Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Better late than never...


This past Saturday I helped my daughter and exchanged student carve pumpkins. Actually, I cleaned out the guts, and boiled down the pumpkin and roasted the seeds while they carved the pumpkins.

18 comments:

  1. wow!! those are some impressive pumkins!

    lots and lots of creativity and some soft pumkpins and goot tools i'd wager :)

    and roasted seeds. yum!

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  2. I'm smelling the use of stencils. ;-) Add 'roasted pumpkin seeds' to my list of things I have yet to experience.

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  3. I carved a pumpkin this year but it wasn't up to my normal standards. Somehow, I just knew spending three hours carving wouldn't work with a five month old craving for attention. I'll have to post a picture of mine soon.

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  4. Yes, Keda, I confess, they had tools. And yes Murf, I confess, they used stencils. But they did the carving while I took care of the pumpkin! Ed, I can't imagine spending three hours with a pumpkin, I'd be too afraid I'd become a bumpkin by then.

    btw, roasting pumpkin seeds is easy--wash and dry seeds between paper towels, spray a thin coating of oil on a cookie sheet, roast at 300 degrees or so until they're dry and crunchy (I think I did them for 1.5 hours)

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  5. Murf, I use very little salt

    Ed, do you put the beer on the seeds? or drink it as the seeds roast?

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  6. Actually I go through a six pack about once a year, when eating salty pumpkin seeds, a beer tastes kind of good. Other than that, I just drink one while grilling something that takes a long time to cook.

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  7. What a manly thing for you to do, Ed. I can't believe you actually admit to salting something.

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  8. does that make me a whimp Murf, for not salting things (at least I'll be a whimp without high blood pressure!)

    Ed, you must not be drinking good beer if you just drink a 6 pack in the fall and a few others the rest of the year. This time of the year, I go mainly for porters and stouts. In the summer, I usually "lighten up" with an IPA. Almost all of my beer comes from either Arcadia or Bells Breweries.

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  9. To the lush with the really clean right ear (a.k.a Sage) - That doesn't make you a wimp but I would question your cooking since you seem to like blandness. ;-) Also, the use of salt doesn't always mean that one has/will have high blood pressure.

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  10. I like these carved pumpkins. They're beautiful even if they did use stencils. Great job!

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  11. Okay yours looks a bit nicer than my old fashion random cut monster!

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  12. Murf, no one ('cept you) has ever accused me of bland cooking. I use salt, but only sparingly. I have quite a collection of hot sauces and spices.

    Tim, thanks

    Deana, I didn't carve them, if it would have been me, there would be triagle eyes and a round nose and a snaggled-tooth mouth.

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  13. Is everyone a professional pumpkin carver?!?!? Lol, I remember carving a pumpkin in elementary school. But I was happy I got a recognizable face. These two jack-o-lanterns are simply striking.

    Seems like a wonderful group activity.

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  14. Having a collection doesn't mean that you use them. ;-)

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  15. Wow! VERY impressive! Those tiny little holes are hard to make.
    Any special recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds, or just plain ole roasted?
    Chana
    www.bunnyburrow.com

    (LOOK! I remembered to put my name!)

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  16. Here from Michele.

    Those are two impressive pumpkins... especially the one with the moon and haunted house....

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