Anyone remember when the pumpkin shortage was announced back in the Fall of 2010?? Well, I, for one, was not going to be short on pumpkin come Thanksgiving time. I stocked up when I found the cans of orange goodness in a local store. Then we got our adoption referral and left for Colombia the day before Thanksgiving. You guessed it, I didn’t cook anything with pumpkin last Fall. When Christmas rolled around, we had been home from Colombia with our new daughter for three days…. and cooking anything was not on my list. I was in survival mode.
Fast-forward three-and-a-half months to this week, and envision me standing in front of my pantry staring at cans and cans of pumpkin. It was raining, even hailing, outside… yes, we still live in Phoenix! Pumpkin cooking time had arrived and I was ready to fully embrace it. I searched through the cupboards and took inventory. Next, I went to www.supercook.com and typed in the ingredients from my pantry. They ALWAYS can come up with a recipe for you no matter how strange your items are! Amazing! Well, I didn’t have any cooking oil, so that severely limited my pumpkin choices, but one did catch my eye…. Pumpkin Pie Pudding. Sounded divine. I was salivating thinking that in an hour or so, I could be savoring a yummy pumpkin dessert.
Not so. As it turns out, the recipe I found was yummy, and easy, and quick to prepare…. but it was a slow-cooker recipe. SEVEN to EIGHT long hours in the crock pot were required before I could partake of non-shortage pumpkin goodness. I prepared it anyway… and 10:00 at last night.
When my husband’s alarm went off this morning at 5:00, I asked him if he could turn off the crock pot. He replied in the affirmative…. but failed miserably to act on his promise once he arrived downstairs. When I strolled into the kitchen at 8:15…. yes, it was too late to resuscitate the supposed-to-be-orange-now-dark-brown dessert. Pumpkin Pie Pudding had morphed into Dark Pumpkin Brick from the HOT place. Sadly, I got a spoon from the utensil drawer to investigate the darkness inside the pot. To my surprise, it actually was yummy pumpkin pie pudding, encased in a thick skin. I scraped off the top layer and removed the savory remains to a separate dish. YEAH!
All was not lost. PPP was a wonderful, cold weather treat today!
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