October

Wed evening, one of the actors hosted a pumpkin carving party. I decided not to go, saving up my Wife points for darts on Friday (you know, saying "I'll stay home tonight but I'm going out on Friday".). Not that it didn't sound fun. It probably would have been, despite there being a crowd of actors who don't usually associate with me (actors can be that way. Theatre is very cliquy. Actors associate with actors, and techies with techs.). S was showing some photos she took of the party. Lots of people, lots of pumpkins. I'm also one of those who grew up using the whole pumpkin. Cut it open, save the seeds for roasting. Scrape the pumpkin, getting the walls down to about 1/2" thick to get most of the meat out. Save the meat for baking into puree for pies or soup. Then carve. and use a candle to light it. Usually we got big pumpkins for us kids to carve, and two or three smaller ones for baking; the meat is more tender, less stringy. If the pumpkin is only for baking, you don't have to save the shell, just cut it open and bake! It is a squash after all. I was a little miffed that all my pumpkin carving bookmarks have turned out to be dead links. It's amazing what the technology is now with pumpkin carving. There are also some really creative ones out there. Oh well, I guess I don't need pumpkin carving links in this post. Maybe I'll share some pumpkin recipes