Let the Baking Begin!

Woot!

Prep for Thanksgiving has begun in earnest! We’ll have a good 15 or so people here for dinner tomorrow, with another 30 (!) coming for the Festival of Pie later in the day! So, today is all about pie baking! I started by gathering all my tried and true recipes together, I am extra nerdy, so I made a PDF of all of themto share with folks, download it right here: Candys favorite pie recipes

Of course, we had to start with a big list, we did this the other day in the car:

Appetizers

• Pickles
• Olives
• Crudités, (carrot celery cherry tomatoes)
• Ranch, regular and chipotle

Dinner

• Acorn Squash Ravioli with pine nuts, sage and brown butter sauce
• Turkey
• Dressing (Hawaiian bread with apples, sausage & sage)
• Mashed potatoes
• Gravy
• 2 kinds of Cranberry sauce: Mario Batali & Standard from the back of the bag
• Brussel Sprouts w/pancetta, dried cranberries, balsamic vinegar
• Smitten Kitchen Sweet Potato Crispy Sweet Potato Roast
• Peas & Pearl Onions
• Roasted beets with goat cheese
• Carmelized parsnips

 Pies

• Apple
• Cherry
• Mincemeat
• Sweet potato pecan
• Pumpkin (2)
• Sugar Cream
• Derby
• Meyer Lemon Brulee Tart
• Cranberry with Thick Pecan Crumble (Smitten Kitchen Recipe here)

The first step to the baking of the pies is figuring out which pie goes in which pan:

If you want to follow along with me as I bake them all today, take a peek at my Instagram feed. I’ll be back later in the week with a full report on the Festival of Pie. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!