How do you like them apples?

[digitaldiscipline]

(this has nothing to do with any iThing, because I continue to exist in an iOS-free environment)

So, hey, fall is officially here, october is happening, and the world is exploding in an orgiastic celebration of pumpkin-spiced everything.

y'all are some sick, sick fucks. pumpkin is just blander, stringier squash, and the only thing people are going into these rapturous squeals over is the shit that's applied to pumpkin to make it palatable as a mashed/roasted/pied thing - some confabulation of butter and cinnamon and nutmeg and allspice and what-the-fuck-ever.

I don't honestly know what the blend is, because I don't care for it, and can thus give those fucks elsewhere (like how best to season and roast pumpkin seeds, for instance).

seriously. take a bite of some raw and unseasoned pumpkin flesh and tell me that it's the sort of thing you want in your coffee, or beer, or snow cones, or whatever.

(i continue to dislike any cooked orange vegetable; i enjoy raw carrots, but squash and pumpkins are over there next to beets in my Do Not Want pile; i make a poor autumn harvest vegetable appreciator... so, yes, that's more for the rest of you. pass the apples and venison.)

Comments

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Not sure the fact that something needs to be cooked and liberally seasoned to be properly edible is really a winning argument for why it shouldn't be eaten.

But I'll be happy to take your fair share of pumpkin flavored everything. And your squash and beats while I'm at it.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You can probably keep the beats, though. *g*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'd probably consider these, but don't have much occasion for 'em.....

[etcet.livejournal.com]

"But it's grooooooooooosssssss!" seems to be an argument much more befitting someone a tenth my age, no matter how true I find it to be. ;-)

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Heh. Works for me with asparagus.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

My favorite is the ridiculously-redundant "pumpkin spice chai", which is essentially indistinguishable from a normal masala chai mix.

I keep thinking that pumpkin pie was probably invented by Indians, and not the native American kind.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I am not a huge fan of Pumpkin Everything, although the pumpkin juice they sell at the Harry Potter theme park is pretty tasty. But I like that spice mixture. And a savory pumpkin or butternut squash soup, with onions and sage and thyme, makes me happy.

I also love sweet potatoes. And carrots roasted in olive oil.

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

I like pumpkin. Not raw, but straight-up roasted, maybe with a little salt. It does not need much in my opinion (and I'm happy to eat your share, along with those beets that you don't want).

And I like the spice-mix for pumpkin pie stuff, which is approximately as you've listed it. It is good for many things. Sprinkled on roasted apples, added to oatmeal, whatever. (Pumpkin pie is usually not-so-good. It can be, but most of them are not.)

What I do not like?

Things that contain fake-pumpkin flavor. Pumpkin-pie latte? Fake pumpkin flavor! Ick! (Okay, there are a couple places around here that make their own pumpkin stuff out of real pumpkin for those lattes and those are weird but not icky.) Add the straight spice-mix to the coffee? Yes. Add fake pumpkin flavor to go with it? No.

[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

I've heard that the marketability of big, hollow (by default flavorless) pumpkin for carving has had an impact on the overall availability of flavorful gourds. Still, I think this of any yellow squash. Load it up with sausage or butter or salt or spices, and of not, it's just not worth it.

It's the nutmeg that people go nuts with--it has a sedative effect and a really loooong half life. Take enough and you'll be drunk as fuck and hallucinating.

[mschaos.livejournal.com]

a couple guys I knew in high school actually chewed on a whole nutmeg and the results were pretty high-larious

[jola.livejournal.com]

raw nutmeg by itself is GROSS, i don't care how high it gets you, it's gross.

[cheez-ball.livejournal.com]

Favorite seasonal recipe for fall:

1/2" cubed pumpkin (seeds, strings and skin removed - I buy jack o' lanterns on Nov 1 when they're $1 each)
salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to taste

Roast in olive oil for 1 hour.

Delicious and about 150 calories per serving. Very few carbs.

I also love roasted sugar beets. Slice 'em thin and serve with just some salt and white pepper.

And, major nomz to sweet potato fries. Although I usually make sweet potatoes in soup (I leave out the garlic and onions and add a tablespoon of homemade berbere): http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/african-peanut-soup-recipe/index.html

[jola.livejournal.com]

PUMPKIN EVERYTHING FOREVER!

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