No, if it's made at all, it is in a 3-4" ramekin type dish, or an aluminum pot pie tin at most. I too also make them usually once a year, or rarely twice, for a family get-together, and even more rarely a "personal pie", even though you wouldn't know it by looking at me (as you have).
I have been heavy most of my life, and have tried most diets out there, and rode the roller coaster of weight control way too many times. I'm convinced that the body has a set weight that it fights to maintain no matter what you do to change it. I decided to get off that roller coaster, and quit fighting myself about 15 years ago, and I have stayed withing about a 10 lb weight range ever since then. Usually on the high end during the fall/winter holidays, and on the low end as spring/summer activities start. I've accepted the fact that I'm never going to be Joe 6 pack, and am unwilling to beat myself up, or deny myself some of the simple pleasures in life trying to attain it. I do try to keep those pleasures balanced and within reason however.
I saw this philosophy, by an unknown author, written down a while back, and found it kind of refreshing and a little liberating.
"Life is short, and isn't meant to come to and end in a pretty, well preserved body, but rather skidding in sideways, totally used up, with a candy bar in one hand, and a bottle of wine in the other proclaiming "Yahoo! what a ride!"
this morning - it'll be less than an inch. But it's a start...
I'll make a couple more for Christmas, and maybe some pumpkin desserts between now and next weekend, which is the beginning of advent.... the penitential season before Christmas, which has by and large been forgotten about.
I'm getting 'back on the wagon' --- it will be interesting to see how much of the memory issues I am dealing with now are "Caregiver Fatigue" versus "SAD --- Standard American Diet" related.
