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BorosilicateArachnid — Halloween '09
Published: 2009-11-01 08:59:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 355; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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Yeah, I know I just missed it, but here's my jack o' lantern for the year and some roasted pumpkin seeds. yum.I usually do the over-complicated carved in designs, but I went a little more traditional this time.
To roast pumpkin seeds, just wash them and seperate them from the pulp, add salt to taste to the wet seeds so it sticks, and bake on a lightly greased or nonstick pan at 325F in an oven for 15-20 minutes. I don't stir them at all for the first ten minutes and then once every 3 minutes or so after that. Once they get golden brown, take them out, cool, and store in an airtight container.
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This pumpkin is definitely one of the best I've seen! Much better than anything we've usually come out with. Do you start with a pattern and mark it at all, just wing it or what?
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Thank you. 
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Do you leave the seeds as they are out of the pumpkin or do you shell them before baking? We carved about 15 pumpkins (many were small & only the 5 yr old could get her hand in to clean them out) but we have a butt load of seeds.
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Leave them whole. In fact, I just eat the shells. They're not very thick or hard unlike, say, sunflower seeds. That might be an issue for little ones though.
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Thank you!x 
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Nah, you just clean the guts off. :3 I don't bake pumpkin seeds often (heck, Halloween only comes about once a year), but I can tell you that much. In fact, after you've baked them you can treat them much like you would sunflower seeds--the shell is completely edible if you so choose (though maybe a little less tough but a bit more splintery than sunflower seeds), though they obviously can be tossed in favor of the seed alone.
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Nice work! We carved a space invaders pumpkin 
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Cinnamon? Blasphemy!
Nice pumpkin, by the way.
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