{Real Pumpkin} Pumpkin Pie

I was trying to be a little martha stewartish, i guess...... I decided to make a pumkin pie out of a REAL pumpkin!

Here is my little pumpkin.....

I scooped out the strings and seeds, cooked it.....

Scooped out the flesh and mixed till smooth.....

Combined it together with the other ingredients (sweetened condensed milk and a variety of spices) and poured it in the crust.....

Baked it.....

And ENJOYED!!!!

I was worried that it would taste yucky and stringy and pumkiny, but I was pleasently surprised when it was delish!  It was hard for me to believe that it was made from a REAL pumkin.... crazy!  Thats what happens when you decide to try something new, sometimes its strange and yucky and sometimes its great.  I might make another for Thanksgiving this week!!!