Pumpkin Pie Filling Recipe and Sweet Potato Pie Filling Recipe

Pumpkin Pie Filling

1 c. pumpkin

3/4 c. milk

1 ripe banana

Dash of cinnamon and nutmeg (or as much as to your heart's content)

Heat milk and pumpkin together in microwave (since FS was using frozen pumpkin). Mash with banana and spices. Pour into an oven-safe bowl or pan such as aluminum foil or Pyrex or Corningware glass.

Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes or longer depending on caramelization desire.

The pumpkin could also be switched out for sweet potato.

Sweet Potato Pie Filling

FS used a similar recipe to the one above, except that the pumpkin was replaced with sweet potato and the milk was replaced with soy milk. However, sweet potato requires some sugar to be added to it since sweet potato is starchier than pumpkin. Depending on the soy milk you use, the resulting mixture may be fairly thick. Also, this requires no baking (except for the crust, the crust requires baking).

Microwave the sweet potato. Then blend sweet potato, ripe banana, soy milk, and sugar. Add water as need be to adjust consistency and sugar as need be for sweetness.

Close-up of the sweet potato pie with slices of banana pressed into it.

Sweet potato pie.

Later on FS and her mother because lazy about the crust and just had sweet potato pie filling.

Brandy Banana Yogurt Ice Cream

Per usual, Food Scavenger has been on a food craze. There are some flavors that surprise her. Banana, for one. It is after all banana. What could be more innocent, more bland, more there to be tried and gotten over with than banana?

But that is where Food Scavenger was sorely wrong.

For Banana Ice Cream, while not bad-ass like peach or a heady caffeine kick like coffee is truly Food Scavenger's best friend. And the best friend to all ice cream flavors. It's simpatico. It's just that nice.

Brandy Banana Ice Cream
3 bananas
1 c. yogurt
1 c. milk
1/4 c. brandy
2 tbsp. sugar

Soak bananas in sugar and brandy overnight. 

Blend with yogurt and milk.

Pour into ice cream maker per ice cream maker's instructions.

Serve as you please alone in a cone or with an ice cream buddy.

The Banana Ice Cream (the four scoops below) is topped with a scoop of Coffe Irish Cream Ice Cream and chocolate cheerios.

Here, Banana Ice Cream plays second fiddle to the beautiful color of Strawberry Ice Cream (in the forefront on the right) and Peach Ice Cream (in the back, left-hand top corner).

And from the man himself...