One of my favorite parts about pumpkin carving (or cooking) is getting to toast the seeds. I love scooping seeds out of a pumpkin and rinsing them because they get so slimy!! It’s a fun activity to do with kids after carving a jack-o-lantern, and it’s fun for me to do by myself. I also love snacking on the finished product. After scooping your seeds out of the pumpkin (a grapefruit spoon helps a lot with this part), put them … Continue reading
I really love using pumpkin, and I go through a ton of Trader Joe’s pumpkin purée cans. I’m not sure why the idea of making my own purée got stuck in my head, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Finally, I went for it. I guess I wanted to see whether the homemade stuff would be any different. I also wanted to experiment with the purée, so I steamed one pumpkin and baked the other. Fast forward to the … Continue reading
I’m sure you’ve started to suspect by now just how much I love making pizza. It’s such a great go-to meal because it is easy to keep pizza dough around, you can put any combination of toppings on it, and it cooks up really quickly for hunger emergencies. I had an eggplant and a tomato left from my vegetable delivery that were aging quickly, David and I were hungry, and I’d just defrosted some dough, so pizza was the only … Continue reading