A Perfect Pie Night

The Thanksgiving holiday was pretty much just four-and-a-half days of bliss. Bliss and exhaustedness. Bliss and exhaustedness and yummy food. Bliss and exhuastedness and yummy food and my favorite people and... well, you get the idea. It was such a relief to just forget about work and enjoy the four-day weekend!

Pie Night - One of the best parties of the year. What's that you say? You've never heard of Pie Night? Pie Night is based on the idea that on Thanksgiving Day there are so many other tasty foods to eat the pie doesn't get the attention it deserves. So, we invite friends and family to our house the night before Thanksgiving and only eat pie. It's an excuse to get together and hang out. We love it because a lot of the time it's the only time in the year we see some people! We have friends who have been coming for years and years. There's some debate about how it all got started. My mom claims she found the idea in a newspaper article, but my dad says he came up with it. Either way, it's become a tradition that we all look forward to.

My pies turned out rather well! I could have taken them out a few minutes earlier, but they didn't taste burned. At least, that's what people who tried the pumpkin said. Both of the pumpkin pies I made were nearly gone by the end of the night, even though I didn't have any. (What? Pumpkin isn't my favorite.) I LOVED the pecan pie! I had two slices. What? I'm not selfish! They were small ;o)

Every year people make delicious pies to bring to the party, and this year was no exception. We had lemon merenque, cherry, key lime, mincemeat, razzleberry, coconut cream, rhubarb, strawberry, peanut butter, apricot pineapple, chocolate, cherry cheesecake, and apple, along with the pecan and pumpkin. The secret to Pie Night is to come at the beginning, because that's when you have the best selection. Most people just take a taste of a bunch and then come back later for more of their favorites if there's any left. I tend not to be terribly brave, so I ate the pecan, cherry, and rhubarb, but I quite liked the peanut butter one, too! (Thanks again, Amy!!)

I rarely have more than two or three of my own friends show up to Pie Night, so I cannot decribe how thrilled I was to have fourteen attend this year! It was really fun to hang out with Michelle B, Emily A, Elisa C, the Wadsworth family and Maida's boyfriend Jon, Stephanie M, and Kate and Brandon. Thanks for coming everyone! You really made this the best Pie Night to date.

I took my camera to my parents' house with the intent to take photos of everything. Well, I forgot. So the only photo I got aside from the before-and-after of the pies was one of my brother Aaron and I together. But, hey, it's a good photo of the two of us.



Pie Night is over for another year, and I'm already looking forward to the next one! I would tell everyone to throw a Pie Night of their own, but then they couldn't come to mine! So, I'm claiming you all RIGHT NOW (except those of you who have other plans already). Please come next year! I promise it will be a blast!