Becke wrote:
Hey, the possum is out on my deck with the raccoons. I'd better warn him to hightail out of here before he gets made into possum pie! I think I'll stick with the pumpkin seeds.
Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks! 
Now does anyone have apple recipes??
Michelle_Buonfiglio wrote:Hey, TiggerBear and KathyS, I even scrolled back before I posted and missed the recipe, so thanks for posting! d'oh!
So, the oil thing? I never thought of it, which probably was my first and biggest mistake -- as well as the 'removing all the goop.' So I started out with totally dried-out seeds. Bake those, and no wonder they were pathetic in the end.
These recipes sound so great! I love the idea of messing around w/seasonings, and letting my kids choose which ones they want to add, cause they each have faves and like different spices -- and both like stuff pretty spicy.
The final products sound so much better than the boxed pumpkin seeds we used to buy as kids with the "Indian Chief" on the front. Do you remember those? Maybe they were regional.
Pumpkin-carving time is pretty fun around our house, and one of the traditions I canmanage to a)remember and b) actually make happen. So I may be able to add this to the festivities of putting big, sharp knives into the hands of my kids. Now I can include boiling oil. What fun!!!Thanks, guys! And becke, we all worship at your feet as our Goddess of the Greenery...
Yeah nationaly sold ones come from the David company. And hubby found a online seed and nut shipper that will sell them by the pound.
You can, and I do wash off the goop. Just remeber they need to be fresh seeds. Yesterday's are no good.
Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks! 
Now does anyone have apple recipes??
TiggerBear wrote:
How many do you want?
Well... I have 17 preschoolers enrolled- about 5 cups should cover it!
FindingLydia wrote:
FindingLydia wrote:Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks!
TiggerBear wrote:
How many do you want?
Well... I have 17 preschoolers enrolled- about 5 cups should cover it!
(scratching head) Preschoolers hugh? Hmm ok I've got one preschoolers can make themselves.
Tools needed
Muffin tin, one slot for each child
Butter knives, the plastic ones should do the trick
and a few apple core punchers
one oven set to 350
big bowl
mixing spoon
bowls to eat out of and forks to eat with
a few plates, one for each corer
Ingredients
1 apple per child (Fiji, granny smith, empires, gala - any of those will do; you want a baking apple)
Cinamon about 1 pinch worth per apple
Sugar about 2 spoons worth per apple
soft butter about 3 pats worth per apple
can of spray grease
servings of milk
Have each child wash their hands.(good food safety lesson time there) With supervision have each child wash and core their apple. Use the plate under nenith the apple while coring, it helps. In a bowl blend butter, sugar, and cinamon. Have each child stuff their apple hole with the butter mixture, with the plastic knives. Fingers will work too, but that gets messy. Grease the muffin tin. Have them place their apple in a greased muffin slot. If there is any left over butter mixture, grace the tops of the apples with it. Slide in muffin tin into oven. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks! Now does anyone have apple recipes??
TiggerBear wrote:
How many do you want?
Well... I have 17 preschoolers enrolled- about 5 cups should cover it!
TiggerBear wrote:
(scratching head) Preschoolers hugh? Hmm ok I've got one preschoolers can make themselves.
Tools needed
Muffin tin, one slot for each child
Butter knives, the plastic ones should do the trick
and a few apple core punchers
one oven set to 350
big bowl
mixing spoon
bowls to eat out of and forks to eat with
a few plates, one for each corer
Ingredients
1 apple per child (Fiji, granny smith, empires, gala - any of those will do; you want a baking apple)
Cinamon about 1 pinch worth per apple
Sugar about 2 spoons worth per apple
soft butter about 3 pats worth per apple
can of spray grease
servings of milk
Have each child wash their hands.(good food safety lesson time there) With supervision have each child wash and core their apple. Use the plate under nenith the apple while coring, it helps. In a bowl blend butter, sugar, and cinamon. Have each child stuff their apple hole with the butter mixture, with the plastic knives. Fingers will work too, but that gets messy. Grease the muffin tin. Have them place their apple in a greased muffin slot. If there is any left over butter mixture, grace the tops of the apples with it. Slide in muffin tin into oven. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
(laughing at self) I'm so silly! I was wondering how you were going to get those pumpkin seeds to me. Guess my mind was elsewhere! That is a grreat recipe!!! I will try it later in September and let you know how it goes! I love to have my plans done ahead of time Thanks a bunch for the recipe!
