Pumpkin to Pie!!

Saturday i attempted to turn this into a pie.

I began by carving the top off, just like a jack-o-lantern. Then i spooned out the seeds and stringy stuff.

Then you chop it up! Just into 3'' wide strips, then you place those strips on a baking sheet, and put them in the oven at 400 degrees for about an hour. Till the pumpkin gets soft and mushy. An hour is kinda long; i'm sure all the nutrients were baked out, but oh well.

This was after i took them out of the oven. They smelt and looked like a squash.

This part was fun! You scrape off the soft part from the pumpkin and then blend it; it pretty much looked like baby food. I told brett i'm going to make blended pumpkin for our future babies :)
The next part was where i had to make a quick and altering choice! The recipe called for evaporated milk, which i thought we had. Turns out we had sweetened condensed milk. I threw it in anyway, and hoped it would be fine. Also- we had no nutmeg, so i added cinnamon along with ground ginger. Then a couple eggs were added, then blended and i poured it into the homemade crust! ( I'm not mentioning much about the homemade crust because it was NOT that good, crust making is a mystery to me)

Popped it into he oven and it came out with a big bubble in the middle. After i poked a fork in it- this is what it looked like! (It pretty much LOOKS homemade, not very pretty!) haha
It looked ok, but did it taste good? We had to test!

Brett and I really like it. It tastes pumpkiny, but yet a little different then the store bought stuff.

Kaley was not a HUGE fan.
I wasn't crushed though. I know that Kaley is a little, hmmm, how do i say this; highly selective in her eating? haha. I'm just kidding Kays. You really do eat anything i make, which i appreciate.
We force Kaley to try things sometimes. Brett made her try eggnog the other day, she thought it wasn't bad!
We love having Kaley up here with us. It's fun having family come over and doing things with her on the weekends. It's fun that Kaley and I have a class together too. We "Study" together. (Consists of us reading over the study page a few times, in between telling jokes and laughing, then we read over our stuff one more time, then go take the test- it's a highly effective studying method)