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Oooooh. My Mum makes Pumpkin Pie every Halloween (homesick homesick). I love it! Pumpkin is a bit flavourless, so probably you need spices. Nutmeg? Bit of vanilla essence? Cinnamon? Dunno, not much good with cooking. Raisons sound scrummy too...

Oooooh. My Mum makes Pumpkin Pie every Halloween (homesick homesick). I love it! Pumpkin is a bit flavourless, so probably you need spices. Nutmeg? Bit of vanilla essence? Cinnamon? Dunno, not much good with cooking. Raisons sound scrummy too...

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Another cure for the book acquisition habit is to move to a place that has no decent bookstores within a 300 mile radius. I'm reduced to buying books off amazon that I already know of, instead of picking up armloads I never heard of but that look wonderful.

Relatives will be over in a couple of hours, and then we're going to take a drive through the Mescalero Apache reservation to Cloudcroft for lunch and go on to Alamogordo to see the White Sands and maybe the military museum. Weather is clear and warm.

Morning all!

Friday has dawned and with the return of the sun came - the return of my voice!!! Yes, I am in much better health, just in time for the weekend.

Re: and pie. My favorite thing to do after making jack-o-lanterns is to clean and roast the pumpkin seeds. Makes a delish snack which is much healthier than many others I could mention. As for pies, I let others do the baking of pies for me.

Lil, while you are in Cloudcroft, pick up some cider. Any variety will do. It is some of the most remarkable stuff I have ever tasted.

Matina, some please. Thank you.

G7

That's sounds like a good trip, Lil. I think I'll come with you.

The Coupland book is definitely out in paperback. Somehow I've managed to acquire a signed copy. Presumably this means that Mr Coupland's publishers forced him to come to Leeds .

Leeds is a weird place. Just up the road from the bookshop is a shop called Wampum that is entirely devoted to Native American artefacts.

Amy's pie recipe (as best as I can remember).

Line a pie plate or shallow quiche dish with shortcrust pastry. Cut the pumpkin into stick like carrot sticks and arrange radially on the pastry. Add raisins or sultanas. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg. Create a circle of pastry to top the pie and cut into it to make a pumpkin lantern design. Put the top on the pie. Glaze with beaten egg. Bake until brown.

The result is quite a thin pie with a strudel-like texture.

I can figure out if the pumpkin had to be poached in syrup first. What do you Americans think? And as to tinned pumpkin... does anywhere in the UK stock such a thing?

That should read "I can't figure out..."

I agree with G7 about the pumpkin seeds. I have a Bulgarian friend who makes great roasted pumpkin seeds.

Matina, could you put out some and , please? I want to see if I can tempt any lurkers - particularly those of an italic persuasion .

Italic lurkers?

*waves to any such who might be about *

G7

Must be time for me to go t'pub now

Perhaps I will give pie a miss! I haven't seen it canned in our huge branch of a national supermarket chain, so is not likely to be easy to get hold of.

As the sons are too old to want to make lanterns and the recipe in the mag requires 5lbs of the stuff, along with loads of sugar and black treacle, I do have all the spices though, it sounds like too much trouble!

But thanks for the responses anyway!

[Spiny, busy weekend coming up. Thanks for front page, Lil!]

I guess I am not a good American, but I *abhor* pumpkin pie. I will have one slice at Thanksgiving to appease the mother. Pumpkin seeds roasted and lightly seasoned (salt pepper plus whatever else falls into my hand from teh spice shelf) are fantastic however. At TurkeyDay I always make or ask my mother to make a pecan pie. I never got the taste for pumpkin, or any other squash for that matter. I am closing in on finnishing my character story for Drop. When done I will post on my website and link from The Other Place.

Mac, as you manage a restaraunt I have a question. Other than B&H and CIA what are good cullinary schools in the US? I am serriously considering getting out of IT before I kill someone.

I like Pecan Pie too. Especially with a large scoop of Cornish vanille ice cream.

Now I am getting hungry! Hope hubby is home soon, time for supper.

Mmmmmm... Pecan pie... The only thing I like better is fresh peach pie...

Now I'm hungry too, Caer. And I still have 2 hours till lunch time.

G7

Oh stop! Stop! It's hours till I eat too...

Greetings, one and all!

Books: I don't read horror books at all, but sometimes the genre crops up in other books. One memorable moment is at the end of John Wyndham's short story 'Survival', where the rescue team board the decapitated space ship and find the girl and her baby eating-...
I can't actually convey it unless someone else has read it.

Well, I've had results back from my tests in Maths, German and Physics, and As feature in all.
Please note that the A* does not exist in college.

*Has never had pumpkin pie.*

Hello, all.

Congrats on the good grades, Prof.!

Marv, have you looked into Johnson and Wales?

Prof. tis a brilliant story ending is it not. Well scary.
Anyhoo, back from an early evening pub thing and just want to say lanterns! Make them out of turnips. Slightly charred neeps smell lovely and all that excess neep is lovely, both raw and cooked.
And while we are at it, at the mysterious italic.

Yay, someone else /has/ read it!

Yeah, the ending's pretty scary, and unexpected too. There's the build up with the other two crewmembers, but you'd never have guessed the girl would have sucumbed(sp?) to it!