Do you like snacking on them?

Shell or no shell?


Salt or no salt?

Fresh from the oven or in a package?

Homemade from the pumpkin..what spices do you bake them in?

I like liquorice flavoured ones I get in China. With shells cos I hate faffing about trying to bite the shells off.

REDBABY said:

black liquorice?
If so

I usually eat the shells if I buy the prepackaged ones. If I take them out of the pumpkin and bake them myself I will crack a few open and just eat the meat out of them.

Every halloween I bake fresh pumpkin seeds, tossed with olive oil then salted. I bake on low for 30-40 min. The house smells great when the kiddies arrive.

xplnyrslf said:

OHHHH YUMMIE

I was just thinking about how much fun it is to have your hands in the pumpkin guts pulling out the seeds.

shanti0608 said:

I carve about 6 pumpkins every year. It's slimey. I started using a power drill for carving as it's quicker.....
You have to clean the seeds and rinse them off before baking and the stringy stuff is a pain.....

xplnyrslf said:

yes one is fun...6 would be too much work.

Like them fresh from the oven, with the shell and salty

I make them fresh

I boil them for about 3 minutes 1st ( keeps centers moister and makes them less tough ) then broil them with olive oil and sea salt - sometimes a bit of different seasonings






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Mach said:

shanti0608 said:

they give me gas

I don't like them it takes too much work to get at those little seeds!

REDBABY said:

Licorce flavored? That sounds interesting. I like licorice.

Wow! So is this the first Halloween-inspired thread?

We baked pumkin seeds about 2 years ago after we made the jack-o-lanterns, but none of the kids liked them.

However, we didn't do or add anything to them.

Maybe we'll try again this year with a little more TLC.

What's a good recipe? The olive oil and salt sounds easy.

fresh from the oven, baked in butter and a pinch of salt

There's so many different spices ( like cinnamon, sugar, allspice) you can put on them before baking/roasting

Yes to all of the choices! But, I love them just out of the oven and covered in salt best.

Ok I really need to go to bed... Now I'm probably dream of pumpkin seeds!

Sweeny79 said:

roasted and salted they're yummy

XxAxX said:

Do you eat the shell?

I love fresh roasted pumpkin seeds.

I like the them best simply roasted with olive oil and salt, but sometimes with a garlic salt and Worcestershire sauce mixture or sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. And while I pull off any strings and larger clumps of pulp before roasting, I don't wash the seeds, as the residue adds flavour and helps to hold the seasonings.
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Mach said:

Ooooh thanks, I'll remember this one!

I eat packaged pumpkin seeds whenever I can't do the fresh ones. Not nearly as good as the ones you make yourself. I just roast them with butter and salt.

I eat packaged pumpkin seeds whenever I can't do the fresh ones. Not nearly as good as the ones you make yourself. I just roast them with butter and salt.

I would love to have some freshly roasted pumpkin seeds right about now.

shanti0608 said:

I'll have to try them with cinnamon/ sugar.....sounds good. I should be able to get a good pumpkin about now.

They should make pumpkin ice cream. I'm sure they do somewhere.....but I haven't seen any. I just know that pumpkin cheesecake is divine.

Edy's sold it last year around thanksgiving..

it was yummie!