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So, with the second pumpkin, I did the pumpkin soup here:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-soup-3/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=sugar%20pumpkin&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

My family valiantly ate it, but we were less than thrilled with it when eaten ( Read more... )

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So, you might have been wondering with the pumpkin seeds I saved from last week’s recipe.  I made roasted pumpkin seeds!
Roasted pumpkin seeds
Ingredients:

* reserved pumpkin seeds (no need to wash or remove pumpkin debris).  The seeds looked somewhere around 1 1/2 cups.

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We went to a pumpkin patch and ended up with four (they were free!) sugar pumpkins.  So, I thought in honor of October, I’d write up the recipes that I end up doing with the pumpkins.

First up, pumpkin pasta.  Most pumpkin recipes turn it into something sweet, and I was ( Read more... )

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In honor of the sunny summer that was, here’s a camping dessert recipe.
Apple surprise
Ingredients

* 4 apples, any variety

* 1 cup whole wheat flour

* 1 tablespoon (2 tablespoons if you are feeling decadent…) butter, cubed into small pieces

* 1/4 cup brown sugar

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I don’t know about everyone else, but sometimes my kids have trouble swallowing things that they don’t believe can properly go down their throats (like mushrooms…).  So here’s what I whipped up this week.  It slides happily down even finicky throats.
Dinner Tart

Ingredients:

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I love the flavor of the carmelized bananas merging with the light sweetness of the pancakes.

Whole Wheat Pancakes With Bananas!

Ingredients

* 1 egg

* 1/8 cup ground flax

* 1 cup whole wheat flour

* 1 teaspoon vanilla

* 1/4 teaspoon salt

* 1 tablespoon baking powder

* 1 ( Read more... )

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Okay.  So, I didn’t know the english word for dondakaya, so I just looked it up.  It says “ivy gourd” is the english name.  Has anyone ever heard of ivy gourd?  (Alternatively they said “gentlemen’s toes” but that can’t be right.  Who would want to eat that?  Ivy gourd at ( Read more... )

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Tasty green bell peppers (also known as green bell pepper koora)

Ingredients:

* 4 green bell peppers, roughly cut in 3/4″ cubes

* 1 15oz can garbonzo beans (if you want to soak dry beans overnight, that will work too)

* 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds/ jeera

* 1/2 teaspoon black ( Read more... )

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Southwestern Pasta

Ingredients

* 1 cup frozen corn

* 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped

* 1 avocado

* 1/4 cup sliced olives

* 1 red onion, finely chopped

* 2 teaspoons minced garlic

* 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

* 1/4 teaspoon cayenne (or another red) pepper

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The first time I ate this dish was on a houseboat, floating along the backwaters in Kerala, India.  The captain had moored the boat to a bank, and just like that, he turned into a chef.  It was a hot day, but waves gently lapped the boat and a gentle breeze lifted some ( Read more... )