Per my promise, here are links to traditional Thanksgiving desserts for your very special Linking in Lincoln Thursday.  I know, it’s not quite Thursday yet, but it’s close enough.  Plus, who wants to go shopping or who wants to bake on Thanksgiving?  I don’t!  So check out these recipes and make a list for today for pie tomorrow!  So, Linking in Lincoln is a Wednesday this week.

By the way, before I begin, it’s snowing here.  Huge white flakes are flurrying around, sticking on rooftops, but not on ground.  Makes me want hot chocolate or coffee or tea.  Today, my Joy of Cooking calendar states, "It is the American custom to drink coffee or tea with dessert, although the European practice is to offer them afterward, accompanied perhaps by chocolate truffles or amaretti."  Being that I’m in America, I’ll probably serve coffee with our dessert, but maybe we can migrate to the living room later with tea and truffles.  It’ll all depend, of course, on how much food I stuffed myself with at the table.

Moving on, the traditional and coveted Thanksgiving dessert in my family is sweet potato pie.  My grandmother was often accused of buying canned potatoes and pre-made pie crusts.  That was never the case, of course.  She just had a recipe that has been in our family since the 1800s.  She got it from my great-great aunt Mamie.  I still don’t have the recipe, but I’ll get it one day. 

Until I get that recipe (and if I’m in a sharing mood, I’ll share it with you then), I may try one of the recipes I’ve found in the blogosphere.  Being vegetarian and respecting vegans, the first recipe comes from JournalNow.com: Veggin’ Out.  It calls for margarine instead of butter, soy milk and egg substitute. Notes of an Anesthesioboist presents a sweet potato pie recipe that calls for ginger snaps.  Chowhound has a discussion on their board with a few recipes.

But what’s that you say, dear reader?  You prefer pumpkin to potato?  There are many posts on pumpkin pie, too!  The first comes from LAist under a post titled Thanksgiving is Easy Part 4: Pumpkin Pie.  101 Cookbooks has a couple of spiced pumpkin pie recipes.  Straight from the Farm has a candy recipe called Inside Out Pumpkin Pie Truffles.

And before I leave you for the week, I give you The Sietch Blog‘s vegetarian Thanksgiving Menu.

Have A Happy Thanksgiving!