Pumpkin again

Does everybody not have canned pumpkin in their groceries - I mean here in the US you can't escape it this time of year, but Australia, Norway, Germany?   

I don't want to belabor the point on pumpkin but I've been getting questions and didn't realize pumpkin pie wasn't a thing everywhere.  

I got on the bandwagon today but not for pie.  I pay so little attention to who is eating it at Thanksgiving I had to actually ask PH if he likes it.  I hadn't noticed after 51years.  Here, leaving pumpkin pie off the dessert table at Thanksgiving is like leaving the turkey off the dinner table.  You just don't.

After many studies by many kitchen people this is still the brand to buy. Of course there are many other brands, some house brands, this isn't the only one but people SAY it's the only one.  And if you are going to give it a go, don't get the can of pumpkin pie mix, get this.  Some purists cook down their own pumpkin.  No thanks. 

And use this recipe.  After many studies by the kitchen people, it's been determined to be the best recipe.  You couldn't prove it by me but there was a lot of excitement last year when someone said to add 3 eggs, not two.  

Inside the label there are also extra recipes that are printed with ink so light I could barely read it so didn't take a photo, and one was for pumpkin bread.  Now I WILL eat that so, since I bought a can to show you I made the bread this morning.

  

I like to put banana bread or any other kind, blueberry muffins, etc., in these little bowl things. They are the perfect size to cut it in half for PH and I and I freeze the extra for another time. They measure exactly the length of my hand.

I also doubled the recipe because I didn't want to be stuck with the leftovers in the can.  The pumpkin bread recipe also called for - you got it - pumpkin spice.  Well, I don't have that so I tossed in cinnamon, a bit of cloves, nutmeg and cardamom.  Why not? I made a full size loaf and these four minis. 

And that's all I'm going to say about pumpkin anything the rest of this year.