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  1. jmcquown said:

    Anyone else decorate for Samhainn? I usually buy a small pumpkin and
    several gourds and dried cornstalks and set up a display by my front door.

    Carin has her place decorated. I am going over for the party in an
    hour or two. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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    The pumpkin can be used to make soup (heh, canned pumpkin is readily
    available and better by far than the pumpkins sold for display).

    I like using sugar pumpkins because I like chunks of pumpkin in my
    soup. Of course, I say that, but I happened to puree the soup this
    time. :-)

    My soup was made with that excellent chicken stock (it was like
    thick, clear gelatin when I took it out of the fridge), some coconut
    milk, ginger, garlic, onions, celery, homemade curry powder, fish
    sauce, shrimp paste, and kaffir lime leaves. It's really yummy, but
    I think next time I'll leave the lime leaves out until just before
    serving; they add a bitterness if they cook for a while.

    Serene, on her way to dress up in her costume
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  2. Serene said:


    jmcquown said:

    Anyone else decorate for Samhainn? I usually buy a small pumpkin and
    several gourds and dried cornstalks and set up a display by my front door.

    Carin has her place decorated. I am going over for the party in an
    hour or two. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

    I don't know about Samhainn but my wife decorates for all seasons and for
    most holidays. Her Thanksgiving / fall decoration at the front door is a
    bunch of corn stalks and pumpkins and in the living room / dining room she
    has a table display with red maple branches, small pumpkins and
    gourds.

  3. Yep, my house is decorated for Samhain, Halloween, All Soul's Day and
    Día de los Muertos. It looks like a weird festival is happening around
    here.<g>

    Becca

  4. Dee Dee said:

    "Janet B." <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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    "Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    On Oct 7, 11:54?am, "Janet B." <[email hidden]> wrote:
    > "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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    >news:[email hidden]...
    > snip> The pumpkin can be used to make soup (heh, canned pumpkin is
    > readily
    > > available and better by far than the pumpkins sold for display). The

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    > That's because the pumpkins sold at the store are probably Jack
    > O'Lantern
    > pumpkins and not pie pumpkins. Although in recent years pumpkins are
    > available that are multi-purpose. Jack O'Lantern pumpkins are stringy
    > and
    > watery. Pie pumpkins are sweeter, meatier, generally smaller and are
    > more
    > like butternut squash. In my area, if a pumpkin is a pie pumpkin, the
    > grocer labels it as such and it is more expensive than the other
    > pumpkins.

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    Most commercial pumpkin pie is made with butternut squash, technically
    it's a pumpkin.

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    Most any pumpkin is a pie pumpkin and and a jack o' lantern pumpkin,
    there is no difference other than size appearence. People buy the
    small pumpkins for pie because what is someone going to do with a 20
    pounder, more than enough for a dozen pies, or a hundred pounder.

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    This same question arises most every year... go to the burpee.com web
    site.

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    http://tinyurl.com/2esdgo

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    http://www.burpee.com/product/vegetables/pumpkins/pumpkin+big+max+-+1...

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Peter_Pumpkin_Eater

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    Sheldon

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    That's why I said multi-purpose pumpkins were available in recent years.
    If you had ever used Jack O'Lantern pumpkins in the 'olden days' for pies,
    you would know what I mean. The reason the seed catalogs differentiate as
    to pie quality, is so that gardeners will know for sure that they are
    getting suitable seeds.
    Janet

    Around where I live, here in Shenandoah Valley, VA, when you go to the
    Farmers' Markets, the pie pumpkins and the Jack O'Lantern pumpkins are
    segregated.

    Ridiculous... but they're always had segregation in VA, always will...
    where do yoose keep the redneck punkins, oh, you are one. hehe

  5. "Becca" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Yep, my house is decorated for Samhain, Halloween, All Soul's Day and Día
    de los Muertos. It looks like a weird festival is happening around
    here.<g>

    PICS! 😄

  6. Becca said:

    Yep, my house is decorated for Samhain, Halloween, All Soul's Day and
    Día de los Muertos. It looks like a weird festival is happening around
    here.<g>

    Carin's place looked GREAT for the Samhain party. Here's an example
    of the amazing art she created for the event:

    http://sogwife.livejournal.com/37247.html

    Serene

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