Pumpkin-Pecan Pie

Happy Thanksgiving!
With turkey being served in two days, my thoughts are even closer to one of my favorite pies - pumpkin. I tried this variation a few weeks ago to see if there was a way to successfully combine the overly sweet pecan pie into something I would like as much as my favorite.

Once the pie is ready to be baked, it is essentially a layer of pumpkin pie topped with a layer of pecans, and then the sweet pecan filling:

The pie itself is easy to make - just mix together a half recipe of pecan pie filling:

And use your blender to mix up a quick pumpkin pie filling:

The end result, while delicious, cannot compare to a plain pumpkin pie, at least for me. But I'll probably still make it again to make sure!

Peach and Pecan Upside Down Cake

The last of the summer's peaches, sliced and ready for this recipe:

I took the time to properly arrange the peach slices, but didn't have a good selection of pecan halves on hand, so I used the broken pieces:

There is also pecan, finely ground with spices and flour, mixed into the batter:

Whipping together the batter was the easy part of this recipe, in between all of the arranging, slicing and dicing:

And the resulting batter was thick and rich. I shouldn't tell you this, but I did lick the bowl:

The cake looks sort of unremarkable when it was ready to come out of the oven:

But once it was flipped over...

yum!