Onion Pie with Bacon 

Yummy Yams 'N Apples
Recipes from the Catch a Falling Star journal entry

The original recipes of these Thanksgiving dinner side dishes were enthusiastically recommended by Mountain Mama, the Big Bear Grizzly's food columnist and adapted to our taste preferences.

"No turkeys here. Yummy yams and onion pie ... oh my! These (recipes) are easy, uncommon, and absolutely delicious. You are already famed as an experienced cook. These will ratchet that rating up several notches."
~ Mountain Mama, Elizabeth Stevens, Big Bear Life

 

Onion Pie with Bacon 
(for onion lovers only)

1 prebaked 9-inch deep dish pie crust
(we used Marie Callender's frozen pie crusts) 

2 large sweet onions, peeled and VERY thinly sliced, precooked briefly, until limp

Salt & black pepper

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

8 bacon slices
(we used Farmer John's regular slices)

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

  • Place half the onions in the prebaked crust and season with salt and pepper.

  • Repeat with the remaining onions.

  • Pour the cream over the onions and arrange the bacon slices on top in lattice fashion, overlapping and folding under as necessary

  • Bake until the bacon is crisp, about 55 minutes.  

  • Cool for 5 minutes then serve.

Yummy Yams 'N Apples
(Mountain Mama says that this is perfect to accompany any autumn main course, but also thinned as a soup)

6 cups water

4 large yams, peeled, rinsed and cut into eighths

2 large tart green apples, peeled, quartered and cored

1/3 whipping cream

2-4 Tbs. butter, cut into small pieces

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/4 toasted walnut pieces

Steam yams until almost soft through.  

  • Add the apples to the steamer and continue until the yams are entirely soft -  maybe 10 minutes more.  

  • Transfer the yams and apples to a food processor and puree until smooth.  

  • Add cream and butter, season to taste with salt and pepper.  

  • Transfer to a warm serving dish and top with the roasted walnuts.

  • (To "dress this up", squeeze it through a pastry tube)

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