Confession: I hate carving pumpkins. Hate it. But I love the end result (I carved one yesterday afternoon for an upcoming JITH segment), and I also love that this traditional autumn activity provides you with a truly fantastic (and easy-to-prepare) snack.
1. Clean the seeds well, removing all pumpkin strings and pieces.
2. Boil the seeds in salted water for about ten minutes (or soak them overnight).
I am the kind of person who has a strong physical reaction to the very idea of reading an instruction manual, so if my photos
I'm back. (Kendrick said that I came into the house "like an angry bull" last night.)
Foresight is having a two-hour layover in Charlotte, spotting a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, and realizing that there is a really excellent chance that sometime around 11PM that evening, upon returning from a fairly debauched dinner at a Richmond brasserie, you will be thrilled to discover a chocolate- and nut-covered apple in your hotel room.
The day before Thanksgiving, my cousin Tina made a ham dish (pictured above) so fantastic that I had to go home and try to recreate it myself.
