Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie

So With Thanksgiving this year it was my role to bring dessert and the request was pumpkin pie so I decided to try to make it from scratch. A task that I would later come to regret.

The first task was to gut and peel the pumpkin. I'd never peeled a pumpkin before and god willing hopefully I'll never do it again. It was horrible, it was like peeling a turnip with a spoon. It took over and hour just to peel the thing!

Once the pumpkin was peeled the next step was to cut it up into 1 inch cubes.

This part was easier and more fun! I then mixed the fruit with cinnamon, cloves and ginger and baked it for about 45 minutes until it was soft.

The next step was to blend the fruit in my food processor...a fun time as I rarely get to use this wedding gift...creamy goodness! After blended I added an egg, whipping cream and vanilla and mixed it all together and then poured it into my wheat free pie crust and baked it for 45 minutes.

The final result! The pastry was a little thicker than I would have like but the dough was cold and hard to work with so I couldn't get it as thin as i would have liked. The consensus at the table was that it was really good pumpkin pie...way better than store bought!

The truly sad thing was that after all of that hard work I discovered that I really don't like pumpkin pie...