{"id":1124,"date":"2010-11-21T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2010-11-21T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:25:14","slug":"pumpkin-pie-im-a-bit-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Pie: I’m a bit screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thanksgiving is coming, and so here in Switzerland I felt like making a pumpkin pie today.\u00a0 Yes, it’s not actually<\/em> Thanksgiving, but I could either celebrate it before or after, so I’m doing both<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here’s the thing about pumpkin pie: because it really is an American dish, some of the ingredients are really<\/strong> American.\u00a0 My favorite recipe is Libby’s<\/a>, but my wife and daughter both were not thrilled. But it also has two other problems, one of which is difficult to avoid.\u00a0 Libby’s calls for condensed milk and canned pumpkin.\u00a0 There is absolutely nothing<\/strong> to be done about the canned pumpkin part.\u00a0 Anyone who knows anything knows that you just get a can of pumpkin for pumpkin pie, because quite frankly, we all have better things to do than to chop, bake, skin and mash a pumpkin, and probably the wrong pumpkin at that.\u00a0 The catch is that here in Switzerland, apparently they don’t, or they simply don’t eat pumpkin.<\/p>\n

So that leaves the condensed milk.\u00a0 Some recipes call for it, and some call for cream cheese. This year I tried a recipe from the Joy of Baking<\/a>, which merely calls for cream.\u00a0 It makes a very light pie, but the spice doesn’t bowl you over.\u00a0 Quite frankly I found it a bit meek.\u00a0 But this is precisely what, I think my wife and daughter liked.\u00a0 Also, this pie isn’t too sweet, which is something I like.\u00a0 This is a Martha Stewart recipe.\u00a0 Are they all so middle-of-the-road?<\/p>\n

Anyway, Happy (early) Thanksgiving, America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is coming, and so here in Switzerland I felt like making a pumpkin pie today.\u00a0 Yes, it’s not actually Thanksgiving, but I could either celebrate it before or after, so I’m doing both.\u00a0 Here’s the thing about pumpkin pie: because it really is an American dish, some of the ingredients are really American.\u00a0 My … Continue reading “Pumpkin Pie: I’m a bit screwed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,235],"tags":[379,377,378],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expat-fun","category-recipe","tag-martha-stewart","tag-pumpkin-pie","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}