Is It All Gone Yet ?
Thanksgiving is a truly wonderful time of year. The change in the weather. The feel of harvest. The time for family. It couldn't be better. But who could possibly have come up with the idea to haul out the guts of a pumpkin, cook it up and pass it off as a dessert ?
Pumpkin pie is just all wrong.
I've tried. Believe me, I've tried. Homemade, store bought, fresh, frozen, extra nutmeg, no nutmeg, chunky, smooth and crustless. None of them help me to understand the appeal of pumpkin pie.
You see, our world is about balance. That's why dessert works in the first place. You end of a meal full of protein and sodium with sugars and carbohydrates. It's the yin and the yang.
But pumpkin pie cannot be used that way. It's more meal than magic. It's more mushy than mouthwatering.
It comes from a time when you were not to waste anything. You used it all because there was no grocery store to run to when it all ran out.
But we don't have to live that way anymore.
We have green bins and composters that would be only too happy to absorb the inside of the hollowed out innards of an orange gourd.
Think about it. Is there any specific reason as to why pumpkin pie is served only once or twice a year when chocolate cake and ice cream are available any time you need them ?
Pumpkin pie is something that we have been led to believe is a staple at Thanksgiving and maybe again at Christmas. But we don't have to do that to ourselves anymore.
Stand tall. Be strong. Leave pumpkin pie where it should have been placed long ago.
Outside with all of the other food scraps.
Pumpkin pie is just all wrong.
I've tried. Believe me, I've tried. Homemade, store bought, fresh, frozen, extra nutmeg, no nutmeg, chunky, smooth and crustless. None of them help me to understand the appeal of pumpkin pie.
You see, our world is about balance. That's why dessert works in the first place. You end of a meal full of protein and sodium with sugars and carbohydrates. It's the yin and the yang.
But pumpkin pie cannot be used that way. It's more meal than magic. It's more mushy than mouthwatering.
It comes from a time when you were not to waste anything. You used it all because there was no grocery store to run to when it all ran out.
But we don't have to live that way anymore.
We have green bins and composters that would be only too happy to absorb the inside of the hollowed out innards of an orange gourd.
Think about it. Is there any specific reason as to why pumpkin pie is served only once or twice a year when chocolate cake and ice cream are available any time you need them ?
Pumpkin pie is something that we have been led to believe is a staple at Thanksgiving and maybe again at Christmas. But we don't have to do that to ourselves anymore.
Stand tall. Be strong. Leave pumpkin pie where it should have been placed long ago.
Outside with all of the other food scraps.
