Pumpkin Pie

As someone who obsesses about pumpkin pretty much year-round, I have no idea why it's taken me this long to make pumpkin pie from scratch. But it has. Nick bought me a couple of pie pumpkins on a whim last week (isn't he sweet??) so I decided that was the kick in the butt I needed. I followed the directions on this site (baked the pumpkins), and even made my own crust (used a mix of butter and shortening). It was a good way to spend the afternoon, between bouts of data analysis and reading papers, but that's another story... :)