WinCo Foods has a section in the back corner of the store that sells stuff in bulk by weight, like a candy store.
They sell nuts, rice, grain, granola, flour, coffee, sugar, cereal, salt, candy, even dog food, and anything else you can imagine. Oh and you can make your own peanut butter too. It's amazing. I bought a crapload of sugar for like 80 cents. It's definitely the only way to shop.
So I had gone to WinCo to pick up some sugar, backing soda, vanilla, pumpkin, and other stuff I have yet to purchase and amass in my baking needs cabinet. I also saw pre made pumpkin pies for like $2.00, but really, whats the fun in that?!?
Its funny to mention that since I'm new to baking, I lacked a few kitchen tools that are required of bakers, especially if I was taking advantage of WinCo bulk ingredients. I didn't have storage containers for flour, sugar, etc. I first stopped by Linen's N Things hoping to get a great going out of business sale only to be again disappointed that 20% off 20 bucks is 4 dollars, and not a great deal. Then I cruised the mall, Robinson's May, Sears, no containers there. Was this such a hard request? Next I tried Costco, at this point I was getting very thirsty but remembered the Hot Dog place doesn't accept ATM cards, just dolla bills y'all. So anyway they did have a set, but it was all stainless steal and more form than function, plus I have a small kitchen and counter real estate is high so I wanted function more than form. Then I found what I was really looking for, at a place I knew from the beginning that would have what I wanted but was lazy to drive there first, Kitchen Fantasy in the Temecula Target shopping center.
At Kitchen Fantasy I found air locking containers by Oxo, they are easy to open and seal and come in a ton of different sized containers. My rating is five stars.
My whole inspiration to make pies comes from my new KitchenAid mixer, I made homemade pizza dough the night before and I can say with confidence that it was the best pizza I have ever made.
So back to making the pies. Got all the ingredients and was ready to start. First I mixed up all the different spices and ingredients for the filling. The recipe said I can buy pumpkin spice instead of all the spices but again, whats the fun in that, plus I imagine all the different spices will taste better, and really, when am I ever going to use pumpkin spice again, its a waste. So after I mixed all the ingredients, I transferred them to a bowl.
After I made the filling I made the crust from scratch following a recipe from the KitchenAid mixer, Once I made the dough I rolled it into two circles and chilled in the fridge for 15 minutes.
After chilling I put them into two pyrex pie containers that my grandparents gave me when they moved to my moms. Next I poured in the filling.
And put them in the oven, watched a little tv and bam! I've got pie!
Looks really yummy. I'm gonna make some homemade coolwhip later today thanks to Tara (aka soapbox Tara, aka my baking inspiration) and my other friend Ruth (A missionary friend I support who's now living in Indonesia learning the language so that they can share the gospel with people who have never heard of Jesus, learn more here) for giving me some recipes on making coolwhip. I'll let everyone know if they turned out to be delicious.
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