Pumpkin season again! carving pumpkins...

[Claudya]

Mine hasn't turned out very christian, but I wouldn't have the skill to carve an image of Jesus into a pumpkin anyway.

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Looking forward to a lot of pumpkin soup the next days.

 

[stovebolts]

and you're a fantastic photographer that picture came out nice

 

[Sandy Zalecki]

Love pumpkin, it is my favorite flavor. I love pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin butter. The list goes on and on.

 

[reba]

I spell pumpkin Libbys

 

[Claudya]

and you're a fantastic photographer that picture came out nice

Thank you very much!

It's really a decent pic considering it's just a cell phone camera.
I used to have a real good camera, an analog slr camera, and used to photograph a lot, despite the costs of having to have the films developed. But then my life collapsed and I don't even know where that camera went (probably in a friend's attic, gonna ask him). I'd love to have a digital slr camera, but my budget is really small at the moment.

 

[stovebolts]

It's amazing how well these cell phone camera's can take pictures now days! It looks like you had a lot of fun! My phone takes hdmi video which just amazes me. I record my son's wrestling matches with it and then we play them on the big screen. I can't believe these little phones have such potential! Anyway, you took a good shot. Nice pumpkin!

 

[Claudya]

Hrm, my cell phone camera performs better than my webcam, but it's not super good. The cell phone is a few years old, too. It was one of the earlier affordable smart phones.
Yeah the pumpkin was nice for carving indeed. But its taste isn't as good as the smaller ones.

(LOL well that's a negative whiny post, sorry. I should be glad and thank God that I have a cell phone camera and pumpkin soup!)

 

[jasoncran]

lol. I miss the ole pentax k1000 where I had to develop film in black and white or color.

 

[reba]

very cool ugly thing the eyes are terrific i find myself looking in them not just at them...sorta creepy

 

[abide]

So it's pumpkin season again!

Up here at Tim Horton's in Canada they are making pumpkin-flavored muffins, which my wife likes; this is why I keep buying them.

Here's a link to a video about carving pumpkins, with presenter Bernadette Macias. Some of the carvings are amazing!

Edit to remove video: CF Staff

Blessings.

Farouk why do the pumpkins in Canada and the USA look so different from the ones here in Barbados and the Caribbean, the skin on ours is greener but the ones over there looks very orange. I love pumpkin. You must try pumpkin fritters.

4 cups of cooked pumpkin

Mix with 1 tbls spice and a little salt. Add a cup of flour and 1/4 cup of milk.

Mix thoroughly. Have a pan with oil bring to the heat and place spoonfuls into the pan with the heated oil. When brown turn over.

These are tasty. (Remember, pumpkin is soft so it does not take long to fry.) THIS IS MY RECIPE SO HOPE IT WORKS

 

[Claudya]

Farouk why do the pumpkins in Canada and the USA look so different from the ones here in Barbados and the Caribbean, the skin on ours is greener but the ones over there looks very orange.

There's so many variations of pumpkins I guess they just grow a different kind where you live. So they are better adapted to your climate and soil.

You must try pumpkin fritters.

Sounds cool. I'll try it with the next pumpkin. I'll try to make a vegan version of it (soy milk instead of normal milk).

 

[abide]

There's so many variations of pumpkins I guess they just grow a different kind where you live. So they are better adapted to your climate and soil.


Sounds cool. I'll try it with the next pumpkin. I'll try to make a vegan version of it (soy milk instead of normal milk).

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I forgot you can add two tbsp sugar (this may be optional) for those who prefer not to use sugar

 

[farouk]

Farouk why do the pumpkins in Canada and the USA look so different from the ones here in Barbados and the Caribbean, the skin on ours is greener but the ones over there looks very orange. I love pumpkin. You must try pumpkin fritters.

4 cups of cooked pumpkin

Mix with 1 tbls spice and a little salt. Add a cup of flour and 1/4 cup of milk.

Mix thoroughly. Have a pan with oil bring to the heat and place spoonfuls into the pan with the heated oil. When brown turn over.

These are tasty. (Remember, pumpkin is soft so it does not take long to fry.) THIS IS MY RECIPE SO HOPE IT WORKS

abide:

I'm not sure...

Maybe its because the seasons are more pronounced in Canada than in the Caribbean. Like, pumpkins here are associated with the fall.

Blessings.

PS: I want to be careful what I say on this thread, because while some of what I wrote some weeks ago seemed to me to be innocuous, yet I ended up getting lots of pms trying to prove why carving pumpkins was supposedly so uniquely unnacceptable.

So maybe I should keep quiet for a bit...