HA! That is cute. I notice none of the dishes get dirty...wish I coudl make a pie like that. Thanks CH.

Mmmmm loved it CH. Thanks.

Ha Kappa - no dirty dishes - yes!

What???? Pumpkin in pies? Carrot cake is about as far as I'll go.

Memo to crazyheart,

The roofer agrees with me - he says if you want him back you've got to promise no more pumpkin pies.

Pumpkin is a vegetable, as such it is best roasted in a baking dish with potatoes, kumera, carrot and onion. Then served with lamb, which has been basted with rosemary, garlic and lemon. Steam some peas to provide greens. Serve with mint sauce and gravy.

This is a traditional Oz Sunday dinner - served in a valiant attempt to stop family arguments. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.................

Oh but PP - pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, whipped cream. Vegetable =-NOT

Crazyheart - I should have known that I could rely on you.  You are a true friend.  I spent an hour this morning making pumpkin pies - I should have checked first to see how easy it could be - and no dirty dishes.

Actually I think I could enjoy Pilgrims dinner as well.  Pilgrim, could you send some to me for next week, when I've had enough turkey and pumpkin pie to last me until the next big feast - Christmas.

Thanks bunches, CH, you really are the <3 of the Cafe.

Just a Self-writing poem,

Inannawhimsey

:D  but wait...was that a guava pie? lol

As-salaamu alaikum

-Omni

seeler,

What?? You want pumpkin for one course, followed by pumpkin for dessert?

Do you celebrate Halloween like Americans? If so, hide under the bed - you must be at least 70% pumpkin yourself by now.

My kumeras were too big (the picture I mean).  I tried to post a pic of kumeras since I had to google and see was PP meant.

They're called sweet potatoes or yams here. 

Ninja,

I believe you can get kumera reduction surgery now - you're in luck!

BTW, kumera's are not yams. Yams are white - we call them sweet potatoes. Kumeras are similar to yams, being tubers. They are orange in colour when cooked, and they make the BEST roasted vegetable and soups.

OK.  They're sweet potatoes here.  Being orange was the clue.  Yams here are more yellow with redder skins.

Love sweet potatoes (just baked and mashed with butter, s&p).  In the southern US, they make sweet potato pie, which is similar to pumpkin pie.

Pilgrim - I'm planning my turkey dinner for this Sunday.  Turkey with stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, squash, cauliflower, corn nibblets (my granddaughter's request), white wine, pumpkin with whipped cream and/or apple pie and icecream, tea.  Company coming to help Mr. Seeler and I eat it and I will send some of the leftovers home with my daughter. 

The next Sunday I expect to dine on your specialties.  Don't let me down.

Btw - those vegies in the above picture look an awful lot like the things I buy and cook as Yams.  They are deep orange on the inside.  And they are served as a vegetable for the main course.  I've also heard them called Sweet Potatoes.

right...we also call them yams & sweet potatoes here...and are orange..and are my favourite list....(i also like sweet potato fries).

I wonder if the white things are parsnips?

Kumera chips are great. (we follow the English here- and say "chips" not fries.)

I'm thinking it would be a lot easier if all English speaking countries used the same words. When I was a child, we didn't have kumeras, and served sweet potatoes (the white ones instead).

Parsnips are white, but they're a different vegetable again.

memo to seeler, I'm the world's worse cook - You'd be better off cooking it yourself!

hmm..need to see what white sweet potatoes are.

can you post a picture, Pilgrims progress?

Are these what you mean PP?

Thank you so much, that is so sweet.

(What, that's all the whipped creme available? Yeesh!)

CH - LOL

 I looked at her Thanksgiving videos and missed the pumpkin Pie one!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too - and yes we have sooo much to be thankful for!

Nope. Maybe you call them yams? I know we used to get them from Fiji.

They also make good pies