Moot Thoughts & Musings

Hi, Jeannette. I've been reading your blog for several months now and wanted to tell you how much I enjoy reading it and that I have found your entries encouraging and inspiring. Hope you remember me from Covenant - Andrew and I are living in England now while I'm in school, and unfortunately, there's ne'er a pumpkin in sight! So it's been hard for me to mark my favorite season in the traditional way - so it was so nice to see your gorgeous pumpkin and feel reassured that yes, FALL IS HERE!
Blessings to you and your family -

Last year, you talked about pumpkins, and I was all inspired to follow in your Martha Stewartesque shoes. Sadly, I am a flighty and unfocused creature, and I never got around to it. So this Fall, to the pumpkins! I will delve into the orange and make something yummy. I mean it this time. Seriously.

See? Proof of my shame.

http://covblogs.com/diber/archives/003058.html

Note to Valerie,

One of my friends is from England and they DO grow pumpkins there! So, I don't know why you haven't seen any! They're all over the place here in Germany as well!

On pumpkins and England. I know my Brit friends never saw a pumpkin until they came to the U.S. I wonder where your friend saw the pumpkins? I have more than one American friend living in England who would like to know. :-) (YES, Valerie, I do remember you, of course!)
I always pictured pumpkins in Europe as more of a continental thing. For instance, one of my favorite Italian recipes is pumpkin ravioli, ravioli di zucca.

We had some people over from church here last year for a Thanksgiving dinner - we served pumpkin pie, and none of them had ever heard of it before! (I had to use canned pumpkin brought over by a family member)
Maybe I could find one if I searched harder, but it's nothing like the huge parking lots and church lawns full of pumpkins for sale in the US!

J, could you post (or email me) your pumpkin pie recipe? I bought a pie pumpkin this morning and want to try the whole "from scratch" thing.

I have never, ever liked pumpkin pie, but was surprised last year to find out that I like pumpkin itself. I found this out while in New Zealand. Pumpkin is hugely popular there. They put in on everything! My favorite was as a pizza topping.

martha Stewart did start this. One fine November day when we were homeschooling we saw her on TV make a sweet potatoe pie. some people like it better than pumpkin, but I have always been partial to pumpkin and saying sweet potato pie would be a bit condescending for me. Anyway, she tells you exactly how to do it, including putting this pastgry cutout of a leaf and a vine on it. I am watching and thinking I am going to do this with pumpkin. Then she says 'it won't work with pumpkin' and then I think I am going to do it anyway and hen she kindly says 'what you do with pumpkin is.........' thanks to MS's patient instruction we had bautiful yummy pumpkin pie. Just finished the 3rd one today.. eating it that is!

nice stem!

A comment from Deborah who's from England...

Although we do have pumpkins we don´t decorate our front porches like the germans do only because most of the time it would get stolen.
Deborah