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Responding to Competition, Starbucks Lowering Some Drink Prices
Iced coffee is brewed stronger, fwiw.
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
I haven't had a McDonalds burger in a really long time. I prefer BK for my fast food fix. The McD fries really are good, though, as long as you eat them while they're hot.
Cook the Book: Mascarpone-Stuffed French Toast
I've seen this on tv, made with ricotta, but mascarpone sounds a lot better. Yum.
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Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
My husband is French Canadian, so around this time every year I make Tarte au Sucre, or Sugar Pie. It's made with butter, evaporated milk, and brown sugar, and it's delicious warm with vanilla ice cream. Unlike just about everyone else on this thread, I really do like pumpkin pie, but sugar pie is a nice alternative that's really easy to make.
Responding to Competition, Starbucks Lowering Some Drink Prices
Iced coffee is brewed stronger, fwiw.
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
I haven't had a McDonalds burger in a really long time. I prefer BK for my fast food fix. The McD fries really are good, though, as long as you eat them while they're hot.
Cook the Book: Mascarpone-Stuffed French Toast
I've seen this on tv, made with ricotta, but mascarpone sounds a lot better. Yum.
'This Is Why You're Fat'
It's just silly. I clicked through the first 3 pages, and everything I saw except for the Chicago deep-dish pizza is a novelty. Nobody eats deep fried twinkies dipped in hot fudge on a regular basis (unless you make them for a living, possibly). You don't get fat because you once ate a Baskin Robbins oreo shake, all 2600 calories of it, or because you once tried a taco made out of bacon. The problem is a lot more about "normal" food that has more calories that you realize, or getting too many empty calories from things like regular sodas and alcohol.
Blogwatch: Tofu Stir-Fry with Spinach and Okra
This looks similar to something I've had a Malaysian restaurant. It had okra and tofu, with Thai-like flavors (although not Thai-like heat). Good food is good food, I guess.
Serious Grape: Sweet Wines for Your Sweetie
I've got a real fondness for Inniskillin ice wine. I can often find it at Costco for around $40 for the 375ml bottle, and it makes a treat to end any meal.
But I wouldn't mind trying any of these either. Thanks.
An Ode to Whipped Cream at Café Borrone in Menlo Park, California
We went for lunch today. We stood in line for maybe 15 minutes before ordering, and waited another 15 minutes to get our food. I had a frosted mocha and the pastrami melt, he had the hot italian sausage melt. Good stuff! Then we walked down to Penzeys and bought more good stuff. It was a nice day, thanks for giving me an idea for something new.
An Ode to Whipped Cream at Café Borrone in Menlo Park, California
One of my New Years resolutions is to try new things, and this sounds perfect. I plan to go by for lunch this weekend, I love pastrami and I love whipped cream!
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy - I love pumpkin pie and have been making it for 70 odd years - when my son and daughter were young, they would devour it - this year for the first time, we ordered a pumpkin tart from a wonderful French bakery in Cary, NC, after sharing a slice Sunday afternoon with a latte - really scrumptious -
And while I'm here, I want to wish one and all a wonderful Thanksgiving - may everything you eat bring you pleasure.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
How about cheesecake? Everyone loves it, and there are 500 ways to make it. I made a strawberry cheesecake yesterday for Hunter's Thanksgiving, and it's all gone.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
@johnfred...I agree Costco pumpkin pie is a great one! $5.99!!
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Also not a fan of pumpkin pie; everyone in my immediate family finds it equally loathesome. I am making fruit pies, and found this interesting varistion on apple pie: http://www.oneforthetable.com/oftt/pies/pomegranate-apple-pie-2.html. I quite like the idea of the tartness of pomegranate to counterbalance the sweetness of the apples and the blandness of the crust.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
If you want a large delicious pumpkin pie go to Costco. Theirs is fabulous and cheap. Never a shortage. I am not a big fan of pumpkin pie but the Costco version is great. This seems like an especially good suggestion for the people who can't stand pumpkin pie but make it for others.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
This article is pretty much completely useless.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Don't forget the citrus! We have big lemon fans in my family and it's really nice after a big meal. I'm making my own meyer lemon curd this year *fingers crossed*.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
I've never been a fan of pumpkin pie, so any other alternative is a welcome treat! In my family I'd have to say Banana Cream Pie is the favorite of most of those who aren't on a diet!
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Even canned pumpkin is not always pure pumpkin. Sometimes there's other varieties of squash in it. Just substitute your favorite squash. Delicata makes really good pie.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
this pear pie is another good option (if I do say so myself)
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
What? You mean you guys don't grow your own winter squash? :-)
(Actually, I didn't get a crop this year either. Drought.)
Isn't canned pumpkin actually cushaw squash? I think I heard that somewhere. The only difference between a "pumpkin" and a "squash" is cosmetic, anyway.
