Thanksgiving is pie time

Gentle reader, we have have several options for dessert on thanksgiving. I present them in no particular order.

1) Pumpkin pie bought from Safeway. Served with Kool-whip (lite) refrigerated dessert topping.

Pros: Cheap. Pretty Tasty. Boys will want seconds of kool-whip. Finn will try and eat it without using hands.

Cons: Questionable nutritional value. Will cause foodie friends to throw organic, free range, hormone free eggs at your house.

2) Pumpkin cranberry pecan upside down cake from Trader Joes. Served with dreyers vanilla ice cream.

Pros: Relatively inexpensive. Tasty if you like pecans and cranberries. Conor will eat seconds. Both boys will demand more ice cream. Dreyers is a locally founded business.

Cons: Not, strictly speaking, pumpkin pie. Could result in dire vengeance from ghosts of our pilgrim forefathers. Also, Finn doesn't like pecans. Or cranberries. Dreyers is now owned by gigantic multinational corporation that probably celebrates thanksgiving by stuffing, roasting and devouring babies and kittens.

3) Homemade pumpkin pie (made by blog author).

Pros. Commencement of thanksgiving feast will not be delayed by lengthy thanks for delicious looking pie.

Cons. Meal participants might feel obligated to try said pie.

4) Homemade pumpkin pie (made by Lisa)

Pros. Tasty, organic, and so perfect that a glimpse of its radiant orangeness provides the US RDA in vitamin D, and one small slice cures rickets and scrofula.

Cons. None for blog author, except perhaps weight gain.

In the spirit of generosity that is thanksgiving, we the Chandler/Hennessey household pledge to eat whatever dessert is chosen by the readership of this blog. We will also post pictures, and, if this proves succesful, we will open the floor to those who care to debate the superiority of cranberry sauce in a can over chunky, relishy cranberry sauce with stems and actual berries.

Cupcakes for Katrina

Not the hurricane. The muse of this blog is not of the old fashioned offering-baked-goods-to-placate-the-weather-gods persuasion - though if she knew of some way to ease the tension building in the Hayward fault by lubricating the tectonic plates with buttercream frosting, I'm sure she would give it a try. The pictured cupcakes were for our friend Katrina, who took them to a baby shower. What I was not aware of until informed by Lisa was that she drove from South SF to the nickel-dime to pick them up, then took them to Millbrae for the shower. I'm pretty sure she did this because, in addition to liking cupcakes, she really, really loathes the environment.

Katrina is very cool, despite her eco-hating ways (and not just because she praised Lisa's cupcakes effusively). This can be deduced from the fact that (i) she has a baby who can barf on cue (see attached photo - not taken after cupcake consumption, as far as I'm aware, anyway), (ii) she has an encyclopedic knowledge of early 90's hip hop, and can rap large parts of "Mind's playin' tricks on me" by the Geto Boys, and (iii) she attended the recent NKOTB reunion concert and enjoyed it in a non-ironic manner. Good things all.