It’s that time of year when everything sweet and savory from coffee to soups and pastas to pies are flavored with Pumpkin. In fact I think today is even National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day. Go figure…

While I do like pumpkin bread, and I had some delicious pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese icing this past weekend, I didn’t grow up in a house with a love for all things pumpkin. In fact, I have a confession I have never even tried the famed Starbucks pumpkin spice latte.  We were just not Pumpkin people growing up.

While there was not a Pumpkin Pie to be found around our Thanksgiving table I like to think we had something even better Sweet Potato Pie. It’s a southern thing I know, but I love sweet potatoes in any and every way they could possibly be made, but my favorite has to be my Mom’s…