Squash Pie

Every year my Grandma and I make pies for Thanksgiving. Our families favorite is squash pie. It is similar to pumpkin pie only better! We usually make tons of squash pies and then sometimes a few other kinds. The kids love helping as well. It has become one of our favorite traditions.

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Traditional Squash Pie

from the Kitchen of Rachel Marshall

-4 eggs, slightly beaten

-3 cups prepared Squash (winter)

-1 1/2 cup Sugar

-1 tsp salt

-2 tsp Cinnamon (or a little more)

-1/4 tsp Ginger (ground)

-1/4 tsp cloves

-2 (12 oz) cans evaporated milk

Mix sugar, salt, and spices together.

Beat Eggs.

In a large kettle combine. Eggs, squash and milk.

Add sugar mixture, mix well and cook over med heat to thicken a little.

Pour into unbaked shell. Bake 15 minutes @ 425 degrees.

Turn oven to 350 degrees and bake 40 to 50 minutes or until done.

(When a knife inserted near center comes out clean.)

Cool. Serve with whipped cream.

makes 2 (9 inch) pies

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

I love it when I am able to get up and get dinner in the crockpot before going to work. It is so nice knowing that I will come home and dinner will be ready and I won't have to worry about what I'm making or getting it done in time before the kids have to be somewhere.

This is one of our favorites-Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup.
The secret ingredient to this is the Grandma's Egg Noodles. (find them in the frozen section of your grocer)
I don't have a specific set in stone recipe. I just kind of add things until it seems right.
Use the following
Chicken Broth
Sliced Carrots
Diced Potatoes
Chopped Onion
Slice Celery
Cooked Chicken-Chopped Up
Pepper
Season All Salt
Grandmas Egg Noodles

We eat it plain or with breadsticks or sometimes we serve it over mashed potatoes. You can cook it in the crockpot or on the stove. If you do it in the crockpot you add the noodles the last few hours, or boil them and add them at the end.

Fresh Peach Pie + Recipe

Summer isn't over until we have had at least one fresh peach pie. A few weeks ago my sister Mandy came down and her, my Grandma and I made fresh peach pie. It is so good.

Here is the recipe:

PEACH PIE

You need a pie shell. Either a store bought or homemade and it needs to be cooked. (We made out shells)

1 large cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Mix these two together and spread in the bottom of a baked pie shell.

3 peaches, mashed
1 cup sugar
3 TBSP. cornstarch
1/2 cup water

Bring these preceding ingredients to a boil and cook until think. Slice peaches into shell on top of cream cheese. Pour cooked mixture over peaches. Makes 2 Pies

(This is my Grandma Rachel Marshall's Recipe)