Entries tagged with 'pumpkins'
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If you're anything like Nicole of Pinch My Salt, you may have bought a pumpkin this week with the intention of turning it into pie. But there you are now, standing in front of your open fridge, staring wide-eyed at the turkey, the yams, the potatoes, the corn, the green beans, the apples, the bread. What made you think you could make a pumpkin pie from scratch as well? Um, no. If you're overwhelmed or just want to try something a bit out of the norm this Thanksgiving, Nicole provides an innovative, facile, and Sicilian take on pumpkin for tomorrow: Zucca Gialla in Agrodolce, or Grilled Pumpkin in Sweet and Sour Sauce. The pumpkin is simply halved, peeled, grilled,...
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We know you've been waiting for this, so we won't keep you in suspense any longer, bwahahahahahah. The winners of the inaugural Serious Eats Pumpkin-Carving Contest are: 1. Grand Prize OMNOMNOMNOMNOM, by sunkid Prize: Viking Professional Chef's Cutlery Starter Set (includes: 5-inch flexible boning knife, 8-inch chef's knife, 4-inch paring knife). 2. First Runner Up Castle of the Wicked Witch, by stike Prize: 8-inch Viking Professional Chef's Knife 3. Second Runner Up No Country for Old Men-o'-Lantern, by gavinworth Prize: 4-inch Viking Professional Paring Knife 4. Third Runner Up Joker-o-Lantern, by jenhappy Prize: Williams-Sonoma Pumpkin-Carving Kit Note from the Serious Eats Team: Hope your thumb is healing nicely! Thanks to everyone who entered. This was a really tough decision, with...
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We've already got a bunch of great submissions for the first annual Serious Eats Pumpkin Carving Contest, but here's a little nudge reminding you there's still time. Polls will close on Saturday at 6PM EST. So far, we've seen a cereal reference, tragic injury (how's that thumb?), and pomegranate sneak into the mix. After tonight's trick-or-treating, add your carving creation to Photograzing for a chance to win cookbooks and Viking knives....
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Photograph from chippenziedeutch on Flickr In Talk earlier this week, JerzeeTomato asked where to find a blue pumpkin. After a three-day search, in which she checked back in on the thread to update us all, she finally found one at a small farm stand in Delaware. But not before she left a lot of us wondering what the heck a blue pumpkin looked like. The pumpkin photo above isn't from Jerz—I just wanted to highlight it to show everyone blue pumpkins. I've only ever seen them in photos. This one is from Flickr user chippenziedeutch. And here's a photo of a 'Queensland Blue' split open. The contrast of blue skin and deep orange flesh is quite striking....
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Consider this: everything we eat today must be pumpkin-shaped (that includes the stem), starting with breakfast. Rachel of My Sisters Cucina made these pumpkin-shaped pancakes with Bisquick, then added orange and green food coloring for a realistic effect....
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Good news, carvers! You have until 6 p.m. Saturday, November 1 to submit your creations on Photograzing. We'll announce winners Monday afternoon (November 3). Prizes include cookbooks and sharp, shiny Viking knives....
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Canned pumpkin is easy to use and available year round, but fresh pumpkin is worth the extra prep for real pumpkin flavor.
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Carved turnip with vision troubles. Photograph from soozums on Flickr My Irish kin have some interesting Halloween customs, including turnip-o-lanterns. The jack-o-lantern creation story actually starts with a turnip in Ireland during the 18th century. A blacksmith named Jack dropped a coal ember into a gouged-out turnip, and so it began. When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they substituted turnips with pumpkins—much plumper, and thus, better carving potential....
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This year, pumpkins are the newest form of campaigning. There's campaign-o-lantern patterns for both McCain and Obama couples. Some more here. Over at Zombie Pumpkins, Obama is ahead by over 25-percent in pumpkin polls. Obama's team even has their own blog called Yes We Carve, dedicated to Obamalanterns....
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Carving ideas from pumpkinway.com As we mentioned last week, we're excited to hold our first Pumpkin Carving Contest. But we're even more excited now that we know specifics on the three top prizes: 1st place: Viking Professional Chef's Cutlery Starter Set (Set includes: Five-inch flexible boning knife, eight-inch chef knife, four-inch paring knife) 2nd place: Eight-inch Viking Professional Chef's Knife 3rd place: Four-inch Viking Professional Paring Knife All Viking knives are stainless steel, have a lifetime warranty, and are handmade in Germany with authentic Old World craftsmanship. (They are not necessarily for pumpkins.)...
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