My first creation was apple sauce. Let the kids go out of town for a few days and I turn into a regular Martha Stewart! I took some apples from a local farm(cull outs) and boiled them in 1 inch of apple juice. Then I pushed them through the meat grinder attachment on my Kitchen Aid. It did the rest. It sorted the pulp from the skin and seeds. What a great machine!!! When it was done, this was the finished product:
The second thing I created was my 1st carved pumpkin that I ever remember carving. I took a star cookie cutter and gently used a mallet to create just the outline of the star. Then, with a knife, I cut out the stars. Some things I learned while doing this:
1) Don't do it too early!!! Gnats and rot will kill it. Too bad I didn't wait!
2) The insides are gross thus reiterating why I don't like pumpkin pie! YUCK!!!!
3) Don't let your husband anywhere near it with his great idea!! He came up the stairs with a board and a HUGE hammer. He then laid the board on the cookie cutter which was sitting on the pumpkin and swung the hammer(did I mention that it was HUGE?). What happened next caused me to shove him out of the way: the pumpkin split almost in half! I was able to put it back together enough to take some pictures and light a candle but that was it! You cannot tell in the photo but the split is there!
Your pumpkin looks super cute, but I like the story behind it even better! HA!!!!
ReplyDeleteIn the past we have carved pumpkins with our boys every year. We had to throw ours out just the other day (so sad!!) because the squirrels in our area are CRAZY bold and chewed them up and hollowed them out before we could carve them ourselves! Couldn't believe it!!
Cute pumpkin! I am so inept at carving, I always leave that up to my husband. He says he will do it as long as I sort all the goop for the seeds to cook. lol
ReplyDeleteFunny times! We had to throw it away within days! Yuck. I'll stick to painting!
ReplyDeleteCute pumpkin!! We'll have to try that next year, I've never heard of using cookie cutters. But yours turned out adorable!
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