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[Iowa Granny]

Do you recall a Pumpkin Dip being posted here last year?

You dip Ginger Snaps in it,,, sort of a Dessert Dip.

[Timeout]

I'm a little peeved at Martha right now. I guess my problem is minimal compared to hers, but she sure ticked me off.

I have been making her Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie for years. My sister asked for the recipe this year. I had it in a Word doc that, for some reason, she couldn't get in her email. So I told her to go to the website and print it from there. I then sent her an email with all my notes and small changes based on my own experience with the recipe.

Pie in oven, she called this morning with some questions and nothing was making sense. I finally went to the web site, found the recipe by the exact same name, and darn if it wasn't a different recipe! Somewhere over the years they've changed it. Very different ingredients! And the cooking instructions were totally different. So, of course, the personal notes I'd sent along were confusing her even more!

It made me mad that I've been directing people to that recipe on her website with my personal endorsement. They should have changed the name when they changed the recipe or at least put up a note that it had changed. I hope her pie is good...I'm sure it will be. But it's NOT the pie I endorsed and that's embarassing.

I sent Martha Stewart Living a "tart" little note.

[daisyscarlett]

Cooking for your maid, now that is funny! I used to clean before the cleaning lady arrives but I have gotten over that, lol.

I remember that you posted this recipe previously on one of the recipe threads and there was positive feedback on it. But the timing was always off for me (shopping already done etc). Will work out good for me this time as I still have one more shopping trip left for odds and ends and I do dread it as the markets have been very busy all week.

[Timeout]

I don't remember that recipe. If you find it, please post here!

Sometimes it seems like the world has turned upside down.
Events are moving at incredible such speed.
-Bush wins, American people aren't sheeple after all.
-Liberals in despair
-Arafat in stable condition after dying in a French hospital.
-No. Korea "regime change" rumored
-Arlen Specter minimized
-Dan Rather deposed

And now National Review editors are calling for Kofi Annan to either resign or be removed!

Pinch me, somebody, I'm dreaming!!!

[lodwick]

Welcome home.

[daisyscarlett]

Welcome Home and Thank you for your service!

As I am sure you know, the Cheneys' are doing great. They were wonderful during the campaign and worked very hard for BC04. Their whole family worked hard and they have a beautiful new grandson too, to go along with their three grandchildren.

Lynne Cheney, center, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), waves with Peter Nostrand, president of Christmas Pageant of Peace, Inc., right, and her grandchildren, from left to right: Elizabeth Perry, 7; Grace Perry, 4; Kate Perry, 10; after they placed the star on the 2004 National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, in Washington. The official lighting of the 40-foot National Christmas Tree will take place on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[mountaineer]

No, I don't remember that pumpkin dip. Could it have been posted on another recipe thread, e.g., carlo's? I would think you could make it something like a fruit dip, blending pumpkin, plain yogurt, powdered sugar and punkin pie spices, though.

[mountaineer]

I guess my problem is minimal compared to hers, but she sure ticked me off.

LOL!

[Iowa Granny]

Yes. Goodness Abounds. Someone on a gardening site I frequent came up with the recipe:

Pumpkin Dip

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups pumpkin puree
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

PREPARATION:

Cream together pumpkin and cream cheese. Add in all other ingredients until well blended. Refrigerate overnight. Serve with gingersnaps and graham crackers.

[Iowa Granny]

Welcome Home. I'm delighted to see you here.

[najida]

I have a real soft spot for the queen. She looks exactly like my late mother( mean EXACTLY...down to the hair-do). I get a misty when I see her.

[They'reGone2000]

Welcome home CC.

VCR alert and/or background "music" for pie baking tonight:

CSPAN 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Wednesday 11/24)

FROM LOS ANGELES: Rush Limbaugh on Politics On Friday, November 19, the Claremont Institute honored Rush Limbaugh with the Statesmanship Award at its annual Winston Churchill Dinner in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Mr. Limbaugh is the keynote speaker and discusses the state of politics in America.

[CheneyChick]

Thanks - it is great to be back. This is a wonderful country and totally worth protecting and fighting for.

I am ashamed to say that I'm ordering turkey dinner from the supermarket this year. Just not sure what is or isn't in the kitchen yet. I'm still stumbling over olive drab duffle bags that need to be unpacked and put away.

I love all the recipes and ideas here. You have no idea how good it is to have "normal" food again!

CC :)

[daisyscarlett]

Your Mom was a lovely and classy looking gal then cauz the Queen is aging gracefully and beautifully, IMO. Was you Mom British?

[daisyscarlett]

Image released by the White House of the 2004 White House Christmas card featuring the Red Room. President and Mrs. Bush highlight the Red Room of the White House in the 2004 White House Christmas card. Designed by Cindi Holt of Fort Worth, Texas, the original oil on canvas painting shows the room decorated for the holidays with a cranberry topiary and a glowing fireplace. (AP Photo/White House)

[najida]

Yep, my mom aged beautifully. There is a bit of British blood on her mother's side (the taint in Austrian bloodline ;) )

[Timeout]

The Christmas card is RED! Most appropriate color, I must say.

Anyone seen the prez lately?
Hmmmmm. Might he be sneaking off somewhere? (I keep thinking of Laura saying last year how much she wanted to visit Afghanistan.)

[lodwick]

I thought that he was in Crawford with King Carlos.

[bill1952]

Naw, thats just a caution to those San Fran Libs that might still eat meat. :)

[Timeout]

Well, my little tussle with Martha Stewart gets more interesting. It also presents me with a dilemma.

They swear they have NEVER changed the recipe and it's the same as has been on the site and in her cookbook since 1999. But my recipe is in a Word document and it's not typed...it's obvious that it's copied and pasted from the website (it has columns and rows). It has Martha Stewart's name on top--in the exact same green font as her website. I don't even have that font color. Within the recipe I had originally typed in the web address, but that was the only change I made. It's obviously pasted.

So now I have a mystery. Did my Word document get changed and is it not really the pie I've made for years? Now I don't know which recipe to use.

Does anyone by any chance have links to last year's holiday recipe threads? I can't remember if we did both Christmas and Thanksgiving. But I'm pretty sure I've posted the recipe on one of our threads. Better yet, did anyone copy my pie recipe???

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(I'll say this for Martha...the same-day response to my email was excellent! Maybe she has some extra time on her hands these days.)