Right. It's baked right into the word "creme"; why would anyone think to heat a pie where whipped cream is a basic component? Like most creme pies (chocolate, lemon, banana, key lime, maybe coconut), it's the pie you eat at IHOP or Denny's when you're not ready to go home yet. I don't know anybody who regards any of them as holiday pies, unless the holiday is the Fourth of July. Winter holiday pies for Thanksgiving/Christmas require baking, to prove you made an effort. The creme pies, which are all basically pudding poured into a prebaked crust, are a snap to make. Key lime usualy comes in a crust of crushed graham crackers and butter, which is even easier. Pumpkin and sweet potato pies are really just sugar delivery vehicles; you mix mashed plant stuff with a LOT of corn syrup with seasonings (the "pumpkin spice" everything that appears in the fall uses only the spices that go in pumpkin pie - cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice - but no actual pumpkin). Pecan pie is pretty much a corn syrup gel with pecans on top; it's one of the sweetest pies around. Traditional holiday pies are usually region-specific, and almost always fruit, aside from the pumpkin (mostly from cans - there's a specific pumpkin variety in the Midwest that's grown just to get mashed up and put into cans for pie. The jack-o-lantern pumpkins you carve up for Halloween are not tasty for pie use), sweet potato or pecan (sweet potato and pecan are mostly Southeastern pies). Michigan has a lot of cherry pies; New England and the Pacific Northwest have berry pies - blueberry in Maine, blackberry/raspberry/loganberry/boysenberry/marionberry/olallieberry in Oregon and Washington, huckleberry in Idaho and Montana (huckleberry is like a big blueberry). California has a big strawberry crop, but here we usually make strawberries into creme pies, not the cooked strawberry/rhubarb pies of other places. Pies are a foodstuff that Americans did not invent, but we definitely perfected and expanded in all directions. Sandwiches and pizza are other examples of this American tendency; maybe salads, too. This is why there are Subway Sandwich outlets in French and Belgian train stations (I had a very pleasant chat with the Subway owner in the Gare du Midi in Brussels once), and American-style pizza parlors in Naples. The only reason people get all outraged about pineapple on American pizzas (with ham, bacon or Canadian bacon - it was invented in Hawaii) is because only an American would be daring enough to experiment that way.
One thing I like about desert pies is that you can have them, cold, coolish room temperature or warm. It often effects how they taste. That chocolate pie might be bad overall but it might have just been one to eat cold like pudding (American meaning of the word)
I was stationed in West Virginia where a locale family adopted me for Thanksgiving dinner. To this day out of a delightful meal, I most remember the homemade sweet potato pie which was topped with melted marshmallows. To die for!!
There are lots of apple orchards in my part of Michigan, so homemade apple pie is popular here, any time of year. Celebrate Thanksgiving wherever you are.
My Granny was from Maine. Her Daddy was Irish. She always said pee-can. She married Paw Paw who was a West Texan. He said p’con. He used to say a peecan was something you keep under the bed for night tinkling. 😅
The absolute best pies I have ever eaten in my life were all baked by old ladies in rural Maine, where pie-baking is a competitive contact sport. Non-Maine pies can be quite good, but they don't compare to the pinnacle pies of the Pine Tree State.
@@DianeJennings In Massachusetts, there is a limit on how many liquor licenses a company can own. I think for a long time it was three, but in recent years it has been increasing gradually. It's probably around five or six now. So of all the Walmarts in the state, only a few of them are allowed to sell alcohol.
Here in Florida, our Publixes (the most popular supermarket; also, pluralizing that looks weird) sell only beer and wine. But many have a "separate" Publix Liquor store, which is really just a small room attached to the main shop building and separated only in that it has its own entry door. Kind of weird how the law works like that.
@@garyamartin In Maine, you can buy beer at the grocery store, but wine and distilled spirits have to be purchased from liquor stores operated by the state. A lot of New England states have funny liquor laws, which often date back to when the Puritans ran the place. South Carolina used to have a law where you could only buy bottled liquor from sunrise to sunset. And that doesn't even go as far as all the counties (mostly rural ones in the South) that are "dry" - no liquor may be sold within the county limits. Famously, the county in Tennessee where Jack Daniel's distills its well-knows sour mash whiskey is a dry county; they can make it, but they can't sell any to people who take the factory tour. Limitations on what kind of liquor may be sold where and under what circumstances are complex in the US because they're typically state by state, and often county by county or city by city. The only national policy I'm aware of is the minimum age limit of 21 for purchase, largely because the Department of Transportation will withhold highway repair funds from any state that tries to lower the age limit. While a lot of the motivations are religious or temperance-based, there are other motivations. I've lived my whole life in a neighborhood just over one mile from the University of California at Berkeley campus. Back before WWI, drunken college students used to vandalize buildings ane cause trouble downtown (2 blocks from campus). So th City of Berkeley imposed a regulation that a retailer couldn't sell packaged liquor within one mile of the Cal Berkeley campus. That's why all the liquor stores on the main thoroughfares start in my neighborhood. In the old days, this was a severe limit to public drunkenness: Liquor by the drink in a restaurant/hotel was expensive, and you'd have to walk the mile to buy a bottle, and then walk back. Obviously, it's much easier now with a vehicle of some sort; all the grocery stores have wine and spirits, with the spirits often behind locked glass doors or in cages to prevent shoplifting.
Pumpkin and Pecan are the Thanksgiving pies, but cherry and apple are very popular. Sweet potato pie is more regional, in the South. Cold leftover pumpkin pie the next morning for breakfast is so good, with coffee, and just pick up the pie wedge in your hand. Another thanksgiving dessert is peach cobbler. Eaten warm, with vanilla ice cream.
Gotta have pumpkin pie or pecan pie for Thanksgiving, or both. 😋 Thanks for trying all those pies. Pecan is one of my favorites. Have a great weekend and be safe! 🙏🏼
Usually we have homemade pumpkin pies with home whipped cream. We buy whipping cream and then whip it ourselves. If we have to buy the pies, we usually go to our local bakery and use Cool Whip Extra Creamy. (Wisconsin, USA)
My favorite pie 🥧 is French Silk pie, which is a type of chocolate pie. I truly hope you hadn't heated that chocolate pie up because it is supposed to be served cold. My 2nd favorite pie is sweet potato pie. 🤤😋 I tend to have sweet potato pie more often, though. Pattie Labelle is a famous R&B and Soul singer. We say autumn & fall.
"Patty LaBelle? Was she a chef?" Ouch. Now I feel old. She's a very famous singer of Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, and even Pop. But dearest Diane, I'd be willing to bet you've heard at least a couple of her songs. Most likely "Lady Marmalade." Or "New Attitude!" Great video, by the way. And you just need to try a really good chocolate pie, preferably the frozen kind, with Oreo cookie crust and sweet cream!
Or maybe resist the impulse to stick a cream pie in a microwave before eating. Diane, try eating the chocolate pie cold, the way G_d and the bakers at Walmart's supplier intended?
Doing a lot of over the road driving in my life, there are a few Dinners I think are wonderful for Thanksgiving dinner. If you ever visit Wisconsin again, I recommend The House on the Rock (especially in October/Halloween time) and Bayfield WI.
