Pumpkin Carving Time!

The weekend before Halloween, we headed to the Farmer's Market to pick out our carving pumpkin. We found a pretty pumpkin and took it home to carve. According to tradition, Lily and I scooped out the pumpkin guts and daddy carved the pumpkin face. Lily got to design the pumpkin face this year and I think she was pretty excited to be able to do that!

Our pumpkin this year had SO MANY seeds! It was crazy - I don't think I've ever seen a pumpkin with more guts and seeds. It had so many that I felt like I would be wasteful just to toss them out, so I decided to do some roasted pumpkin seeds for snacks. It was actually really easy - I just boiled the cleaned seeds in salt water for about a half hour, drained them and set them out to dry overnight. The next night I tossed them with some melted butter and seasoning salt and roasted them in the oven for about 45 minutes and they turned out great! I got to have them for about 3 days before Stella snagged them off the counter and ate the rest of them... oh well.