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Thinks he’s a Halloween pumpkin.
Has not yet realized he is a Thanksgiving pumpkin.
And cake, too. Because indecisive.
And there is always extra custard after I make pie.
Mix it with a vanilla box cake mix & bake. With chocolate chips.
Mmmmmmm.
Recipe, more or less:
Only now we swap out the first bit for “pick home grown pumpkin” instead of the buying / scavenging part, because we’ve come full circle.
Yes, home grown pumpkins are sweeter and better tasting. Like baby zucchini and vine ripened tomatoes and fresh peas.
Also, pro tip: just cut in half, scoop out guts, then nuke on fresh veg setting until soft. Then scoop out flesh with spoon and mash. (Skip all the peeling and chopping part.) Then make pie.
(Used my mooncake mold to make the shape.)
Thanks to #scamperingkaos for the idea! This filling worked perfectly: easy to glob in the center of the dough and roll/mold, did not expand/explode/leak during baking, and was fluffy and creamy to bite into.
Dough:
Mix wet together:
Mix dry together:
Then mix the wet and dry together and chill until very cold.
Filling:
Roast some pumpkin (or a sweet potato). Cool it. Peel it. Mash it with salt, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla to taste. A little soymilk or cream is nice. Add a little oil, margarine, or butter, and then beat it until fluffy. Taste to make sure it is delicious, adjust seasonings, try not to eat all of it. Put down that spoon I see you. Now chill. Put the bowl of filling in the fridge, too, if you like. It should be room temperature or cooler before assembly.
Roll out circles of the cold dough, put a small scoop of filling on each. Close up, pinch shut and roll to smooth roundness. Stamp with cookie stamps (if available), then bake 350F until lightly golden. Allow to cool.
Baby pumpkin
A few days later. May 31. Growth!
What shall we name the baby punkin?
June 3. More than doubled in size since May 26. Wow.
I think I shall call her Kim.
Kim the Magnificent
I have gotten a friend to keep her company, and so there is something consistent in the pictures for scale.
Yes.
May 26:
June 3:
World’s cutest homegrown pumpkin!
(Actually it grew itself accidentally from the compost heap and through the roses …)
Who’s an adorable ghost punkin then? Yes you is. You so certainly am. Just all the most adorbsable you are.
Yes.
There’s a pumpkin in the garden
Soon it will be pumpkin pie
It will grow big and orange
And nothing rhymes with orange
so goodbye
(Poem by housemate, pumpkin by accident from compost)
August 14
This isn’t a recipe.
It’s a moment of silence for my pumpkin patch, after a week of nearly 100 degree heat.
However:
New seeds planted. Starting again.
Are there enough days between August and October?
We shall see.
Jigglypuff and Pokeball pumpkin. White pumpkin and enamel paint. Shiny!
Halloween decor 2020
:/
This is actually v important and needs to be reblogged
Gonna just share this:
My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.
To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.
My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation.
65 nearly identical phrases used in his speeches. Take a moment to think about that.
I cannot stress this enough
