So, I tried experimenting with pumpkin this week. One of the recipes (which wasn't mine) was pretty fantastic, and the other two (which were mine) didn't turn out so well.Who knew that, in order to dry pumpkin seeds, you can't lay them out on a paper towel or else they will dry TO the paper towel, making them impossible to get off without pieces of the paper towel sticking to them? Not me! And are you supposed to eat the whole pumpkin seed, or just the seed part inside? (I'm asking a question here..because I quite honestly don't know the answer.) Either way, the way I roasted them just did not do them justice. I tried one batch with some butter, sugar, cinnamon, all spice, and cloves - that turned out a little bit greasy and chewy, and not exactly too tasty. I tried another batch with olive oil, salt (and way too much of it, might I add!), paprika, and cayenne pepper - and it still didn't turn out well, either, like I had hoped. I had high hopes for the pumpkin seeds...and you know what? They let me down.
Cutting a pumpkin takes time...and a lot of muscle. I'm probably lucky I didn't slice my fingers off. I know I'm not the only one who has done this: tried to cut a pumpkin and gotten the knife stuck halfway through, so I banged the pumpkin/knife on the cutting board and voila, it splits apart! Not the greatest method...not even a good method...and especially not a safe method...but it worked, and I still have all of my digits to show for it. It took forever to cut it up into pieces that I could use. And what I didn't use, (which was about 3/4ths of the pumpkin) I cut up and boiled, thinking that the skin would "fall off" (like I had read), making it easier to work with. Such was not the case. Or maybe it was just a user error. I don't know. Either way, hopefully I'll have better luck next year!
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