Cream pies (chocolate, banana, coconut, etc) are really made to be eaten cold. Patty Labelle isn't a chef, she's another singer you need to check out sometime.
As for apple pie for Thanksgiving, I don't think there is anything some Americans won't eat for Thanksgiving. We are having it this year because it's the one our family can agree on.
Thanksgiving is officially about gratitude, but everyone knows it's really about food 😂 I don't like turkey very much -- I don't hate it, but it's meh to me -- so for a few years now, my family has been doing both turkey and ham for Thanksgiving. But then you've got all the sides: cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, homemade chocolate cream pie (in my family, at least)... I'm probably forgetting a few. Leftovers for a week or more! 😁 ...now I'm hungry and want it to be next week already...
I prefer most berry pies (blueberry, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, etc.) over any of the pies she tried in the video. Best to do them when the particular berries are in season though. Lemon meringue would be up there at the top of all pies for me most of the time.
@@aura81295 I love lemon pie; I got a wedge just the other day from Nations Burgers with my bacon cheeseburger, so I'd have the pie for breakfast (breakfast pie RULES). But lemon is really more of a summer pie. The same recipes one uses for lemons or limes can also be used with anything in the orange category (oranges, tangerines, tangelos, mandarins etc) or grapefruit - you just modify the sugar to suit. Lemon ice cream (*not* sherbet; ice cream) - also awesome.
I think the kind pies at Thanksgiving most people get is Pumpkin + one. The second pie can be almost anything. Apple, Blueberry, Sweet potato, Pecan, Etc. Pumpkin pie is traditional, the second and maybe third depends on what you like.
@@michaelrosel1951 Blueberry pie (especially with the tiny low-bush blueberries from Maine, and extra-especially if its made by an old grandma out in the country) is the king of pies, the tsar of pies, the brutal warlord of pies. No other pie is its equal.
On the West Coast, every few place settings in a Cantonese (South China) banquet hall has a bottle of sparkling water and a bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, both right next to the teapot. Note for Europeans: Americans use the word "cider" to apply both to alcoholic cider and to nonalcoholic apple juice. Martinelli's is not alcoholic.
Every states alcohol laws are different and they even confuse us Americans. I live in WV. You can get beer and wine in grocery stores and gas stations, except before 1pm or noon on Sundays (see even I don’t know). All liquor has to be bought in specific stores with a special license. I think only a few places in each county are allowed to sell it. In my county it is the local Walgreens but the neighboring county’s Walgreens does NOT have liquor. In that county it is 2 stores that sell tobacco products and 1 gas station.
I would eat apple pie at Thanksgiving, but I'd be _wanting_ pumpkin and pecan pies instead. Things I learned today: I am a "rascal" for living in Oregon and liking a bit of whiskey, which requires going to a liquor store. I will remember to dress appropriately rascally next time I'm there. I might skulk. If you ever find yourself in the Pacific northwest, I highly recommend seeking out baked goods containing marionberries. I don't think they are widely available elsewhere, either because there's a limited supply or they don't travel well. Probably you can get Tillamook marionberry ice cream-Tillamook distributes to a fair distance. Anyway, try to get some marionberry pie, or at least a muffin. Wonderful stuff.
Although the druped berries ("drupes" are those little bulbs in raspberries, blackberries etc with the seeds inside) are common all over the West Coast, the specific varieties are more localized. California has raspberries, loganberrues and blackberries (we used to have a blackberry jungle in our back yard; I had a hell of a time chopping all those invasive Armenian blackberry vines out after they took over the entire yard. terrific berries, though). The weirder hybrids like marionberry, olallieberry and dewberry seem to only be available near their home turf in Oregon/Washington.
Martinelli’s is bottled where I grew up, Watsonville CA! So of course, we have it for Thanksgiving and other special occasions. They have several different blends that you need to try!
Yeah, I’ve never been clear; is Martinelli’s widely available outside California? It’s universal here. I just remember it from old-school Cantonese restaurant banquets as a kid; every few place settings had a teapot, with a bottle of club soda and a bottle of Martinelli’s sparkling cider next to it.
A lot of bakeries are single owned, so they are there at 4 o'clock in the morning, then close around six so they can get home to family. Some of them will take orders, so you can order it, pick it up, then save it for the evening.
In our household for Thanksgiving while growing up it would always be the same, my Dad would come home from work with a fresh Custard (either regular or Coconut) and Apple Pies (either regular or Dutch) and my Mom's brothers would show with fresh Sweet Potato, Blueberry and Pumpkin Pies. It may sound like a lot but we usually would have in excess of 20 relatives for dinner with more coming over during the day due to them having dinner at the in-laws. Christmas Eve and Christmas would be even bigger. As for Patti LaBelle, you should add her song If You Asked Me To to your musical discovery. It was actually a James Bond theme.
Watched yesterday an hour after you posted from the next town over in Norwood MA my wife and I just looked at each other and said, what ? Pumpkin pie is the best for Thanksgiving, the best real pie place in the area happens to be in Walpole - the "Ever so Humble Pie" shop. Hope you are enjoying your stay.
Alcohol sales can vary immensely depending on where you are in the states. Up until about 8 years ago you couldn't buy alcohol on Sundays in the state I lived. There are still laws regulating the hours it can be sold it stores as well as limits on the amount you can purchase per visit. A friend of mine lived in a county where you couldn't buy alcohol outside of a restaurant or bar. It was a "dry" county. So the laws can vary by state, county, and even city. I've seen groceries rope off the aisles to signal that sales weren't allowed at that time. Others have separated the alcohol into a second "store" that's attached to the main store. It can be difficult to navigate at times.
I make pumpkin and pecan pie, every year, for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The pecan pie filling (when homemade) is corn syrup, sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla.
Thank Goodness Diane Yes, it is very customary to eat apple pie for Thanksgiving and several times across the year. There are various versions depending on region of the US, including Dutch apple pie, apple butter, apple burbon, fried apple, apple crumble, caramel apple, and French apple tart. Apple, pumpkin, and sweet potato pies are the more common (traditional) pies eaten at Thanksgiving, but there could also be others depending on particular / culture family traditions.
@@DianeJennings Yes, and in the South, there could also be rhubarb pie, peach pie, lemon meringue pie, coconut cream, chocolate cream, cherry pie, and raisin pie.
Great idea for a video. You are not doing apple pie justice unless you have some vanilla ice cream to melt a bit on top of it. If you are going cream pie I'd recommend coconut cream or banana cream.
Massachusetts has packies (package stores) and can't sell spirits elsewhere. They may have expanded that to certain grocery stores. The Connecticut side of the border is loaded with liquor stores for a very good reason.
You can buy alcohol in local Mass grocery stores, just not in places like WalMart (from my experience). There’s a whole grocery store chain across Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut that merged with a local liquor store.