Sweet potatoes seem plentiful, and sweet potato pie seems more forgiving than pumpkin pie. They're a lot easier to peel, for starters. If you really must have a custard pie made with an orange vegetable, it seems sweet potato would be the way to go. Butternut squash is probably a runner up. Much higher flesh to seed ratio than pumpkins.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
There are other brands of canned pumpkin out there too! It's silly to think that Libby's is the one and only brand to buy. We have a regional canned pumpkin here and it is cheaper and better than Libby's. No shortage where I am either. Also, one of our grocery stores sells their own generic brand of pumpkin. Don't feel like you need to buy name brand food just because it is the most popular or most advertised (like on SE).
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
That should have read "I was able to buy canned squash as usual"
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
My "pumpkin" pies have always been squash pies. Very similar flavor, but more delicate. I was able to buy canned pumpkin as usual, but I got it back when the shortage was first noted. Hubbard squash will make a great pie if you want to use fresh.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Hrm, I've had no problem finding canned pumpkin, either (Southern California). I read about the shortage and saw that my local market was out one week (thus confirming the story to me), so the next time I saw some I stocked up. However, ever since then (it's been a couple of weeks now) the market hasn't run out. Either no one's buying it, or SoCal is hoarding the nation's canned pumpkin.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie, but isn't this Serious Eats? Shouldn't this article be about how to transmogrify a real honest-to-goodness pumpkin into a gourmet pie?
Oh, and also, since Canadian Thanksgiving is long past, and I've got like four cans of the stuff in the pantry that I won't need till next year. I'll ship it to whoever makes the best offer :)
Actually, it's pumpkin puree. But it's only about four common ingredients away from being pumpkin pie filling.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Well, I love pumpkin pie, and I don't just eat it at Thanksgiving - I enjoy it all year long. But if pumpkin wasn't available - well, sweet potato pie tastes just as good, and you don't even need canned anything to make it.
And pumpkin or sweet potato pie at least have some nutritive value - not a lot, but there's some fibre and beta carotene hidden inside, as well as a whack of Vitamin A. Tarte au sucre? I'm Canadian, so it seems unpatriotic to say so, but you may as well mainline the sugar into your blood. Same thing with most pecan/shoofly/etc. pies - all sugar, no nutrition.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
I, too hate pumpkin pie. Or at least the "traditional" slippery, overly spiced canned pumpkin pie with the wet crust. But give me a sweet potato pie and I'm all over it. And fresh pumpkins don't do much for me, either. The smell of the innards makes me gag. Don't tell my family but the pumpkin pies they've loved for so many years have actually been sweet potato pies (evil grin).
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
Sorry to be the lone hater, but I hate pumpkin pie, this is a great excuse to make a double pecan pie instead!
Just follow the recipe on the dark Kayo, and double the amount of Pecans (use good ones, Sunnyland will ship you some). The extra pecans balance out the super sweet caramel custard filling.
If you are too lazy to make a crust, buy the Pillsbury Just Unroll, which Cook's Illustrated rates #1 in premade. It's bland, but not offensively bad.
Pumpkin Pie Alternatives for Thanksgiving
i've had no problem finding pumpkin in manhattan...i feel like i should start conserving some for use later in the winter!
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
I will only eat the filet o fish, the burgers are nasty.
Responding to Competition, Starbucks Lowering Some Drink Prices
It's my daily indulgence to myself. They'll never lower my latte price...it's been a solid $4.45 for two years now. I'm aware it's overpriced and blah blah blah. But I like it, and it's my money. I I bet if they lowered prices here, in my college town, they'd get more business than they already do. The one I live above is always PACKED,
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
The symbol of the American dream, and the icon for the nightmare of the planet. Mc Donalds is also a symbol of our unnecessary need for beef consumption which is slowly poisoning the planet and destroying our rain forests. Methane gases from cows destroy the ozone layer as much as fossil fuels, pesticides from corn (to feed the cattle) leak into our waterways and poisons our oceans and rain forests are being destroyed in order to grow corn to feed the cows...
....all so we can eat crap called the "Big Mac". Thanks America! We love you for showing us how we can accomplish our dreams.
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
The unappetizing photo's of a modern-day 's Big Mac, posted above, which looked like it was sitting on the counter for a couple of days with it's grayish-colored meat and insipid bun, is a far cry from what "shipwreck" described in his post. I worked the grill in McDonald's when I was in high school in the mid-1970's and can affirm his well-written description of the burger-making process back in those days.
McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review
lol, that's hilarious. You had me going there. All the same, now I've got the craving. Maybe that's what we'll have for dinner. Homemade, of course, though.
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My husband is French Canadian, so around this time every year I make Tarte au Sucre, or Sugar Pie. It's made with butter, evaporated milk, and brown sugar, and it's delicious warm with vanilla ice cream. Unlike just about everyone else on this thread, I really do like pumpkin pie, but sugar pie is a nice alternative that's really easy to make.