There's nothing like waiting until Halloween before carving pumpkins, right? You just can't trust these punk kids in the neighborhood not the kick them in or drop kick them down the street. So, after lunch we laid claim to which pumpkin we each wanted and sketched out our designs. Chris decided this was just the event that called for the use of power tools to cuts the tops off the pumpkins.
Those pumpkins were no match the power of an electric hole saw. Then we hauled them out back and got busy with a steak knife and spoon.
My pumpkin was full of seeds which we saved in a bowl to roast later. Chris' was just stringy inside. A short while later our masterpieces were done.
Since I knew we'd be up answering the door numerous times this evening, I went the easy route and got a jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's for dinner.
While the pizza cooked we seasoned our pumpkin seeds. I seasoned my batch with cinnamon and sugar.
Chris did a savory batch with salt and paprika and other spices.
After ten minutes under the broiler, mine looked like this:
Apparently sugar burns very quickly under the broiler. Good to know. I made Chris take them outside because they were smoking up the kitchen. After we ate our pizza I got our candy ready for the little beggars. I have a mix of baby ruths, kit kats, and butterfingers. We'd bought Take 5's too, but we actually like those ones too much to give away.
At about 6:30 it got dark enough for Chris to go out and light the pumpkins. They look pretty good and we've had three trick-or-treaters so far so I guess they're doing their job.
It says 'it's nighttime and look, there's a Canadian that lives here'.
Those pumpkins were no match the power of an electric hole saw. Then we hauled them out back and got busy with a steak knife and spoon.
My pumpkin was full of seeds which we saved in a bowl to roast later. Chris' was just stringy inside. A short while later our masterpieces were done.
Since I knew we'd be up answering the door numerous times this evening, I went the easy route and got a jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's for dinner.
While the pizza cooked we seasoned our pumpkin seeds. I seasoned my batch with cinnamon and sugar.
Chris did a savory batch with salt and paprika and other spices.
After ten minutes under the broiler, mine looked like this:
Apparently sugar burns very quickly under the broiler. Good to know. I made Chris take them outside because they were smoking up the kitchen. After we ate our pizza I got our candy ready for the little beggars. I have a mix of baby ruths, kit kats, and butterfingers. We'd bought Take 5's too, but we actually like those ones too much to give away.
At about 6:30 it got dark enough for Chris to go out and light the pumpkins. They look pretty good and we've had three trick-or-treaters so far so I guess they're doing their job.
It says 'it's nighttime and look, there's a Canadian that lives here'.
2 comments:
Hey, that dinner looks familiar!
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