Liquor laws in the US vary depending on the state. It's a legacy of prohibition. When prohibition was repealed it wasn't repealed all the way, the states were given much more power over alcohol than of any other good. The interstate commerce clause of the Constitution does not apply to alcohol. Massachusetts requires all alcohol sales to pass through distributors and then to package stores. Wine is sold in some supermarkets but not all, it requires a license. Next door in NH all liquor sales are restricted to state liquor stores. Wine and beer may be sold by supermarkets. Massachusetts has a particular weirdness, incredibly strict carding rules in supermarkets. Everybody is carded to prove they are over 21. I'm 70 and they demand to see my driver's license to buy a bottle of wine.
We usually eat apple pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate pudding pie on Thanksgiving. When my Grandpa was still alive, he used to make raspberry pie from the raspberries he grew in his garden.
Apple, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, and Pecan are all autumn harvests. So, yes. All of them are common options for Thanksgiving here. Pumpkin and Apple are my two favorites, but I'll eat any of them if someone's serving them.
Chocolate Cream pie is meant to be ate COLD. Its should be like whipped cream.. But a hair firmer. Buy the frozen cream pies, and just allow them to thaw on the counter. Other pies to try: Cherry (my favorite) Banana cream Coconut cream Blueberry And even better, get a Carvel brand, ice cream cake (ice cream with crunchy chocolate crumbles inside). Its heavenly. Just get the default version (white exterior. It has chocolate and vanilla inside). Other ice cream cakes are no match for Carvels quality / taste
In the US, laws on who/what can sell alcohol differ across states...some places do sell beer/wine in the supermarkets. And without a doubt...pumpkin pie is the best part of Thanksgiving...
My favorite pie is a twist on the Grasshopper pie. It has nothing to do with the insect in case you were wondering. My late Aunt Linda would make it every year. But the kiddoes were never allowed to eat it because it had alcohol in it. It's not heated but refrigerated. Nothing like it anywhere. My only other thing to say is. Crushed Oreo cookies is the crust.
Apple pie is for breakfast. But I guess that makes me a Yankee. When I studied linguistics at university, one of my professors told me this. If you ask what a Yankee is, in most of the world, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from America. If you come to America and ask in the South, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from the North. If you ask in the North, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from the East. If you ask in the East, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from Connecticut. If you ask in Connecticut, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
Get something like a chocolate silk pie, bowtie pie or turtle pie from the freezer department. Those are good chocolate pies. I don't think people serve that kind of pie warm. They are not the best either. You should do blueberry pie (warm) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Apple pie with ice cream is good too. Pecan and pumpkin are the best though for me.
That was brilliant, Diane. Loved your reactions. Favorite pies? Pecan, rhubarb, and coconut cream pie. Pecans have become really expensive over the past decade, inflation aside, because many are now exported. Did you have Boston cream pie when you were in Boston? Try it sometime even if you're not in Boston! You and Chewie have a great weekend. Take care.
The sales of alcohol in grocery stores is regulated by each state and sometimes by individual cities or towns in the state. When I lived in Nebraska I could get beer, wine and liquor at the grocers. Now I live in Connecticut and can only buy beer at the store and have to go to a liquor store for wine and liquor. It’s damn inconvenient.
Pies can also be very regional in the US. There are some flavors that are really well known in certain states and unheard of in others. Like other regional foods, there are even some that are like the most popular in some areas that make the rest of the country go "You like that?!" Pumpkin pie is my favorite, but I learned through another creator's poll that lots of folks think it's gross. Strawberry rhubarb is my favorite fruit pie, and my other big faves are French Silk and pecan.
For tradition's sake, I gotta go with pumpkin pie. That is, when I'm getting together with family/friends. But, for example, the day after Thanksgiving...if I'm cooking something up for myself, then I'm going with rhubarb/strawberry pie. And a slight confession. Currently, I have a banana cream pie in my freezer and I'm going to try and pick up an apple pie tomorrow. Some might say I have a problem. And to that, I would agree. I don't have enough pie. 😁🥧
My favorite is chocolate meringue pie, but not everybody else's. No homemade like my mother used to make, old fashion receipt going back to my grandmother. Also, you try mincemeat pie.
Whip eggs with melted butter over low heat until smooth then gradually add molasses whilst stirring until thickened to the desired consistency and you will have a better tasting pecan pie filling made entirely from pronounceable ingredients.😁👍
@@andreabryant9979 Yeah, most pecan pies are glorified sugar delivery systems with pecan decoration. UMD's idea sounds like an interesting experiment, if you load it up with pecans (or walnuts, which are way cheaper here in California - toast them first). I do a similar kind of modification to the Toll House cookie recipe off the Nestle's chocolate chip bag: replace half the white sugar with brown sugar(and maybe use less sugar overall; enough to bind all the creamed butter is sufficient), whole wheat flour, cinnamon/nutmeg (sometimes powdered ginger), lots of nuts, sometimes some orange zest, and a LOT of Myers Dark Rum. My modified toll house cookies are denser, chewier, more textured than the official kind; there’s a lot more going on, flavor and mouthfeel-wise. Plus all the rum. Official recipes; they're just the starting point.
@@aquilapetram The tollhouse cookies sound delicious. For about the past 10 years, I’ve been making pecan pies with real maple syrup. Pecan prices aren’t too bad around here. I live on the northern Gulf Coast. You can still see pecan orchards around here.
Some pies I would say that you can warm up in a microwave but mostly they are usually served at room temperature. Some are even kept colder in the fridge. Warming that chocolate one probably did not help it.
Diane, you've probably heard Patty Labelle songs before. She's a famous R&B singer who has been around since the 60's. If you've ever seen the movie Moulin Rouge, she was in a group called Labelle, and they sang the original version of the song "Lady Marmalade" which you may have heard before
There's store-bought from the grocery store (or Walmart? Commenter, *please*), and then there's store-bought from a bakery/restaurant that knows how to make pies. I used to cook at a local restaurant called FatApple's (originally Fat Albert's back in the 1970s, until Bill Cosby sued them for trademark violation) that has an awesome bakery, making burger buns, pies and pastry daily for the restaurant and for takeaway. For decades now, when I go over to my brother's house for Thanksgiving, the price of my entry is an olallieberry pie from FatApples (olallieberry is a hybrid of blackberry, raspberry, loganberry and a few others in that family). I get two: One to bring for the communal dinner, and one to stick in the refrigerator all for myself.
The state of Georgia is the largest producer of pecans in the world. In fact, 1/2 of the global crop is grown here. Yes, pecans are a nut grown on a very large tree. Pecan trees are similar to walnut trees but much larger. At least they are larger than our native black walnuts.
You appeared to like this bigger pecan pie better than the mini pecan pie with crushed pecans from Walmart you taste-tested about two or three years ago.
When on one of your trips, you should try a slice of chocolate cream pie from a restaurant. I guarantee you'll like it a lot better than the one you ate in the video. Or, if someone can get some Graham crackers (for crust) and a package or two of Jell-O pudding and pie filling to you in Europe, you could make your own. Even if you don't make it very well, I bet you'll like it.
2 more votes for pecan pie and rhubarb pie. I think I also heard somewhere that the cherries in Ireland are the more bitter variety, so that maybe cherry pie doesn't sound very appealing to an Irish person, but they are very good too.
