I like autumn holidays, especially when pumpkins are involved. This year’s pumpkin vines have produced the most calabazas ever. I credit the abundance to Eagle’s weeding and watering the vegetables this summer.
May all your pies be pumpkin.
¡Olé! -Rebecca
PS Pumpkin eaters is a term of endearment in our family. -R
This post is part of Cee’s Flower of the day.
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I love my mother-in-law’s pumpkin pie.. It’s crustless and rich and I look forward to it every year.
Do you enjoy Thanksgiving or Halloween more?
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Sounds delicious. They are two favorite holidays in our household. Both! Thanks for asking. How about you?
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They’re our favorite holidays here as well. Great food, cooler weather, getting the family together.. and you don’t have to worry about the stress of gifts just yet.
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Yes, family, food and fun!
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You’ve got to love that very thin line between fun and outright chaos with family during the holidays.
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Nice pumpkin 🎃
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I like pumpkin anything. Happy pumpkin eating.
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Thanks, Suzette! Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie; so many choices. : )
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Yes, delicious all of them. Pumpkin soup a favorite in the winter.
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Yes, traditionally I make a curried squash soup for our Día de los Muertos party, butternut squash or pumpkin.
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Delicious!!
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Thank you. So many ways to enjoy autumn!
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😍🍂
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I like pumpkins a lot, mainly in curries and soups. I can’t quite handle sweetened pumpkin.
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Thanks for your comments, Margaret. Pumpkin curry is very delicious. I think pumpkin is sweet and I just add a banana or apple juice to make it a desert.
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I like pumpkin sabji, that’s it 🙂
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I looked up a recipe. Looks like a pumpkin curry and sounds tasty with the coconut milk and spices.
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What a great idea for P today 😀 😀
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Thank you, Cee. I had a dentist appointment this morning (no cavities, yay), so I will visit the P flower garden shots from your challenge this afternoon. Thanks for hosting!
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Any idea why your family started using ‘Pumpkin Eater’??
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Thanks, Carolyn. My dad says he was inspired to create his own by all the terms of endearment for children in German the year he worked at an office in Munich.
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Ahhh my sad pumpkins all got devoured this year by some critters. I had a ton of them growing but unfortunately they didn’t last. Maybe next year I’ll put them in our greenhouse when it’s built 🤪. I did buy some though! I’m waiting in line as we speak to pick Nikolai up from school so we can run home and get to carving 🔪 🎃
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So sad about the pumpkins. We have metal mesh bell shaped hideaways to protect the pumpkins, which helps. Would be kind of the critters to leave a couple pumpkins! Sounds like a fun afternoon carving.
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I thought for sure we’d have a ton this year but nope! No such luck. The mesh sounds like a brilliant idea
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They were a present from my mom, from the Gsrdeners catalogue. Gave me something to harvest this year; saved from the rabbits and squirrels. How did your pumpkin carving go? Will you share photos?
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I’ve tried several times to grow pumpkins but without success.
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Darn, is it too dry perhaps?
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To be fair, I just had my first pumpkin spice latte of the year. Not exactly made from real pumpkin (more like pumpkin powder, haha), but same difference! Wishing you a lovely fall season!
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Autumn has now in full swing in LA, now you’ve sampled your first pumpkin latte of the year! 😉 Enjoy your autumn too! Any trips to Sonoma planned to taste the fruit of the vines?
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I wish! Hopefully someday!
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Your weather looks temperate today, but not very cold. Around 60F (15c) to 80 (25 C). Our high today was 60F. Maybe in December for y’all?
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How wonderful. Enjoy! I grew pumpkins years ago. 😊
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We grow Butternut Squash rather than pumpkins (we prefer the taste). But this years harvest i England is very poor. Our squashes are less than half their normal size, despite copious watering. The soil is just so dry – it was baked by unprecedented 42C (108F) temperatures.
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Wow, Kim that’s terribly hot! Sorry about the disappointing harvest. Butternut squash is another favorite.
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It was so hot this summer, we had spontaneous fires in London! One was at the airbase where my brother works…..
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Well that would be scary. What caught fire?
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Dry vegetation in gardens or on roadsides. The airbase, RAF Northolt in west London , had a lot of grassland that burned. Houses were destroyed in east London.
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Scary fires. Happens in California too. Hope we humans get the message.
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So do I!!
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enjoy the pumpkins! I know you will 🙂
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Yes, to eat and to carve!
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