The pumpkin thread

Marie5656

Marie5656

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Personally, I do not like anything pumpkin. But I know there are folks who wait all year for this. Do you do the whole pumpkin everything thing?

Since, I do not, I will just give you this funny


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That was so funny Marie! No, I don't get pumpkin spice anything. I think ginger is in the mix along with cinnamon, clove and nutmeg? Or maybe not clove.

Anyway, if people love it so much, why don't they use these spices all year?

I do like nutmeg in eggnog.
 
I don't really care for all the pumpkin spice coffees, teas, cereals, air freshners, candles etc. etc.

However, I do like pumpkin pie. McDonalds has their pumpkin pies out now and they are kind of tasty
 

My husband likes pumpkin pie, so I make him one every Thanksgiving. OK..I take it out of the freezer and bake it, but it is the thought that counts. I bought him some pumpkin pie cookie at the store the other day and he loved them. But even he stops at the pumpkin spice everything. He wants his coffee to smell and taste like coffee.
 
I like pumpkin pie and make it for Thanksgiving and that's it. My daughter and family buy,eat and drink everything pumpkin they can find. Seems to me by the time the holidays come It wouldn't be a treat anymore.
 
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We should be eating more squash dishes. They are very nutritious and full of fiber.

I love them all. Pumpkin is great. My mother grew them. For food. Cut them and roasted them in the oven.

She even breaded and deep fried the flowers which I notice is now a trend.

She would have a heart attack now if she saw how many pumpkins are used for decoration and then sent to the landfill.

That much food could feed a lot of people.

There's a trick to pumpkin pie crust so it doesn't get soggy. Bake it before you put the filling in.
 
I once bought five big pumpkins at a roadside stand for a suspiciously low price (which should have been my first clue.)

Put them on the dining room table and retired for the evening. The next morning I woke up and smelled pumpkin pie, at least what I thought was pumpkin pie.

When I go downstairs, I found out that two of the pumpkins head exploded. And when I say exploded I mean exploded. Pumpkin guts in a circle around the table, pumpkin juice running off the table and puddling on the floor. Quite the mess. The pumpkins were over ripe and the heat of being inside the house caused the internal eruption.

No more bargain pumpkins for me. I don't even like pumpkin.
 

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