Stoned dates also make a nice stuffing for cored apples.
TiggerBear wrote:
FindingLydia wrote:
FindingLydia wrote:Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks!
TiggerBear wrote:
How many do you want?
Well... I have 17 preschoolers enrolled- about 5 cups should cover it!
(scratching head) Preschoolers hugh? Hmm ok I've got one preschoolers can make themselves.
Tools needed
Muffin tin, one slot for each child
Butter knives, the plastic ones should do the trick
and a few apple core punchers
one oven set to 350
big bowl
mixing spoon
bowls to eat out of and forks to eat with
a few plates, one for each corer
Ingredients
1 apple per child (Fiji, granny smith, empires, gala - any of those will do; you want a baking apple)
Cinamon about 1 pinch worth per apple
Sugar about 2 spoons worth per apple
soft butter about 3 pats worth per apple
can of spray grease
servings of milk
Have each child wash their hands.(good food safety lesson time there) With supervision have each child wash and core their apple. Use the plate under nenith the apple while coring, it helps. In a bowl blend butter, sugar, and cinamon. Have each child stuff their apple hole with the butter mixture, with the plastic knives. Fingers will work too, but that gets messy. Grease the muffin tin. Have them place their apple in a greased muffin slot. If there is any left over butter mixture, grace the tops of the apples with it. Slide in muffin tin into oven. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
TiggerBear wrote:. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
I think my kids will love this, too, TiggerBear! And my daughter would love to use her hands to stuff the butter mixture into the apple. She loves to get all gooey when she's working w/food, like it's sculpting or something. Only problem is, she wants to do it at the dinner table, and it always looks like an animal's been nesting at her place by the time dinner's over. Did I mention she's almost ten? But she's a really good kid, so I just sigh and talk about the things we can do at home, but not other folks' homes...
Choisya wrote:Stoned dates also make a nice stuffing for cored apples.
TiggerBear wrote:
FindingLydia wrote:
FindingLydia wrote:Some crunchy pumpkin seeds sound good. I usually make them w/ my preschool class. I was glad to see the ideas- I can use them in the fall! Thanks!
TiggerBear wrote:
How many do you want?
Well... I have 17 preschoolers enrolled- about 5 cups should cover it!
(scratching head) Preschoolers hugh? Hmm ok I've got one preschoolers can make themselves.
Tools needed
Muffin tin, one slot for each child
Butter knives, the plastic ones should do the trick
and a few apple core punchers
one oven set to 350
big bowl
mixing spoon
bowls to eat out of and forks to eat with
a few plates, one for each corer
Ingredients
1 apple per child (Fiji, granny smith, empires, gala - any of those will do; you want a baking apple)
Cinamon about 1 pinch worth per apple
Sugar about 2 spoons worth per apple
soft butter about 3 pats worth per apple
can of spray grease
servings of milk
Have each child wash their hands.(good food safety lesson time there) With supervision have each child wash and core their apple. Use the plate under nenith the apple while coring, it helps. In a bowl blend butter, sugar, and cinamon. Have each child stuff their apple hole with the butter mixture, with the plastic knives. Fingers will work too, but that gets messy. Grease the muffin tin. Have them place their apple in a greased muffin slot. If there is any left over butter mixture, grace the tops of the apples with it. Slide in muffin tin into oven. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
Well the idea with the butter stuff is as the apple cooks it forms a sause with the apple's juices.
Michelle_Buonfiglio wrote:
TiggerBear wrote:. When the apple goes all soft and bubbly remove and allow to cool mostly. Serve up into bowls and enjoy with a nice cold milk.
I think my kids will love this, too, TiggerBear! And my daughter would love to use her hands to stuff the butter mixture into the apple. She loves to get all gooey when she's working w/food, like it's sculpting or something. Only problem is, she wants to do it at the dinner table, and it always looks like an animal's been nesting at her place by the time dinner's over. Did I mention she's almost ten? But she's a really good kid, so I just sigh and talk about the things we can do at home, but not other folks' homes...
Mmm I think my mom would tell you that's familiar.
