Thankspiesgiving

All your Thanksgiving Day favorites. In pie form.

Turkey pot pie with stuffing crust

Turkey is still the star of the event, but reimagined in pie form! Turn tradition on its head by topping creamy pot pie studded with onions and mushrooms with your favorite stuffing.

Green bean casserole with mashed potato crust

One classic side dish (green bean casserole) gets paired with another (mashed potatoes) for a shepherd’s pie topped with French fried onions.

Apple mallow yam bake with puff pastry crust

Apples and yams are crowned with buttery puff pastry cut into leaf shapes and dotted with marshmallows. Apple mallow yam bake was a tradition in my house growing up, updated here for Thankspiesgiving.

Pumpkin pie with ginger snap crust

Cookies crumbled in the food processor form a crust that is surprising, and surprisingly delicious. Mixing up the crusts you use in your pies is a key step to keeping a range of flavors on your Thankspiesgiving table.

How to celebrate your own Thankspiesgiving

We’re purists (Thanksgiving Day only!), but I’ve become less dogmatic on that requirement.

If giving up a whole bird and all the trimmings and traditional side dishes is a bridge too far, Thankspiesgiving can be adapted for leftovers from the big day.

Assemble individual dishes into pie form for Friendsgiving or Black Friday. It works perfectly since Thankspiesgiving pies are all built on these traditional bases.

Make each day count by putting your health first.

Healing starts here.

Step one: Pie pans

Thankspiesgiving can seem like a great idea until you realize you need a ton of pie pans.

• You can buy aluminum pans that you can recycle, but going with reusable is best in my opinion.
• The first few years I didn’t have enough pie pans so I improvised with every deep dish I had. I used oven safe chili bowls for personal pot pies, and casserole dishes for pies without a bottom crust.
• I saw a brilliant LA baker make a double crust fruit pie in a rectangular sheet pan with a tall lip on Instagram, so there no limit to creativity.
• Once committed to Thankspiesgiving, I started picking up Pyrex pie pans from thrift stores for a few dollars apiece. They stack well, so they don’t take up too much room in the cabinets the rest of the year.
  

5. Don’t fret about doing it all

Instead of rolling out pie crusts from scratch, I’ve spent (way too much) time researching the best premade crusts.

• Pillsbury has good one that comes in rolls two-to-a-box in the refrigerator section. It won American’s Test Kitchen’s taste-test of best premade pie crusts.
• There are also differences in puff pastry . Trader Joe’s sells puff pastry made with real butter during the holidays only, so it’s a good idea to stock up when you find it in the freezer section. There’s a French brand that does this as well if you aren’t near a Trader Joe’s.
  

2023

• Turkey pot pie (be sure to triple the butter in this recipe) with stuffing crust
  
• Apple mallow yam bake with puff pastry
  
• Zucchini and corn pie in orzo crust
  
• Mashed potatoes with stuffing crust
  
• Apple pie
  
• Tequila pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust
  
• Sausage crusted quiche with hash brown crust for breakfast
  

2022

• Turkey pot pie with stuffing crust
  
• Apple mallow yam bake with puff pastry crust
  
• Green bean tart on filo dough
  
• Apple pie
  
• Pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust
  
• Quiche for breakfast
  

2021

• Apple mallow yam bake with puff pastry crust and broiled marshmallows
  
• Green bean casserole with mashed potato crust
  
• Turkey pot pie with stuffing crust
  
• Tater tot pie with bacon lattice crust
  
• Apple pie
  
• Pumpkin pie
  
• Quiche for breakfast
  

2020

• Cranberry kumquat marmalade tarts
  
• Turkey pot pie with stuffing crust
  
• Apple mallow yam bake with puff pastry crust
  
• Individual green bean casserole tarts
  
• Apple pie with cinnamon roll crust
  
• Pumpkin pie
  
• Quiche for breakfast
  

2018

• Individual turkey pot pies with mashed potato crust
  
• Pumpkin pie
  
• Apple mallow yam bake with filo crust
  
• Apple pie
  
• Quiche for breakfast
  

2017

• Individual turkey pot pies
  
• Apple mallow yam bake in crust
  
• Apple pie
  
• Pumpkin pie
  
• Quiche for breakfast
  

The rules

There are no rules to Thankspiesgiving (except for the one about everything being in pie form).

Make it your own

Our spread reflects our family favorites. Make your Thankspiesgiving table a canvas for your tastes, traditions and creativity.

Experiment

Every year our recipes change because of something we learned the past year. Like this time when we used cookie cutters to cut pie crust into little turkeys.

Do your research

Search for articles about how to turn things into pie, like this, this, and this. NYC baker Dominique Ansel did something similar called PIE NIGHT and shared his menu on Instagram.