Dallas Dreams of Pumpkin Pie + Halloween

 In honor of halloween, I decided to try to make a Pumpkin pie.  I will see how it tastes tomorrow (I'm too full to eat it now).  I think the filling part looks pretty good, but I'm unsure about the crust.   I think I keep over cooking the crust.  Recipes always recommend shielding the crust to prevent it from getting too crispy.  I got a pie shield for my birthday, but I think its too big for my pies, and its really hard to manually put foil around your crust halfway through.  Next time i think I'm going to shield the crust the entire cooking time, see if I can get it to be less crispy.  Also, I think I broke a pie rule today, i put some cinnamon and sugar into the crust.  Most pies try to make sure the crust is not sweet at all, but I thought the cinnamon would make it look better and you can't use cinnamon without sugar.  I guess we will see how it tastes tomorrow.  Also, I had some extra dough and extra filling so I made a few mini pies.  I am pretty excited about those as well. 






Aside from the pie, it was halloween today, which meant my children all dressed up, went around town and picked up some candy.  This year they all thee older girls went as black cats.  It was pretty cute and easy to do, great choice. I like when they all just choose the same costume.  Last year they all wanted to be dragons.  I think they had fun this year.  We didn't end up putting the twins in any costumes, we wanted to do mice, but we didn't really have anyone to show them off to, they stayed home with me and guarded our candy bowl while everyone else went trick or treating.  










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