Christian and I made our family's famous Pankey Pumpkin pie. It a special recipe from my great grandmother Nettye Pankey. My grandmother still makes them for the holidays. They always make me think of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now this isn't your traditional pumpkin pie. This is a custard pumpkin pie. It is more creamy, with a little less spice. I don't know that I have ever eaten any other kind of pumpkin pie...it just wouldn't be right.
There is a funny story about Chris' introduction to Grama and Pankey Pumpkin Pie. Once, before we had the boys, we were eating Sunday after church lunch with Grama at her apartment. It came time for desert and she gave Chris the largest piece of pumpkin pie. As the newest member to the family, it was a kind of an honor, really. Well Chris didn't eat all his pie (sacrilege in our family). When asked why he didn't eat it all, he said he just wasn't hungry enough for the whole piece. Grama's reply was "Well next time you don't get a whole piece." Now in Chris' defense, he usually doesn't finish everything on this plate. He will NEVER make that mistake again. When he accepts a pie of Pankey Pumpkin pie, he finishes it.
To this day when Grama is around she will make the comment that he doesn't get a whole piece of pie, he can only have half a piece.
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