i’ve been pretty sick for the past two days- unable to swallow, running a fever and mostly unpleasant to be around.
being cooped up in the house hasn’t helped either, so add a side of cabin fever to the mix.
i’ve been craving pumpkin desserts, pumpkin flavored anything.
so for my one trip to the real world, yesterday i got to go to wal-mart- woot.
filled the cart with ingredients to make pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake.

last night i decided at 1am that i would make a pie.
i food processed some Mi-del animal cookies and butter for the crust
and mixed a basic libby’s filling – substituting milk and cornstarch for the evaporated milk that i had forgotten.
in the oven it went.

then smoke filled the house…

somehow didn’t notice that something had leaked in the oven… oil? grease? butter? who knows, but it was smoking!
this was discovered after attempting to cook it twice and thinking that ikea had ruined my pie with their Swedish smoking pans.

so this morning i made pumpkin pancakes to further fulfill my pumpkin needs

2 c. bob’s redmill all purpose
1 c. pumpkin puree
1 egg
some pumpkin spice plus added cinnamon and ginger
salt
brown sugar
2 tsp b. power and 1 tsp b. soda

and mix it, burn the first two pancakes
make some bacon
and voila!

pancakes ala bunny

next, pumpkin cheesecake.