@@EddieReischl I looked into this when I was trying to figure out why the sweet cherries we usually get in California produce markets don’t make especially good pies; they tend to get mushy. Turns out that for pie making, you use sour cherries, not sweet ones; you then adjust the sugar content for taste, adding enough sugar that the filling gels properly when cooked. The biggest supplier of sour cherries in the US is Michigan(!), which I understand produces no sweet cherries at all; everything they grow is canned and sold for things like pie filling (there’s also a terrific Hungarian cold cherry soup you can make with these cherries). Washington State also produces sour cherries; the Montmorency variety is the one you’re most likely to see in a produce section, although I’ve never seen them for more than a week or two each year. Cherries, almonds, apricots, peaches, plums and nectarines are all in the same family. If you’ve ever seen a recipe that calls for bitter almonds, the kernel of a peach or plum pit will be a practical substitute.
We used to have mincemeat pies at Thanksgiving too, WAAAYYYY back in the day. Can't imagine a mincemeat pie from Walmart would be good though. They didn't even have molasses in their pecan pie...
@barkingmonkee we usually get ours from a local grocery store but they aren't making them this year. My sister found a can of mincemeat at WinCo and will make one.
@@dovah69_5 There’s a restaurant on the wharf in Southwest Harbor, Maine that has both lemon meringue pie AND lemon chiffon pie. In a meringue, the egg whites are spread on the top of the lemon custard and baked; in a chiffon, the whipped egg whites are blended into the lemon custard, making the whole pie talller and airier. I’ve never much liked the texture of meringue; the lemon chiffon is awesome.
One of my favorite pies that grandma used to make is Mock Apple Pie. It is made with Ritz crackers, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, lemon zest and butter. There is something in the combination of ingredients that makes it taste just like real apple pie, in fact her Mock Apple was better than her real apple pie.
Pecan pie is probably my top for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin is good too. There is a local pie called Derby Pie that I also love. It's close to pecan pie but is made with walnuts and chocolate chips.
We always had about 10 different pies at Thanksgiving. All homemade and 1000 times more flavor than store bought. Some pies you never ever heat up like choclate (that would be a disaster....ewww). Vinegar pie tastes like lemon pie, no joke. Always had pecan, strawberry, pumpkin, dutch apple, lattice apple, choclate, cherry, and three or four surprise flavors. Pecan and Dutch apple were my favorites. At Christmas we have about 50 different homemade candies. So much joy, family, and thankfulness. In college we would buy giant homemade pies for $10 around 2005 and ate them for breakfast all week long (for $10). Apple pie makes a good breakfast, just a little sweet.
Thanks Diane for the Shout Out. Happy Thanksgiving! Good Shout Outs Brian and Tim. The good thing about Wal-Mart is there's so many varieties of pie. some are in the bakery and some are in the freezers with the ice cream. Some pies are even chocolate and candy bar flavors. Did You know There's a pie called millionaire pie?
millionaire pie it's made with whip cream, pineapple, chopped pecans, and graham cracker crust. Cheesecakes are have graham cracker crust. I got that at furrs cafeteria the menu had all eat of food and desserts it's really good. You oughta try it sometime the furrs recipe is online.
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WHATS YOUR go to THANKSGIVING PIE 🥧 ?
Lemon Meringue
For Thanksgiving, pumpkin. For the rest of the year, cherry, followed closely by lemon meringue.
Chocolate pecan
Pumpkin pie with some spray whipped topping
Three days after Thanksgiving it's Turkey Pie.
You don't heat up chocolate creme pie. It's meant to be eaten cold. With a cup of coffee at 3am after drinking all night. Lol
Right. It's baked right into the word "creme"; why would anyone think to heat a pie where whipped cream is a basic component?
Like most creme pies (chocolate, lemon, banana, key lime, maybe coconut), it's the pie you eat at IHOP or Denny's when you're not ready to go home yet. I don't know anybody who regards any of them as holiday pies, unless the holiday is the Fourth of July. Winter holiday pies for Thanksgiving/Christmas require baking, to prove you made an effort. The creme pies, which are all basically pudding poured into a prebaked crust, are a snap to make. Key lime usualy comes in a crust of crushed graham crackers and butter, which is even easier.
Pumpkin and sweet potato pies are really just sugar delivery vehicles; you mix mashed plant stuff with a LOT of corn syrup with seasonings (the "pumpkin spice" everything that appears in the fall uses only the spices that go in pumpkin pie - cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice - but no actual pumpkin). Pecan pie is pretty much a corn syrup gel with pecans on top; it's one of the sweetest pies around.
Traditional holiday pies are usually region-specific, and almost always fruit, aside from the pumpkin (mostly from cans - there's a specific pumpkin variety in the Midwest that's grown just to get mashed up and put into cans for pie. The jack-o-lantern pumpkins you carve up for Halloween are not tasty for pie use), sweet potato or pecan (sweet potato and pecan are mostly Southeastern pies). Michigan has a lot of cherry pies; New England and the Pacific Northwest have berry pies - blueberry in Maine, blackberry/raspberry/loganberry/boysenberry/marionberry/olallieberry in Oregon and Washington, huckleberry in Idaho and Montana (huckleberry is like a big blueberry). California has a big strawberry crop, but here we usually make strawberries into creme pies, not the cooked strawberry/rhubarb pies of other places.
Pies are a foodstuff that Americans did not invent, but we definitely perfected and expanded in all directions. Sandwiches and pizza are other examples of this American tendency; maybe salads, too. This is why there are Subway Sandwich outlets in French and Belgian train stations (I had a very pleasant chat with the Subway owner in the Gare du Midi in Brussels once), and American-style pizza parlors in Naples. The only reason people get all outraged about pineapple on American pizzas (with ham, bacon or Canadian bacon - it was invented in Hawaii) is because only an American would be daring enough to experiment that way.
Wait.... You DON'T want to eat pie in the morning???!!! But, pie is a breakfast food! 😁
I always cook a second Pumpkin, just for breakfasts
Leftovers is hard enough to eat if you have to eat the pies too. Better to have the pies for breakfast, then leftover turkey sandwiches for dinner.
I usually don't eat sweets, but there is nothing better than a warm slice of pecan pie topped with Blue Bell homemade vanilla ice cream
Substitute pecan with pumpkin, and I'm right there with you.
Apple Cranberry pie and vanilla ice cream.
Right now I have Sweet Potato pie in the oven, made with Okinawan purple sweet potatoes from my garden.
Cosign about the Blue Bell.
Haagen-Daz Vanilla Bean Ice Cream is far better then any other store bought Ice Cream!
One thing I like about desert pies is that you can have them, cold, coolish room temperature or warm. It often effects how they taste. That chocolate pie might be bad overall but it might have just been one to eat cold like pudding (American meaning of the word)
Apple crisp with ice cream
Patti LaBelle is Famous American R&B singer or soul singer.
How is it possible to be a media-connected person without having heard "Lady Marmalade"? ruclips.net/video/t4LWIP7SAjY/видео.html
I was stationed in West Virginia where a locale family adopted me for Thanksgiving dinner. To this day out of a delightful meal, I most remember the homemade sweet potato pie which was topped with melted marshmallows. To die for!!
Pumpkin and Dutch Apple
There are lots of apple orchards in my part of Michigan, so homemade apple pie is popular here, any time of year. Celebrate Thanksgiving wherever you are.
