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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: The annual pumpkin patch |
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My daughters class walked to our nearby pumpkin patch acouple of weeks ago. With halloween coming soon I thought I would share my picts.
Happy Autumn to everyone
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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How cute, I bet they had a great time there.
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Adorable pumpkins! Looks like fun.
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It's unusual to see uncarved pumpkins with faces. They don't look like the smartest pumpkins in the crop do they? 
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They may not look too smart but I do love those goofy expressions!!! 
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They DO look kind of dopey, but I love 'em!
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They are all so cute.
I love the idea that you did not cut on them. This signifies that the pumpkins can still be eaten.
By the way - what happens to all those pumpkins that gets cut for halloween purposes??
DO they all get thrown away afterwards??
Around here we always think twice before cutting up food stuffs that we do not intend to eat. There are always a few kids and adults that could do with a meal. (South Africa is a third world country even though we have some first world characteristics.)
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The pumpkin I had last Halloween got eaten by a moose. There were little pieces of it on the ground next to a pile of "moose nuggets"! LOL At least it didn't go to waste...
petunia, your pics are very festive. Gets me in a "spooky" mood.... oooooo
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Palmtree: Here once the pumpkins are carved or cut into, they're just either thrown out or put into a compost pile. We can use the uncut pumpkin to eat too-I was just thinking of making some pumpkin muffins this weekend.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know about other cities, but grocery stores here will donate any unsold jack-o-lantern pumpkins to the local zoo after halloween, the Hippos and Elephants love them. But, yeah, the ones people cut are usually way too molding by the day after Halloween to be eaten so they are thrown away.
I have never tried to cook the larger ones, I do cut up and cook the small ones and have bags of pumpkin in the freezer for pies and cookies during the year.
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There are several types of pumpkins grown. There are pie pumpkins, which of course are for baking oies, cookies and cakes. Those are eating pumpkins. Then there are field pumpkins. These are usually the ones that you see being carved and used for decorations. They are commercially grown for that purpose. The flavor of them isn't supposed to be as good as the pie pumpkins. And then you have the giant pumpkins too. One of the local magazines had an article about pumpkins a couple of weeks ago.
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Those are some cute pumpkins.
I have never bought pumpkins to carve up.I bought one for Kevin to decorate. He used a
marshmallow cookie and cut it in half and made ears and an apple cut just right to make the nose and different candies here and there red hots to make red lips,toothpicks and glue worked wonders to hold everything on.He won most delicious pumpkin.He was in the fourth grade and the winner pumpkins were displayed in the bank in town.
I don't know if they threw them away are fed them to animals.
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If we manage to get pumpkins here for Halloween, I visit my sister-in-law. She makes pumpkin jam which tastes delicious with foie gras and other delicacies on New Year's Eve. Then we carve the thing after she's emptied it.
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droopy: Maybe you could p.m. with the recipe for the pumpkin jam. I've never heard of it but it sounds like it might be good to try. Thanks in advance.
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I'll have to talk my sister-in-law out of it first, Petunia. The first hurdle is to remember to ask her.
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