Halloween
Helen and I have mostly been eating pumpkin.
OK, so it's not that bad, even with me carving four large pumpkins Helen has been using her imagination and we have had spicy pumpkin soup, pumpkin risotto, pumpkin cakelets, pumpkin stew, pumpkin cake and there is plenty of pumpkin left in the freezer plus Helen bought me pumpkin beer again this year. I had to go to Pittsfield, MA this week for a meeting and I'm already jonesing for pumpkin products, especially good old pumpkin pie. Hmmm, pumpkin ice cream anyone?
Talking of pumpkin beer, how is it that most american beer is cold tasteless fizz yet they produce some wonderful beers and have imaginative, wonderfully tasty creations like that; in fact the beer is from the fabulous Dogfishhead Brewery, possibly the greatest thing to come out of Delaware. The same goes for cheese and bread and most of the supermarket offerings, whilst cheap, are bland and textureless. Indeed if you want to buy something that isn't crammed with high fructose corn syrup, etc. you have to pay a premium and sometimes search long and hard to find it in the first place.
So the front lawn is still decorated with fresh graves, the pumpkins are still carved and on display and half of the candy is gone. We didn't have as may trick or treaters as we had last year, probably due to the rain, but they had some wonderful costumes and called on us until quite late in the evening.
OK, so it's not that bad, even with me carving four large pumpkins Helen has been using her imagination and we have had spicy pumpkin soup, pumpkin risotto, pumpkin cakelets, pumpkin stew, pumpkin cake and there is plenty of pumpkin left in the freezer plus Helen bought me pumpkin beer again this year. I had to go to Pittsfield, MA this week for a meeting and I'm already jonesing for pumpkin products, especially good old pumpkin pie. Hmmm, pumpkin ice cream anyone?
Talking of pumpkin beer, how is it that most american beer is cold tasteless fizz yet they produce some wonderful beers and have imaginative, wonderfully tasty creations like that; in fact the beer is from the fabulous Dogfishhead Brewery, possibly the greatest thing to come out of Delaware. The same goes for cheese and bread and most of the supermarket offerings, whilst cheap, are bland and textureless. Indeed if you want to buy something that isn't crammed with high fructose corn syrup, etc. you have to pay a premium and sometimes search long and hard to find it in the first place.
So the front lawn is still decorated with fresh graves, the pumpkins are still carved and on display and half of the candy is gone. We didn't have as may trick or treaters as we had last year, probably due to the rain, but they had some wonderful costumes and called on us until quite late in the evening.
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