Some of the things that made our "Thankful" list this year were:
Freedom and Safety
For Family
4 R Food and warm house
4 our beds
For are friends
Hugs
Daily I am thankful for food. And more specifically pie. I am a total pie person. In fact one of my favorite Deep Thoughts is:
"If you ever get a choice between Pie Heaven and regular Heaven, pick Pie Heaven. It might be a trick but if it's not, hmmmm boy!"
So of course one of my favorite holiday traditions is pie making. For Thanksgiving this year we only made two because it was just our family. But dang they were good pies. We had a traditional apple pie with homemade crust. I could eat it for breakfast. Wait, I did. Twice.
Then on Thanksgiving day Curtis said he would make any pie I wanted. I ordered banana cream. I was just putting it out there- we've never made a successful cream pie and I wasn't expecting it. But Curt said "Done." So I pulled out some recipes and found one for banana cream. But when I told Curtis who gave it to me, he said that maybe we should look online because that person is really into low fat food. I agreed to do a quick search. WOW- was he right on that one.
The first (low fat) recipe called for 1 egg yolk, one T butter and low fat milk.
I found another recipe online with 3 egg yolks, 2 T butter and low fat milk.
I knew we were serious about taste and quality so I figured I needed to see what Martha had to say. Say what you will about Martha Stewart, her food rocks. Her recipe called for 5 yolks, 4 T butter and 2 1/2 cups of WHOLE MILK. We were sold.
Despite being a Martha recipe it really wasn't difficult and the result... well let's just say it was THE best pie I have ever had in my life. Seriously fantastic. So good that I never even got a picture of it because I could never think straight when it was in front of me. SO good. Oh and we even used a store bought crust because I had one on hand and it was still amazing. Check it out here if are in need of banana cream pie this holiday season. You won't be disappointed.
