Comments | shake_the_stars: Lo, The Appraiser Cometh

shake_the_stars

Lo, The Appraiser Cometh

Oct 23, 2010 05:56

Srry gaiz for the bait and switch. I know I promised some other stuff (for the three of you who care about the makeup I bought and the hilarious letter I got from the county Republican headquarters), but this is what I have right now so you're stuck with it. Also I just looked at the pictures I took for the makeup post and they're horrible. This ( Read more... )

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augustuscaesar October 23 2010, 11:12:30 UTC

Mmmmm sweet pumpkin goodness!

shake_the_stars October 23 2010, 11:15:13 UTC

OM NOM NOM *g*

There will be more sweet pumpkin goodness, from now until they quit carrying quite as much pumpkin! :D

augustuscaesar October 23 2010, 11:16:31 UTC

They actually have carving pumpkins in one of our local supermarkets at the moment. It's v.odd. I am happy for pumpkiny goodness, but less so re: Americanisation of Australia :/

shake_the_stars October 23 2010, 11:31:59 UTC

Carving pumpkins here are usually not good to eat, though pie pumpkins are. (Pie pumpkins are just a bloody ordeal to cut up, which is why we buy ours canned.) Mom does not trust me with the carving tools ever since the puking pumpkin in 2004. At least the kids (mostly the boys) got some lulz out of it :D

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forgottensanity October 23 2010, 14:45:45 UTC

It looks really good. We don't get much pumpkin over here, but it's starting to creep in due to Halloween becoming more popular. We haven't always been able to find pumpkin in normal stores, but now most of them stock pumpkin in late October. It's a very limited window, though, and I have never seen canned pumpkin or anything like that. Mostly it's either the large Halloween lantern pumpkins or hokkaido. I baked a pumpkin pie last year with hokkaido pumpkin and it turned out really delicious, particularly served with whipped cream. I've been meaning to bake a pie this year as well, but now I'm not sure I'll have the time.

I have heard that you don't actually eat the lantern pumpkins, whatever they're called, is that true? Are they just for show?

Do you happen to have any traditional American recipes for pumpkin cakes / pies / desserts lying around? I'd be interested to learn what a REAL pumpkin pie is supposed to taste like.

shake_the_stars October 24 2010, 04:42:16 UTC

Pumpkin is seasonal here too--you might be able to get a can of pumpkin in the middle of June, but there would probably be only three or four cans on the shelf. There's a lot more canned pumpkin in the late fall and early winter (since so many people make pumpkin bread or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas), and of course there are the actual whole squashes, which are strictly a seasonal thing. Squash is a New World vegetable, so I'm not surprised that it's making slow headway ^_- As an ingredient, canned pumpkin is more popular here because skinning and scraping an actual pumpkin is an ordealI actually had to look up Hokkaido pumpkin (I think it's akin to what we would call a pie pumpkin), but agree that your pie was likely delicious. Also, your hypothesis is correct: we do not eat jack-o'-lantern pumpkins. (I don't know why this is--surely they're edible, but maybe they just don't taste as good.) They are decorative only, and after they've been outside for a few days and had a candle in them and been accosted by squirrels, ( ... )

forgottensanity October 25 2010, 08:21:21 UTC

Coconut cream sounds delicious as well, so I wouldn't mind getting a recipe for that, too. :-)

Is it a general American thing to buy a premade pie crust and canned contents rather than do everything from scratch or is it just you being lazy? :-) I look at English recipe sites every now and then and found that at least some tend to use a lot of cake mixes and such and just add jam or storebought cream in between layers. I think Danes generally either bake a cake from scratch or buy a whole cake from a bakery. They don't very often "cheat" halfway. It's either-or. :-)

shake_the_stars October 26 2010, 02:32:26 UTC

That I can do without looking too hard :D

In this case, it was me being lazy because I didn't feel like going through the ordeal that is pie dough, especially when the filling came together so quickly. ;) For some people, it is a general thing to buy mixes all the time (if you have to get something together in a hurry, or if you really have no baking acumen whatsoever), but usually if I'm going to be arsed to make something, I'm going to do it from scratch.

Half-assing is the American way! ;D