Pumpkin mess!

I bought quite a few pumpkins this year, mainly for outdoor decorations and then to carve.  We were supposed to carve pumpkins at a friend's house the Saturday before Halloween, but then there was a death in her family and the funeral was out of town.  Once I had the idea that the carving pumpkin mess would be elsewhere, I couldn't bring myself to bring the mess into my house and carve pumpkins with the kids.  They did not seem to mind :-).   About a week after Halloween, Abby asked if I could roast some pumpkin seeds for her to eat.  Well, since they're good for you and since I had half a dozen pumpkins I could hardly say no.  So, the mess came into our house anyway!  Serves me right for thinking I could escape a mess :-).  I not only roasted all the seeds from two pumpkins but I baked the pumpkins and pureed the baked pumpkins.  That'll teach me to not carve pumpkins before Halloween!  Actually, I'm glad I baked the pumpkins because I learned something new and isn't that what I tell my kids they should enjoy doing?  You betcha' I enjoyed it!

Pumpkin guts make for great fun....

Pumpkin seeds make for great snack...

Pureeing pumpkins make for great mess...