It's fun to get together with friends to create our jack-o-lanterns.
The great thing about jack-o-lanterns in Fairbanks is that they freeze solid, so they have the potential of being around all winter... or at least until the moose find them. The moose love it when I carve pumpkins for Halloween. This girl was certainly not shy about enjoying my jack-o-lantern for a midnight snack a couple years ago...
It's always fun to scoop out the seeds and the gook from the inside of the pumpkin!
Saving the seeds in a bowl...
and then I picked out all the big chinks of pumpkin gook...
Rinsing the seeds to get some of the sliminess off the seeds...
Sarah swears by soaking the seeds in salt water overnight, but we didn't have the patience for that.... half an hour worked just fine.
We spread the seeds into two different casserole dishes and John sprinkled a bit of paprika (chile powder is good too!) on one and just plain salt on the other.
And then into the oven at 400°F for ~ half an hour until the were nice and toasty brown, stirring occasionally.
Voilà! And then once they cooled, we stuck them in air tight containers.
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