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I've really started to enjoy carving pumpkins at Halloween recently.
I recently discovered the trick of scraping the insides until they are thin,
which makes carving much easier (my dad just takes out the seeds and
loose material, which leaves lots of material to shove a knife through).

I finally got a tripod and got a night shot of my lit Jack O'Lanterns:

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Does anyone else go nuts with gourds around October?

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Those are pretty!!

You're supposed to scrape the insides out so you can make pie with them...
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Cranberry wrote:Those are pretty!
Thanks! I put the camera on a slow shutter speed with no flash.
I like how it picks up the glow from inside the pumpkins...
then, Cranberry wrote:You're supposed to scrape the insides out so you can make pie with them...
I never gave much thought to the makings of pumpkin pie filling (I just
use a can of the stuff, and schlorp it into a crust). I have also heard
that roasted pumpkin seeds are excellent, but I never remember to
save the pumpkin guts.

Which reminds me, everytime I start scooping out the pumpkin innards,
I hear Linus say "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"
Anybody else have this problem?
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fearfaoin wrote:Which reminds me, everytime I start scooping out the pumpkin innards,
I hear Linus say "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"
Anybody else have this problem?
In all my years as a seasonal pumpkin assasin I've never had a problem with killing a pumpkin. :D
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Not entirely true unless you are growing your own pumpkins. If you buy your pumpkins from a store or the Boy Scouts or whatever the pumpkins are already dead. The trick then is to begin the autopsy before they go rancid.

My mother used to make pumpkin soup - an acquired taste. :P

One of the more interesting pumpkin pies I've had had those little black things in it that people usually stick in hams - capers? capons? - can't remember what they're called.

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djm wrote: The trick then is to begin the autopsy before they go rancid.

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:lol:

I think Scully would be more likely to perform those! :D

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djm wrote::lol:

I think Scully would be more likely to perform those! :D

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Pumpkin soup is good with cornbread.

People are used to pumpkin pie being sweet, so they think pumpkin soup would be too, but it's actually not--it's really really good.
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djm wrote:The trick then is to begin the autopsy before they go rancid.
Speaking of which, I know I heard about a spray for pumpkins that
seals it after carving, so it doesn't dry out or rot so fast. Kinda like
gourd varnish, I guess... Anybody know where I can get me summa
that?

djm wrote:One of the more interesting pumpkin pies I've had had those little black things in it that people usually stick in hams - capers? capons? - can't remember what they're called.
Are you thinking of Cloves, maybe?
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No fuss, no mess....

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:tomato: somehow...I feel a little unfulfilled by the experience offered by that site... :P
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IDAwHOa wrote:No fuss, no mess....
I rather enjoy the fuss, if not the mess.
Though, that was a relatively good virtual pumpkin site.
At least it doesn't try to startle you, or show you a monkey.
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fearfaoin wrote:
IDAwHOa wrote:No fuss, no mess....
I rather enjoy the fuss, if not the mess.
Though, that was a relatively good virtual pumpkin site.
At least it doesn't try to startle you, or show you a monkey.
what's really sad is when we start to expect things like being scared or monkeys... :lol:
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djm wrote:Not entirely true unless you are growing your own pumpkins. If you buy your pumpkins from a store or the Boy Scouts or whatever the pumpkins are already dead. The trick then is to begin the autopsy before they go rancid.

My mother used to make pumpkin soup - an acquired taste. :P

One of the more interesting pumpkin pies I've had had those little black things in it that people usually stick in hams - capers? capons? - can't remember what they're called.

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We have an Italian (northern) cook book with a recipe for a pumpkin risotto. It's really very good. I made it last week while my wife was in Italy but I made it with a butternut squash instead of pumpkin. Yum!
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