Here it is! One of the few pumpkin recipes on my blog. It is October, so I had to do at least one pumpkin recipe, right? Speaking of pumpkins, are you a carve or paint kind of pumpkin person? We are a house divided. Everybody is ok with carving as long as they don’t have to do it or touch the pumpkin guts. If I ask Andy and Mike what they would prefer, they will always choose painting because it involves no pumpkin guts. Jack on the other hand. I think he is my man. He has a thing for all things messy and sensory related. I don’t know what it is, but something about gutting the pumpkin and squishing the scooped out seeds and flesh between your fingers, brings me back to childhood. My Dad was the expert carver. We would all three cover the dinner table with newspaper, get mom’s biggest silver serving spoons, open our little pumpkin carving knife packs, and wait for my dad to perform surgery on our pumpkins. He would have to use a big serrated knife in the end because , you know, those little orange knives from the set always bend and …

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