Pumpkin Picks

[FeuerFrei]

This fall we are inundated with a veritable cornucopia of pumpkin-laced food. You've probably discovered some delicious enough to buy again. Let's hear some personal recommendations for winning pumpkin-flavored food you've sampled. (Whether you actually tasted pumpkin, or not.)


So far I'm recommending:

• Pumpkin Spice Oreos™
  
• Baskin Robbins' Pumpkin Cheesecake ice cream

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Beer. Damn fine stuff. There are a number of pumpkin beers on the market that I'll need to try in the coming weeks, but this stuff is widely available, relatively cheap and good.

Apart from booze, I'm ready for the pumpkin spice everything trend to die.

 

[lxskllr]

Maine Root pumpkin pie soda

 

[EliteRetard]

Costco has always done a good job on pumpkin pies for cheap. Just had the chance to try another one this year at a family event...still darn good.

I have had a better pumpkin pie, home grown and home made (yes, real pumpkin pie from real garden grown pumpkins). However, the labor and costs involved are huge for the relatively small improvement.

 

[Xstatic1]

Love this flavor!

 

[Xstatic1]

This fall we are inundated with a veritable cornucopia of pumpkin-laced food. You've probably discovered some delicious enough to buy again. Let's hear some personal recommendations for winning pumpkin-flavored food you've sampled. (Whether you actually tasted pumpkin, or not.)


So far I'm recommending:

• Pumpkin Spice Oreos™
  
• Baskin Robbins' Pumpkin Cheesecake ice cream

Gonna try this... maybe this week! :biggrin:

Costco has always done a good job on pumpkin pies for cheap. Just had the chance to try another one this year at a family event...still darn good.

I have had a better pumpkin pie, home grown and home made (yes, real pumpkin pie from real garden grown pumpkins). However, the labor and costs involved are huge for the relatively small improvement.

Are you talking about the smaller pumpkins called "cooking pumpkins"? For my pumpkin pie, there's a huge difference in taste between pureed cooking pumpkin thumbsup and canned pumpkin thumbsdown. I only use cooking pumpkins for pumpkin pie; for all my other recipes, I use canned.

 

[Rakehellion]

D:

 

[EliteRetard]

Are you talking about the smaller pumpkins called "cooking pumpkins"? For my pumpkin pie, there's a huge difference in taste between pureed cooking pumpkin thumbsup and canned pumpkin thumbsdown. I only use cooking pumpkins for pumpkin pie; for all my other recipes, I use canned.

I dunno, aint no pumpkin expert (my sister is the expert cook)...but yes canned usually has a very different taste (and texture). Some canned stuff (and many manufactured pies) also have a weird waxy and/or metallic strangeness to them. I wouldn't put Costco pumpkin pie in the canned category, it has a good taste and texture. Considering it's mass produced and can't be tailored to individual preferences it's probably the best you can get. Being impartial I'd probably give it a 7/10 (personally it suits my tastes enough to bump it up to a 7.5 or 8).

Even if my sister takes the time and effort to grow and prep her own pie from scratch I can't give it a 10, not unless she lets me tweak it before pouring and baking it. And being natural, sometimes it just comes out poorly. So far in the past ~15 years I have always been pleased with a Costco pumpkin pie. I think making it in large batches with high quality ingredients evens it out and makes for a consistently good product.

 

[blackangst1]

 

[EliteRetard]

The fact that you use all of those products together makes it a little disturbing.

 

[BoomerD]

My wife is a fabulous baker...she used to be a professional baker. Every year at Thanksgiving, I'll choke down a couple of pieces of pumpkin pie...but I've NEVER liked the stuff. I prefer fruit pies or even cream pies to pumpkin...so...every year at Thanksgiving, she makes me at least one apple pie (my hands-down favorite) and usually one other pie. I think this year, it will be blueberry, made with blueberries from our garden that I picked and froze.

Otherwise, you can have your pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice whatever...in fact, you can have mine.

 

[CraKaJaX]

My wife is a fabulous baker...she used to be a professional baker. Every year at Thanksgiving, I'll choke down a couple of pieces of pumpkin pie...but I've NEVER liked the stuff. I prefer fruit pies or even cream pies to pumpkin...so...every year at Thanksgiving, she makes me at least one apple pie (my hands-down favorite) and usually one other pie. I think this year, it will be blueberry, made with blueberries from our garden that I picked and froze.

Otherwise, you can have your pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice whatever...in fact, you can have mine.

:hmm:

 

[RearAdmiral]

I had to pickup some pumpkin spice mini wheats. They were pretty good actually!

Last year I made pumpkin pie with Georgia Candy Roaster pumpkins and Blue Hubbards I believe. Miles above normal homemade pumpkin pie.

 

[DrPizza]

I've got a dozen or so cooking pumpkins sitting in the garden, waiting to be turned into something delicious. I've never done a pumpkin pie with other than the canned crap; looking forward to this.

 

[CPA]

Can someone please explain to me why canned pumpkin is bad, especially when the only ingredient is pumpkin!

 

[Drako]

Can someone please explain to me why canned pumpkin is bad, especially when the only ingredient is pumpkin!

It's not. In fact Libby's canned makes a better pie than any fresh pumpkin that I've had. Of course they have their own special "pumpkin".

 

[MongGrel]

My wife is a fabulous baker...she used to be a professional baker. Every year at Thanksgiving, I'll choke down a couple of pieces of pumpkin pie...but I've NEVER liked the stuff. I prefer fruit pies or even cream pies to pumpkin...so...every year at Thanksgiving, she makes me at least one apple pie (my hands-down favorite) and usually one other pie. I think this year, it will be blueberry, made with blueberries from our garden that I picked and froze.

Otherwise, you can have your pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice whatever...in fact, you can have mine.

Baking is one of the things my wife is best at, even then she still uses Libby's canned for Pumpkin though I think.

I love Berry's, I think one of my favorite was the Black Raspberry Cobbler my step mom used to make, and yeah Blueberries, still have some jam a friend made us awhile back.

Fresh Apple Pie I'd put at 3 myself, with a dab of homemade is cream with fresh milk on it, but is a thing of the past really here.

Pumpkin pie would probably be way down the list honestly, even if homemade. But is good with whipped cream and a traditional type of thing, goes well with turkey.

I've always thought of it as more a thanksgiving thing than Halloween, but I suppose it is running up to that.