I rarely take part in Sugar High Friday. Unlike über-dessert chef-bloggers like Keiko or J, I’m much more comfortable cooking savory entrées and main courses. As I’ve written before, dessert is the domain of my darling wife S.
This month’s challenge is being hosted by Elise of Simply Recipes. Elise has asked us to make custard-based desserts. Digging out a recipe from Susan G Purdy’s The Perfect Pie, S prepared a really yummy Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Custard Pie.
I like pies a lot and pumpkin pies especially. It could be partly because of what it represents–wonderfully crisp Fall days and holidays. But it’s also because they just taste so durned good. I love the smooth creamy filling, not too sweet, slightly spiced, contrasted with a good, flaky crust.
S made the pie with a can of organic pumpkin purée that I had bought eons ago. Since then, every so often–only once or twice each week (yah, I know, I can be annoyingly persistent)–I’d drop a hint to S that it would be wonderful if she were to make a pumpkin pie from it.
The pie was delicious. And I think S is happy to have finally fulfilled my (repeated) request. In other words, I have a suspicion that she’s satisfied to have finally shut me up.
P.S. Elise’s round-up is up. Please click here to check it out.
About Aun Koh
Aun has always loved food and travel, passions passed down to him from his parents. This foundation, plus a background in media, pushed him to start Chubby Hubby in 2005. He loves that this site allows him to write about the things he adores--food, style, travel, his wife and his three kids!
