Monday, October 31, 2011

making jacks

The day before Halloween was the perfect fall day.  We decided we needed to transform our pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.  Mary Reese got us all set up...

WhichPumpkin?

Everyone picked a pumpkin, drew their favorite face and dug in...

PumpkinCarving

PumpkinCarving2

PumpkinCarving3

The finished jacks...

JackOLanterns

We had a little melt down about the heart eyes.  They weren't done quite up to specifications.  Heart eyes on a pumpkin are a little challenging.

As you can see we recovered...

MR&Jack

...and decided the heart eyes didn't look that bad.

I thought they turned out pretty cute...

JackOLanterns2

We carefully separated the seeds from the pulp, wash & dried them...

PumpkinSeeds

...tossed them with a little butter and kosher salt.  Then we roasted them for about an hour...

RoastedPumpkinSeeds

A delicious & delightful snack!

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