My Granny was from Maine. Her Daddy was Irish. She always said pee-can. She married Paw Paw who was a West Texan. He said p’con. He used to say a peecan was something you keep under the bed for night tinkling. 😅
Yes, a pee can is something you urinate in.
Pa can is a nut.
The absolute best pies I have ever eaten in my life were all baked by old ladies in rural Maine, where pie-baking is a competitive contact sport. Non-Maine pies can be quite good, but they don't compare to the pinnacle pies of the Pine Tree State.
Patti LaBelle was a famous R&B singer from the 70's. You should give her a listen.
I will be haveing one of the blackberry cobblers she sells on Turkey day.
Different states have differing laws regarding what alchohol pruducts can be sold in groceries.
I’m very surprised 😳
@@DianeJennings In Massachusetts, there is a limit on how many liquor licenses a company can own. I think for a long time it was three, but in recent years it has been increasing gradually. It's probably around five or six now. So of all the Walmarts in the state, only a few of them are allowed to sell alcohol.
Here in Florida, our Publixes (the most popular supermarket; also, pluralizing that looks weird) sell only beer and wine. But many have a "separate" Publix Liquor store, which is really just a small room attached to the main shop building and separated only in that it has its own entry door. Kind of weird how the law works like that.
@@IceMetalPunk Of course, if you want alcohol, you go to Walgreens pharmacy, where your health matters.
@@garyamartin In Maine, you can buy beer at the grocery store, but wine and distilled spirits have to be purchased from liquor stores operated by the state.
A lot of New England states have funny liquor laws, which often date back to when the Puritans ran the place. South Carolina used to have a law where you could only buy bottled liquor from sunrise to sunset. And that doesn't even go as far as all the counties (mostly rural ones in the South) that are "dry" - no liquor may be sold within the county limits. Famously, the county in Tennessee where Jack Daniel's distills its well-knows sour mash whiskey is a dry county; they can make it, but they can't sell any to people who take the factory tour.
Limitations on what kind of liquor may be sold where and under what circumstances are complex in the US because they're typically state by state, and often county by county or city by city. The only national policy I'm aware of is the minimum age limit of 21 for purchase, largely because the Department of Transportation will withhold highway repair funds from any state that tries to lower the age limit.
While a lot of the motivations are religious or temperance-based, there are other motivations. I've lived my whole life in a neighborhood just over one mile from the University of California at Berkeley campus. Back before WWI, drunken college students used to vandalize buildings ane cause trouble downtown (2 blocks from campus). So th City of Berkeley imposed a regulation that a retailer couldn't sell packaged liquor within one mile of the Cal Berkeley campus. That's why all the liquor stores on the main thoroughfares start in my neighborhood. In the old days, this was a severe limit to public drunkenness: Liquor by the drink in a restaurant/hotel was expensive, and you'd have to walk the mile to buy a bottle, and then walk back. Obviously, it's much easier now with a vehicle of some sort; all the grocery stores have wine and spirits, with the spirits often behind locked glass doors or in cages to prevent shoplifting.
Pumpkin and Pecan are the Thanksgiving pies, but cherry and apple are very popular. Sweet potato pie is more regional, in the South. Cold leftover pumpkin pie the next morning for breakfast is so good, with coffee, and just pick up the pie wedge in your hand. Another thanksgiving dessert is peach cobbler. Eaten warm, with vanilla ice cream.
That's how I know its fall in South Florida. The pumpkin pies hit the stores and our house starts buying them for breakfast, lol.
About the only kinds of pie that are not improved by the addition of vanilla ice cream are cream pies.
you still have to try strawberry rhubarb, lemon meringue, and Marion berry pies
No, just rhubarb. Strawberry defiles it.
Mulberries compliments the rhubarb. Grandma is never wrong.
Gotta have pumpkin pie or pecan pie for Thanksgiving, or both. 😋
Thanks for trying all those pies. Pecan is one of my favorites.
Have a great weekend and be safe! 🙏🏼
You are so welcome! I was pleasantly surprised 🎉
@@DianeJennings That Chocolate Pie is meant to be eaten cold.
Thanksgiving is kinda a fall harvest party when we give thanks and eat alot of food. Pie is at the end before we pass out.
Usually we have homemade pumpkin pies with home whipped cream. We buy whipping cream and then whip it ourselves. If we have to buy the pies, we usually go to our local bakery and use Cool Whip Extra Creamy. (Wisconsin, USA)
My favorite pie 🥧 is French Silk pie, which is a type of chocolate pie. I truly hope you hadn't heated that chocolate pie up because it is supposed to be served cold. My 2nd favorite pie is sweet potato pie. 🤤😋 I tend to have sweet potato pie more often, though.
Pattie Labelle is a famous R&B and Soul singer.
We say autumn & fall.
"Patty LaBelle? Was she a chef?" Ouch. Now I feel old. She's a very famous singer of Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, and even Pop. But dearest Diane, I'd be willing to bet you've heard at least a couple of her songs. Most likely "Lady Marmalade." Or "New Attitude!"
Great video, by the way. And you just need to try a really good chocolate pie, preferably the frozen kind, with Oreo cookie crust and sweet cream!
Or maybe resist the impulse to stick a cream pie in a microwave before eating. Diane, try eating the chocolate pie cold, the way G_d and the bakers at Walmart's supplier intended?
@aquilapetram Ack! She heated it up? I missed that! No no no! Big no!
Doing a lot of over the road driving in my life, there are a few Dinners I think are wonderful for Thanksgiving dinner. If you ever visit Wisconsin again, I recommend The House on the Rock (especially in October/Halloween time) and Bayfield WI.
Cream pies (chocolate, banana, coconut, etc) are really made to be eaten cold.
Patty Labelle isn't a chef, she's another singer you need to check out sometime.
As for apple pie for Thanksgiving, I don't think there is anything some Americans won't eat for Thanksgiving. We are having it this year because it's the one our family can agree on.
Thanksgiving is officially about gratitude, but everyone knows it's really about food 😂 I don't like turkey very much -- I don't hate it, but it's meh to me -- so for a few years now, my family has been doing both turkey and ham for Thanksgiving. But then you've got all the sides: cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, homemade chocolate cream pie (in my family, at least)... I'm probably forgetting a few. Leftovers for a week or more! 😁
...now I'm hungry and want it to be next week already...
That sparkling apple cider is just amazing!!!!
It’s one of my favorite beverages!
Glad you tried it!
Oh BTW I'm a retired Pastry Chef Blueberry Pie is my family's favorite. My daughters demand I make one for each of them.
I prefer most berry pies (blueberry, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, etc.) over any of the pies she tried in the video. Best to do them when the particular berries are in season though. Lemon meringue would be up there at the top of all pies for me most of the time.
@@aura81295 I love lemon pie; I got a wedge just the other day from Nations Burgers with my bacon cheeseburger, so I'd have the pie for breakfast (breakfast pie RULES). But lemon is really more of a summer pie. The same recipes one uses for lemons or limes can also be used with anything in the orange category (oranges, tangerines, tangelos, mandarins etc) or grapefruit - you just modify the sugar to suit.
