.
Ahhh. Maybe that's the difference.
Let's just say I don't think I'll be competing on any of these shows anytime soon.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
When Life Gives You Lemons...
Did you ever learn a new word or phrase, & then it seems like you hear it ALL the time?
That's the way I feel about this phrase. I don't remember hearing it, until I started carrying it in the shop. Now I not only hear it all the time, I also say it all the time!
I suppose it was always there, I just didn't notice it.
We're dealing with some big situations in our lives right now that are out of our control.
We live in the heart of the Marcellus Shale gas & oil drilling. We feel like we've been plucked out of our nice, quiet, peaceful countryside, and thrown down into the middle of an industrial zone.
That was bad enough.
We found out a few days ago that the plant George works in is shutting down at the end of this year.
Well.
It is what it is.
And we don't like it.
Not one little bit.
But, we're trying hard to find the bright side.
We are debt free.
We have a safety net.
We have a can do attitude.
We have each other.
And... we have a God who we have a deep faith in.
Things have a funny way of working out, and we believe they will this time too.
We plan to bring lots of new things into the shop. We need it to go from being a little extra money to a lot of extra money!
Another old saying applies here....
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