Pumpkin seeds!

[Stew]

Finally I have successfully toasted pumpkin seeds rather than some chewy rubbish!



The differnce is either the boiling in salted water for 5 minutes or the air fryer or both.

Whatever it is, they’re very very good!

I have a few pumpkins worth to get through….

 

[ElThomsono]

Do you season the with anything?

Also that's too many pumpkins, you're like someone from a maths textbook.

 

[MaC]

I just carve a neep
Bugger this new fangled pumpkin !

That said, I do like pumpkin seeds as a munchy.

 

[Jaggededge]

We always used to carve a turnip when I was a kid. Don't think I ever saw a pumpkin then.

 

[Stew]

Do you season the with anything?

Also that's too many pumpkins, you're like someone from a maths textbook.

The plan I’m following is

Rinse off as much gunk as practical.
Boil seeds for 5 mins in salted water
Drain and dry.
Stir through some olive oil, salt and pepper.
Air fryer for 10 minutes at 180.

Bloody good!

The pumpkins are for my wife’s work - they have a big event tomorrow night.

 

[Stew]

The full compliment!

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[noddy]

A dusting of cumin helps - or some kind of steak seasoning.

Sprinkled over it, 50:50 with dried cranberries and a bit of salad dressing, raw kale salad becomes a chewy delight

 

[noddy]

Not planning on growing a pumpkin in one, you understand, but you remember those big huge glass bottles from the the 1970s - carboys- sealed with a cork in the top and with plants growing in it and you didn't have to water them? What were they called?

 

[Renton]

Terrariums?

 

[bushwacker]

The pumpkins are for my wife’s work - they have a big event tomorrow night.

A meeting with the coven?

 

[Saint-Just]

A terrarium, although they are not all sealed, or a garden bottle.

Like this one.

 

[E. By Gum]

We always used to carve a turnip when I was a kid. Don't think I ever saw a pumpkin then.

You had turnips? Luxury

 

[Nice65]

Turnips are better, though we’d call this a swede I think. Carved about 1850 and in the Irish National Museum, the Irish took the tradition to America where pumpkins were used.

 

[Saint-Just]

I thought turnips in Scotland were what we call swedes here, and vice versa.

 

[Jaggededge]

We always knew the big ones as turnips.

 

[Saint-Just]

We always knew the big ones as turnips.

So it starts from further south than I thought

 

[BorderReiver]

So it starts from further south than I thought

My wife is from Lincolnshire and calls turnips swedes.

 

[5teep]

I thought turnips in Scotland were what we call swedes here, and vice versa.

Similar but not exactly the same I think.

 

[Saint-Just]

Similar but not exactly the same I think.

Indeed, 2 different root vegetables. It's just the names that are swapped somewhere on the way to Scotland
In French, turnip is navet whereas swede is rutabaga. The latter is mainly used as animal feed.

 

[noddy]

Turnips are dense and yellow, Swedes are more like radishes. Both have purple tops. That right? Swedes are rutabaga here

 

[bushwacker]

Swedes are large and orange/ yellow. Turnips are small and white. Canadians eat chips with cheese and gravy

 

[noddy]

Oh! OK.

The big yellow ones are good in stew/pie/pasty etc. The white ones are a bit watery and don't taste of a lot. I'll stick to that.

EDIT: Now I am totally confused - according to this wiki, swedes, neeps, turnips and rutabaga are all the same and are yellow and purple.

Rutabaga - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Jaggededge]

We always called them the other way round. My dad only grew the bigger ones. Swedes,but we called it turnip. Real turnips,the smaller ones were probably too posh. Cabbage, broccoli, carrots we were all regular. Everyone we knew had an allotment then.

 

[MaC]

Indeed, 2 different root vegetables. It's just the names that are swapped somewhere on the way to Scotland
In French, turnip is navet whereas swede is rutabaga. The latter is mainly used as animal feed.

Navets are the wee white ones with reddish tops. They go to mush in the cold.
Turnips are big and golden yellow and a really good root vegetable, and it's hardy in our climate

 

[noddy]

Well, I am glad that's all sorted out.