Lemon ice cream (*not* sherbet; ice cream) - also awesome.
I think the kind pies at Thanksgiving most people get is Pumpkin + one. The second pie can be almost anything. Apple, Blueberry, Sweet potato, Pecan, Etc. Pumpkin pie is traditional, the second and maybe third depends on what you like.
I forgot about blueberry.
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Blueberry pie (especially with the tiny low-bush blueberries from Maine, and extra-especially if its made by an old grandma out in the country) is the king of pies, the tsar of pies, the brutal warlord of pies. No other pie is its equal.
Normally I am either a lemon meringue or cherry pie guy, but in the autumn, it is pumpkin pie season.
Not even sure which order of the three (probably depends on the time of year) but these three: yes, yes, yes.
Martinelli's is hands down better than any champagne I've tasted! It's perfect for Thanksgiving too.
On the West Coast, every few place settings in a Cantonese (South China) banquet hall has a bottle of sparkling water and a bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, both right next to the teapot.
Note for Europeans: Americans use the word "cider" to apply both to alcoholic cider and to nonalcoholic apple juice. Martinelli's is not alcoholic.
In fact we usually call the fun stuff "hard cider" to differentiate it from a dark or spiced apple juice (regular cider).
Sparkling cider is not alcoholic.
Every states alcohol laws are different and they even confuse us Americans. I live in WV. You can get beer and wine in grocery stores and gas stations, except before 1pm or noon on Sundays (see even I don’t know). All liquor has to be bought in specific stores with a special license. I think only a few places in each county are allowed to sell it. In my county it is the local Walgreens but the neighboring county’s Walgreens does NOT have liquor. In that county it is 2 stores that sell tobacco products and 1 gas station.
HELLO DIANE, MY FAVORITE THANKS GIVING PIE IS PUMPKIN AND APPLE .I FIND YOU VERY ENTERTAINING , YOU MAKE ME LAUGH ALL THE TIME. VENICE FL USA
2:23 Need to travel to BC Canada and get more surprised.
Here no alcohol in supermarkets, unless it's 0.5% or less 🙂
Many states have different laws regarding where you can buy alcohol. In Michigan you can pretty much get it anywhere.
I would eat apple pie at Thanksgiving, but I'd be _wanting_ pumpkin and pecan pies instead.
Things I learned today: I am a "rascal" for living in Oregon and liking a bit of whiskey, which requires going to a liquor store. I will remember to dress appropriately rascally next time I'm there. I might skulk.
If you ever find yourself in the Pacific northwest, I highly recommend seeking out baked goods containing marionberries. I don't think they are widely available elsewhere, either because there's a limited supply or they don't travel well. Probably you can get Tillamook marionberry ice cream-Tillamook distributes to a fair distance. Anyway, try to get some marionberry pie, or at least a muffin. Wonderful stuff.
Although the druped berries ("drupes" are those little bulbs in raspberries, blackberries etc with the seeds inside) are common all over the West Coast, the specific varieties are more localized. California has raspberries, loganberrues and blackberries (we used to have a blackberry jungle in our back yard; I had a hell of a time chopping all those invasive Armenian blackberry vines out after they took over the entire yard. terrific berries, though). The weirder hybrids like marionberry, olallieberry and dewberry seem to only be available near their home turf in Oregon/Washington.
Martinelli’s is bottled where I grew up, Watsonville CA! So of course, we have it for Thanksgiving and other special occasions. They have several different blends that you need to try!
Yeah, I’ve never been clear; is Martinelli’s widely available outside California? It’s universal here. I just remember it from old-school Cantonese restaurant banquets as a kid; every few place settings had a teapot, with a bottle of club soda and a bottle of Martinelli’s sparkling cider next to it.
My favorite chocolate pie is French silk pie. So good.
Peacon like beacon? Not a word, but that is my favorite pie along with chocolate cream.
A lot of bakeries are single owned, so they are there at 4 o'clock in the morning, then close around six so they can get home to family.
Some of them will take orders, so you can order it, pick it up, then save it for the evening.
Pumpkin, Apple & Pecan pie are my favorites
In our household for Thanksgiving while growing up it would always be the same, my Dad would come home from work with a fresh Custard (either regular or Coconut) and Apple Pies (either regular or Dutch) and my Mom's brothers would show with fresh Sweet Potato, Blueberry and Pumpkin Pies. It may sound like a lot but we usually would have in excess of 20 relatives for dinner with more coming over during the day due to them having dinner at the in-laws. Christmas Eve and Christmas would be even bigger.
As for Patti LaBelle, you should add her song If You Asked Me To to your musical discovery. It was actually a James Bond theme.
Watched yesterday an hour after you posted from the next town over in Norwood MA my wife and I just looked at each other and said, what ? Pumpkin pie is the best for Thanksgiving, the best real pie place in the area happens to be in Walpole - the "Ever so Humble Pie" shop. Hope you are enjoying your stay.
Alcohol sales can vary immensely depending on where you are in the states. Up until about 8 years ago you couldn't buy alcohol on Sundays in the state I lived. There are still laws regulating the hours it can be sold it stores as well as limits on the amount you can purchase per visit. A friend of mine lived in a county where you couldn't buy alcohol outside of a restaurant or bar. It was a "dry" county. So the laws can vary by state, county, and even city. I've seen groceries rope off the aisles to signal that sales weren't allowed at that time. Others have separated the alcohol into a second "store" that's attached to the main store. It can be difficult to navigate at times.
Absolutely WILD to me 😮😮😮😮
@@DianeJennings I imagine so. With in certain limits, states can make their own rules/laws regarding things.
for whipped cream, try the Reddi-whip blue label but the red label is good too
Agree. Reddi-Whip is the BOMB!
I make pumpkin and pecan pie, every year, for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The pecan pie filling (when homemade) is corn syrup, sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla.
Sounds fab!
@@DianeJennings ♥ ....and yes, it's so good; the pecan pie.
Thank Goodness Diane
Yes, it is very customary to eat apple pie for Thanksgiving and several times across the year. There are various versions depending on region of the US, including Dutch apple pie, apple butter, apple burbon, fried apple, apple crumble, caramel apple, and French apple tart.
Apple, pumpkin, and sweet potato pies are the more common (traditional) pies eaten at Thanksgiving, but there could also be others depending on particular / culture family traditions.
Oh wow!
@@DianeJennings Yes, and in the South, there could also be rhubarb pie, peach pie, lemon meringue pie, coconut cream, chocolate cream, cherry pie, and raisin pie.
Great idea for a video. You are not doing apple pie justice unless you have some vanilla ice cream to melt a bit on top of it. If you are going cream pie I'd recommend coconut cream or banana cream.
Sharp cheddar cheese is the other acceptable accompaniment to warm apple pie (apple pie is one of those pies that’s almost always better warm).
One of my favorites is sour cream raisin pie, because it's so quick and easy to make.
Massachusetts has packies (package stores) and can't sell spirits elsewhere. They may have expanded that to certain grocery stores. The Connecticut side of the border is loaded with liquor stores for a very good reason.
@@0529mpb Yes, it is all a matter of state laws.
