Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Morning, everyone! Yeah, it's early; couldn't sleep.

Hey, Grandma, we missed you! What's been going on?
Hppy, to upload a picture: click on the Go Advanced button when you go to post. Hit the little icon next to the envelope; choose From Computer and select file. That should help you.

Let me know if you can see them!

Good! My instructions must have worked.

I love the kids coming by. Years ago, we had a walking pumpkin.....

I started carving pumpkins a few years ago - I have several more I'm working on for Halloween.

I love pumpkin pie too - I use the old fairy tale style pumpkin which in my opimion makes the very best pie.

Hppy

Funny you should mention pumpkin pie. There was a BIG story on last night's news about how there has been a shortage of pie pumpkins for the past 3 years.

Just wondering: with the mega-monsters, could those be made into pies?

The larger Jack-o-lantern pumpkins don't make very good pie. The meat is tough and hard to process. The traditional pie pumpkin in the US is the Pam. There has been a shotage due to heavy rain during the ripening season which causes them to rot. The pumpkin I like to use is the Cinderella - It's almost all dark orange meat - very few seeds and delicious for all cooking applications - I can usually get two pies and some bread or waffels plus a pot of pumpkin soup out of one.

Peace and Namaste

Hppygraful

Most of the canned pumpkin has been on the shelf for two years - I'll post a link to my pumpkin prep and pie recipe if anyone is interested - just a warning it is labor intensive!

Peace and Namaste

Hppy