Saturday, November 22, 2008

How to make Pumpkin Pie

I had a dream that it was Thanksgiving Day and I needed to make a pumpkin pie. I was stressed out because I had never made one before and didn't know the ingredients. I went to my pantry and grabbed a bag of egg noodles and flipped it over to the back. The directions for making pumpkin pie were on the back. There was a really long list of ingredients that I didn't have! I took the bag of noodles and headed to the store. I went through the isles filling up my cart. Midway through the list I got to two ingredients that stressed me out, listed on the package for pumpkin pie was "bulghur wheat" and "cracked wheat." I thought, hm, aren't those the same thing? And I never knew that there was bulghur wheat in pumpkin pie? Then I realized that all those little black specks in pumpkin pie was bulghur wheat and it all made sense. So I grabbed bulghur wheat and the rest of the ingredients. I started getting stressed out when I realized my shopping cart was practically full, so many ingredients! I was mad that I was spending so much money to make a pie from scratch when I could just buy it. I went home and unloaded all the ingredients and realized I had nothing "pumpkin" at all. I looked at the noodle package and there was nothing listed. I thought, how does it get the pumpkin flavor then? i decided I would add something anyway. So I went back to the store and stood staring at a huge display of different products that are pumpkin- canned pumpkin, pumpkin spice and various other boxed, jarred and canned items. I grabbed one and headed back home. Then I realized it was 3:00 and I was supposed to be at my friends for Thankgiving Dinner at 3:30 and hadn't even made the crust yet! I was so upset that I had all the ingredients, but didn't have enough time to make the pie. So I sat down in the kitchen and just imagined in my head what it would be like to make a pumpkin pie from scratch. I pictured rolling out the crust . . .

4 comments:

Reem Tara said...

You are so logical in this dream! Everything makes sense, and there's an answer for everything...pretty awesome. I bet you could make the shit out of a pumpkin pie in real life...

Sara Ashes said...

so we talked about cracked wheat several times yesterday and did a lot of dough rolling- did you have my dream???

Tara said...

my favorite part is the cracked wheat part. like i realize that it actually is in pumpkin pie! i love that it is so logical in the dream. and that the recipe is on a bag of noodles!

i think i had this dream because i actually do have to make pumpkin pie for the first time, but the whole cracked wheat must have been borrowed!

SophisticatedBrew said...

Ugh, shopping and baking IS hard. stupid, delicious, pumpkin pie.