Easy as Pumpkin Pie?

Moosewood has a recipe called “No Fault Pumpkin Pie” which of course sounded like passive aggressive condescension to me. The book was challenging me.

“Can you infinitely mess this up? Probably.”

Desserts have been the main things I’ve struggled with since starting this project, which is kinda sad since desserts are my favorite. But I am not one to be deterred easily!

            Struggle number one is best explained through the photo below. So, yeah.

            Struggle number two is PIE CRUST. UGHHHHHHHHHHHH. Seriously, pie crust is the worst. It should not be as frustrating as it is. And there’s a distinct possibility that it’s my fault and I have a block in my brain when it comes to pie crust. But mine would not mix well and was poorly rolled out. I have a feeling it’s just going to fall apart. But the whole thing was not a total disaster.

Struggle #2.5= not owning a rolling pin so
using your molasses bottle instead. 

            Victory number one was the abundance of adorable jars you get to use! Ground ginger was kinda hard to find, but luckily Target had like four kinds to choose from and this cute little one was the cheapest. Also, generic molasses apparently doesn’t exist so I bought this (left) super cool brand. 

       



 Victory number two: Moosewood requires you to use “evaporated” milk for the pie filling. I assumed this was the same as “condensed” milk, but I made sure the can I bought said evaporated. After looking it up on the Internet, I discovered they’re actually completely different. Condensed milk usually has sugar added to it, whereas evaporated milk doesn’t.

            Victory number three: the pie was delicious!! It was less of a pie than an assembly of crust and filling that falls apart as soon as you cut into it. You also have to eat half of it with a spoon because it’s soupy and the other half with your hands because it’s too hard to cut into with a spoon.  

            So I would say that Moosewood is probably not a liar by calling it “No Fault Pumpkin Pie” and even with my many struggles, I still had more victories!