Proposed Chocolate Pudding Pie (From Scratch)*
Preheat oven to 350ยฐF. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, process 2 packages honey graham crackers (total: 2 1/4 cups) until they resemble fine crumbs. Add 5 tablespoons sugar and 10 tablespoons melted butter (unsalted) and pulse to combine. Using your fingers, press the mixture into a 9-inch pie dish. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool. Make this chocolate pudding, then pour into prepared crust. Chill for at least 3 hours (and up to 24) and top with freshly whipped cream.
This is so funny. But perhaps sadly I can totally relate to the one who wrote the questionnaire. I am always wary of people bringing โnewfangledโ things to my Thanksgiving table. I like Thanksgiving one way and that is the way Iโve been having it my whole life!
This is fantastic! I am expecting some similar reactions when I make some changes to the pumpkin pie this year. Gave me a giggle thinking about it. ๐
Sadly, Iโm one of those people who laments the lack of plain pumpkin pie whenever people get creative with the pumpkin cheesecakes and the pumpkin bread puddings. However, I love a good chocolate cream pie, and save it for Christmas, when our family is more flexible about the menu. Love the one from Gourmet, Feb. 2004 (only I use a regular pie crust, because thatโs what we like). The pudding is to die for, and (shhhhh) beats Grandmaโs Jello pudding pie hands down.
This is so cute and awesome. My mom and I always do a non-traditional dish or two on Thanksgiving, and it proves to be a risky maneuver every year (to say the least). This year I am changing up the yams and making my favorite smoked scalloped sweet potatoes that I found a few months ago, and it has yet to do anything but WOW the people we have made it for!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/smoked-chile-scalloped-sweet-potatoes-recipe/index.html โฆ. I will let you know how it goes ๐
This sounds so good! In our family we always have two desserts โ one traditional pumpkin pie and one chocolate concoction. I am not a pumpkin pie lover and a cousin in the family is not a chocolate lover (seriously?), so everyone wins.
Normally I fear change in life in general. But at Thanksgiving I welcome it, I love it when people get crazy with the side dishes.
I love the application form. As one of 6 kids in an ever growing family we need something like this :). We have wars over the amount of butter in the mashed potatoes. Is there a governing body for Thanksgiving?
I have never posted before โ even after Iโve made many of your dishes to rave reviews from my family (including beef/broccoli stir fry last night.) But chocolate cream pie has driven me to it.
Farmstead in St. Helena, CA has taken the classic chocolate cream pie to another level with an easily adaptable technique. They add a layer of melted, hardened chocolate between a flakey graham cracker crust and the chocolate mousse/pudding. That one simple step makes for a truly outrageous pie. I have been dying to try it.
Since my mother doesnโt accept any applications for new recipes at all, I always make a follow-up Thanksgiving dinner in early December. We invite a few friends over and have a turkey meal, take two โ using all of the recipes that I want to try. Its a win win.
HILARIOUS!
This just made me โsnort laughโ quite loudly. We were actually talking this very morning about this issue! Our family is beyond obsessive about the dishes that are shared for our annual holiday meals and any change to the well versed menu is met with fierce resistance. Think pitchforks and flaming torches! If we ever show up with something that is not immediately recognized as the standard fare, we are met with heavy glares of distain and contempt. This year, just for fun, I will print your post and put it on the Thanksgiving banquet table right next to the new dish of roasted brussel sprouts, grapes, and walnuts that I will be smuggling in UNDER the pumpkin cheesecake. lol Blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours!
This is so funny! Our thanksgivings are not very traditional but I love this questionnaire!
My husband hates the usual pies, so Iโve made this chocolate cream pie for the last few years. It is really amazing: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Cream-Pie-109139 (oh, I see someone above also makes it)
My family was skeptical at first but now we all like it.
This is one of the best food blog posts Iโve read in a very, very long time! In fact, it could sum up family holidays in one sentence: โmom. itโs not about you. itโs about pie.โ
Can you post a pdf or word doc of this? I need to adapt it to our family.
Great post โ it made me laugh out loud! In Australia we have taken to Halloween but sadly Thanksgiving goes almost unnoticed! time to change that! I no longer have my mum alive which makes me love this even more. May we long celebrate mothers and their ability to pull together a family celebration!
Ha! Love it. Looks delicious too.
Love.this.post.
waitta minute. WHAM! isnโt still popular?
Hilarious. this is pretty much how my โplanningโ discussion on my husbandโs thanksgiving menu went.
Pie looks yummy too ๐
Hysterical! I laughed out loud at-โdoes it possess any trait that might be described as odd or creativeโ because that is exactly why I have been making the same apple pie and deviled eggs for the past decade when I really just want to break out something different! I think I need this application for my grandmother.
PURE GENIUS. (I couldnโt resist sharing it on my blog, as it is incredibly, *incredibly relevant =)).
BRAVA! God I love this blog.
This is hilarious! But itโs nice that your mom can sort of laugh at herself for resisting change. My MIL is just like that except for the laughing part โ itโs more of a passive-agressive insistence on keeping things just as they are, and any new additions or changes to the traditions are met with deafening silence. We just fill in the laughter for her afterwards ๐
โFor the kidsโ is code for, โfor the grownups while watching the latest episode of Bones once the kids are in bed,โ right?
Fantastic.
And have I ever told you how many compliments I get for my bumper sticker (Make Dinner Not War) here in Los Angeles? At least five times a day!
LOVE it! My turn to host TG this year and I was terrified to tell my extended family that I was banishing all those bland root vegetable purees and mashes (except mashed potatoes โ Iโm not a heathen!) and the onions in cream sauce for a large pan of roasted root vegetables! However, they completely surprised me with their enthusiasm!! Now, it better turn out okayโฆ.