You can buy alcohol in local Mass grocery stores, just not in places like WalMart (from my experience). There’s a whole grocery store chain across Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut that merged with a local liquor store.
Liquor laws in the US vary depending on the state. It's a legacy of prohibition. When prohibition was repealed it wasn't repealed all the way, the states were given much more power over alcohol than of any other good. The interstate commerce clause of the Constitution does not apply to alcohol.
Massachusetts requires all alcohol sales to pass through distributors and then to package stores. Wine is sold in some supermarkets but not all, it requires a license. Next door in NH all liquor sales are restricted to state liquor stores. Wine and beer may be sold by supermarkets.
Massachusetts has a particular weirdness, incredibly strict carding rules in supermarkets. Everybody is carded to prove they are over 21. I'm 70 and they demand to see my driver's license to buy a bottle of wine.
We usually eat apple pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate pudding pie on Thanksgiving. When my Grandpa was still alive, he used to make raspberry pie from the raspberries he grew in his garden.
My go-to pies are sweet potato pie and apple-cranberry pie.
Apple, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, and Pecan are all autumn harvests. So, yes. All of them are common options for Thanksgiving here. Pumpkin and Apple are my two favorites, but I'll eat any of them if someone's serving them.
The three most common Thanksgiving pies are Pecan, Sweet Potato, and Pumpkins pies. My preference is a good ole Texas Pecan pie, mmm mmm good.
You must be from the South. Here in the West, berry pies are common.
@@aquilapetram Texas, we're not considered part of the south.
Mom favorite was rhubarb pie, even planted it in the garden for a fresher pie. Mine is pumpkin for thanksgiving, a chocolate pecan in general.
Chocolate Cream pie is meant to be ate COLD. Its should be like whipped cream.. But a hair firmer.
Buy the frozen cream pies, and just allow them to thaw on the counter.
Other pies to try:
Cherry (my favorite)
Banana cream
Coconut cream
Blueberry
And even better, get a Carvel brand, ice cream cake (ice cream with crunchy chocolate crumbles inside). Its heavenly. Just get the default version (white exterior. It has chocolate and vanilla inside).
Other ice cream cakes are no match for Carvels quality / taste
Pumpkin pie has always been my favorite
In the US, laws on who/what can sell alcohol differ across states...some places do sell beer/wine in the supermarkets. And without a doubt...pumpkin pie is the best part of Thanksgiving...
The best part of Thanksgiving is being together with family & the Turkey with Gravy!
Loved the "Willie Wonka" reference!!! 😂😂
Banana cream pie!!!! Gotta try it. BUT DON"T HEAT IT!!
My favorite pie is a twist on the Grasshopper pie. It has nothing to do with the insect in case you were wondering. My late Aunt Linda would make it every year. But the kiddoes were never allowed to eat it because it had alcohol in it. It's not heated but refrigerated. Nothing like it anywhere. My only other thing to say is. Crushed Oreo cookies is the crust.
Cherry, Chocolat Cream pies are well known. And in some parts Peach pie. Banana Blue Berry is one I really like.
Banana cream pie, made by a chef.
Mmmmm 🤤
I agree with Diane here: mmmmmmm 🤤
Apple pie is for breakfast. But I guess that makes me a Yankee.
When I studied linguistics at university, one of my professors told me this.
If you ask what a Yankee is, in most of the world, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from America.
If you come to America and ask in the South, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from the North.
If you ask in the North, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from the East.
If you ask in the East, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone from Connecticut.
If you ask in Connecticut, they'll tell you that a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
The only people who *don't* eat pie for breakfast are people who don't have any pie.
Get something like a chocolate silk pie, bowtie pie or turtle pie from the freezer department. Those are good chocolate pies. I don't think people serve that kind of pie warm. They are not the best either. You should do blueberry pie (warm) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Apple pie with ice cream is good too. Pecan and pumpkin are the best though for me.
My favorites are: Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and Pecan. . .for Thanksgiving.
Mine too!
That was brilliant, Diane. Loved your reactions. Favorite pies? Pecan, rhubarb, and coconut cream pie. Pecans have become really expensive over the past decade, inflation aside, because many are now exported. Did you have Boston cream pie when you were in Boston? Try it sometime even if you're not in Boston! You and Chewie have a great weekend. Take care.
So good! You’ll have to wait n see 😜
The sales of alcohol in grocery stores is regulated by each state and sometimes by individual cities or towns in the state.
When I lived in Nebraska I could get beer, wine and liquor at the grocers. Now I live in Connecticut and can only buy beer at the store and have to go to a liquor store for wine and liquor. It’s damn inconvenient.
Costco pumpkin with land o lakes whipped cream.💚
Pies can also be very regional in the US. There are some flavors that are really well known in certain states and unheard of in others. Like other regional foods, there are even some that are like the most popular in some areas that make the rest of the country go "You like that?!"
Pumpkin pie is my favorite, but I learned through another creator's poll that lots of folks think it's gross. Strawberry rhubarb is my favorite fruit pie, and my other big faves are French Silk and pecan.
For tradition's sake, I gotta go with pumpkin pie. That is, when I'm getting together with family/friends. But, for example, the day after Thanksgiving...if I'm cooking something up for myself, then I'm going with rhubarb/strawberry pie.
And a slight confession. Currently, I have a banana cream pie in my freezer and I'm going to try and pick up an apple pie tomorrow. Some might say I have a problem. And to that, I would agree. I don't have enough pie.
😁🥧
My grandmother always made a strawberry rhubarb. I'm sure it's my dad's favorite, and he misses it.
If... if you need help finishing up all that pie before it goes bad, I can give you my address and you can ship the banana cream pie to me 😁
My favorite is chocolate meringue pie, but not everybody else's. No homemade like my mother used to make, old fashion receipt going back to my grandmother. Also, you try mincemeat pie.
As someone who lived in what is called a "dry" county as a child i was used to going to a grocery store and not seeing alcohol
Whip eggs with melted butter over low heat until smooth then gradually add molasses whilst stirring until thickened to the desired consistency and you will have a better tasting pecan pie filling made entirely from pronounceable ingredients.😁👍
I’m going to try this! I’m over the corn syrup 🤕
I like to make 1/2 the middle & twice the pecans! Can’t wait thx!!!
@@andreabryant9979
Yeah, most pecan pies are glorified sugar delivery systems with pecan decoration. UMD's idea sounds like an interesting experiment, if you load it up with pecans (or walnuts, which are way cheaper here in California - toast them first).
I do a similar kind of modification to the Toll House cookie recipe off the Nestle's chocolate chip bag: replace half the white sugar with brown sugar(and maybe use less sugar overall; enough to bind all the creamed butter is sufficient), whole wheat flour, cinnamon/nutmeg (sometimes powdered ginger), lots of nuts, sometimes some orange zest, and a LOT of Myers Dark Rum. My modified toll house cookies are denser, chewier, more textured than the official kind; there’s a lot more going on, flavor and mouthfeel-wise. Plus all the rum.
Official recipes; they're just the starting point.
@@aquilapetram
The tollhouse cookies sound delicious.
For about the past 10 years, I’ve been making pecan pies with real maple syrup.
