Thanksgiving update #1: Pumpkin madness!

[muckefuck]

Just got finished stowing away the pureed innards of three "pie pumpkings". Two cups or so in the fridge are for tomorrow's pie, the rest is frozen for soup to be made at a later date. The very genial and helpful man at Safeminicks told me that he was told to throw out all the big pumpkins leftover from Halloween, despite his protests that the people around here "love to make soup" out of them. monshu and I also shared the first clementine of the season and it's quite nice, if not as sweet and flavourful as they can be at their best. Outside, the snow is sticking even on the boulevards. When I left work, it was wet and icy and mixed with rain, but even then it was clinging to dry leaves, cars, and other things colder than the ground. It'll probably be gone by midday tomorrow, washed away by the cold rain, but right now it's looking prettier than it ever will again this winter.

Comments

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

One of the things I noticed having moved from suburb to unfashionable outer borough, is that I can't buy pumpkins in my area. I left a town that still has an operating farm in it, probably the only one left in the county, to an urban enclave of aging tenements hard by the elevated train. And we ain't got no pumpkins. Roast guinea pigs, on the other hand, are fairly easy to come by.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

So you would join with Gwyn in yelling at me for using canned pumpkin in my pie?

The only pumpkin pie I've ever had that was made from fresh pumpkin was watery and yuck. But I'm fairly sure the cook was experimenting.

Do you have a good pumpkin soup recipe?

Also: CLEMENTINE!!!

[owenthomas.livejournal.com]

What's snow? Is that the stuff up near Tahoe that you ski on?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

No, hon; it's that stuff you're always brushing off your shoulders.