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Hey,

sorry for the delay, 2 jobs, grad school apps, meh...

Anyways, just so you know this is a SWEET POTATO PIE recipe.

first step is the crust:

buy a plane ticket to paris (one way is fine)

go to the cheapest little grocery store you can find and buy a roll of dough and a square pie pan.

since you live in a tiny apartment without an oven and just two hot plates and a sink get a big frying pan going and brown the crust in a pan with some butter (im serious just fry the dough first, but leave it soft enough, so you could still shape the dough a little)

on to the filling:

now you're still in Paris, so even though you dedicated an entire week to finding pumpkin and have gone to every specialty/world food store in the region you come up empty handed, go get some sweet potatoes.

peel and boil in A big pan until mushy mushy mushy

leave just a tiny bit of water in the pan and mix with a healthy amount of butter (either healthy healthy healthy or healthy as in OMG that's like a stick of butter, your call) brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla extract, caramel, basically whatever sweet stuff you have on hand + cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and a little ginger to help cut the sweetness.
this should be thick enough to be a reasonable pie filling.

now here's the tricky part:

you've now got to put your fried dough into the pie pan and try to smush it in there without breaking it and then pour in your sweet potato mush and fold over any excess dough onto the sweet potato so it might look like a giant half sweet potato turnover if you have a lot of dough left over.

THEN put the pie pan (with your nascent pie in it) directly on a hot plate at low temp covered with the giant dinner plate that you've been eating every meal off of for the last 8 months.

Cook this (maybe with marshmallows on top of any exposed sweet potato) until the crust is brown and it seems like something that someone else would consider eating.

For added effect, drink 4-5 bottles of wine with friends before consumption, that's what keeps em coming back

Happy Thanksgiving!

Max