Pecan prices aren’t too bad around here. I live on the northern Gulf Coast. You can still see pecan orchards around here.
Some pies I would say that you can warm up in a microwave but mostly they are usually served at room temperature. Some are even kept colder in the fridge. Warming that chocolate one probably did not help it.
Pumpkin for sure. second would be blueberry. In northern Illinois every wally world around me sells alcohol.
I love all pies! My favorite dessert! With whipped cream or vanilla bean ice cream!
All right! Who spilled the beans to Europe about the existence of Thanksgiving?!
Those darn globalists!
I think the chocolate pie was intended to eat at room temp, not heated up. You might like it at room temp. Nice reaction!
Even better if it's a little cold, especially with the whipped cream. Heated whipped cream - that sounds nasty.
Diane, you've probably heard Patty Labelle songs before. She's a famous R&B singer who has been around since the 60's. If you've ever seen the movie Moulin Rouge, she was in a group called Labelle, and they sang the original version of the song "Lady Marmalade" which you may have heard before
I've never had a store bought pie during the holidays. My mother would NEVER allow that at her table LOL
There's store-bought from the grocery store (or Walmart? Commenter, *please*), and then there's store-bought from a bakery/restaurant that knows how to make pies. I used to cook at a local restaurant called FatApple's (originally Fat Albert's back in the 1970s, until Bill Cosby sued them for trademark violation) that has an awesome bakery, making burger buns, pies and pastry daily for the restaurant and for takeaway. For decades now, when I go over to my brother's house for Thanksgiving, the price of my entry is an olallieberry pie from FatApples (olallieberry is a hybrid of blackberry, raspberry, loganberry and a few others in that family). I get two: One to bring for the communal dinner, and one to stick in the refrigerator all for myself.
The state of Georgia is the largest producer of pecans in the world. In fact, 1/2 of the global crop is grown here. Yes, pecans are a nut grown on a very large tree. Pecan trees are similar to walnut trees but much larger. At least they are larger than our native black walnuts.
Apples are harvested in the fall they are definitely appropriate for Thanksgiving as pie.
You appeared to like this bigger pecan pie better than the mini pecan pie with crushed pecans from Walmart you taste-tested about two or three years ago.
Apple pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
When on one of your trips, you should try a slice of chocolate cream pie from a restaurant. I guarantee you'll like it a lot better than the one you ate in the video. Or, if someone can get some Graham crackers (for crust) and a package or two of Jell-O pudding and pie filling to you in Europe, you could make your own. Even if you don't make it very well, I bet you'll like it.
2 more votes for pecan pie and rhubarb pie. I think I also heard somewhere that the cherries in Ireland are the more bitter variety, so that maybe cherry pie doesn't sound very appealing to an Irish person, but they are very good too.
@@EddieReischl I looked into this when I was trying to figure out why the sweet cherries we usually get in California produce markets don’t make especially good pies; they tend to get mushy. Turns out that for pie making, you use sour cherries, not sweet ones; you then adjust the sugar content for taste, adding enough sugar that the filling gels properly when cooked. The biggest supplier of sour cherries in the US is Michigan(!), which I understand produces no sweet cherries at all; everything they grow is canned and sold for things like pie filling (there’s also a terrific Hungarian cold cherry soup you can make with these cherries).
Washington State also produces sour cherries; the Montmorency variety is the one you’re most likely to see in a produce section, although I’ve never seen them for more than a week or two each year.
Cherries, almonds, apricots, peaches, plums and nectarines are all in the same family. If you’ve ever seen a recipe that calls for bitter almonds, the kernel of a peach or plum pit will be a practical substitute.
Mincemeat pie is one that we have at Thanksgiving every year.
We used to have mincemeat pies at Thanksgiving too, WAAAYYYY back in the day. Can't imagine a mincemeat pie from Walmart would be good though. They didn't even have molasses in their pecan pie...
@barkingmonkee we usually get ours from a local grocery store but they aren't making them this year. My sister found a can of mincemeat at WinCo and will make one.
@@larrywright6214 Yum, remember to save room for dessert and have a great holiday!
Thanks! You too. Enjoy your family and friends and thank God for each of them.
My family occasionally makes Mincemeat Pie for Christmas.
Just wait until you try Lemon Meringue pie!!! DO NOT HEAT IT UP!! 😂
@@dovah69_5 There’s a restaurant on the wharf in Southwest Harbor, Maine that has both lemon meringue pie AND lemon chiffon pie. In a meringue, the egg whites are spread on the top of the lemon custard and baked; in a chiffon, the whipped egg whites are blended into the lemon custard, making the whole pie talller and airier. I’ve never much liked the texture of meringue; the lemon chiffon is awesome.
Chocolate pie should be cold 🥶!
One of my favorite pies that grandma used to make is Mock Apple Pie. It is made with Ritz crackers, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, lemon zest and butter. There is something in the combination of ingredients that makes it taste just like real apple pie, in fact her Mock Apple was better than her real apple pie.
Pecan pie is probably my top for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin is good too. There is a local pie called Derby Pie that I also love. It's close to pecan pie but is made with walnuts and chocolate chips.
Sounds great! 🥧
Love me some Derby pie!!!!
We always had about 10 different pies at Thanksgiving. All homemade and 1000 times more flavor than store bought. Some pies you never ever heat up like choclate (that would be a disaster....ewww). Vinegar pie tastes like lemon pie, no joke. Always had pecan, strawberry, pumpkin, dutch apple, lattice apple, choclate, cherry, and three or four surprise flavors. Pecan and Dutch apple were my favorites. At Christmas we have about 50 different homemade candies. So much joy, family, and thankfulness. In college we would buy giant homemade pies for $10 around 2005 and ate them for breakfast all week long (for $10). Apple pie makes a good breakfast, just a little sweet.
Thanks for trying them Diane!
You are so welcome! 🥧
Paula Dean Pecan pie with bourbon and chocolate!
Pumpkin is my jam. I'm thankful for you and your face Diane.
Yes, she does have a beautiful face, doesn't she?
oooof..I love how she doesn't want to go to a liquor store but is instantly distracted by the pecan pie. I will marry her one day
Think of pecan pie as a treacle pie with pecans on top.
2 and 1/2 thumbs up for the Augustus Gloop reference.
Charlie Harper would Approved this...🤓🤣🤣
My favorite pie is with berries. Blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, etc. There is a blackberry/raspberry pie in my oven right now!
My county, Harford, Maryland, has made it illegal to sell alcohol in supermarkets.
Thanks Diane for the Shout Out. Happy Thanksgiving! Good Shout Outs Brian and Tim. The good thing about Wal-Mart is there's so many varieties of pie. some are in the bakery and some are in the freezers with the ice cream. Some pies are even chocolate and candy bar flavors. Did You know There's a pie called millionaire pie?
millionaire pie it's made with whip cream, pineapple, chopped pecans, and graham cracker crust. Cheesecakes are have graham cracker crust. I got that at furrs cafeteria the menu had all eat of food and desserts it's really good. You oughta try it sometime the furrs recipe is online.
@@rickeycarey4556I have never heard of that kind if pie, but I say, it sounds so good! Thanks for the recommendation!