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How to Make Pumpkin Pie Straight from the Pumpkin

Sovereign John — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:09:02 +0000

How to Make Pumpkin Pie Straight from the Pumpkin

from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Have you ever wanted to make pumpkin pie straight from a pumpkin, rather than from a can? Here’s how to turn a fresh pumpkin into a delicious pie. It’s easy, fun, tasty and probably cheaper.

Ingredients

1 sugar pumpkin (approximately 6″ in diameter)
2 frozen pie crusts
4 large eggs
1 cup (250ml) milk or cream
1/2 cup (~110g) sugar
Ground cinnamon
Ground nutmeg

Steps

Cut a round cap around the stem and pop it off.
the outer skin from the top]] Peel the tough outer skin of the pumpkin with a sharp knife. Or, another way to remove the skin easily is to wait until after you have boiled the squares of pumpkin (step 5); the skin comes off much more easily after this.
Scoop out the stringy insides and seeds.
Cut the remaining outer shell into squares.
Boil the squares uncovered until they’re soft (the smaller the squares, the faster they’ll cook). The longer you cook, the thicker the resulting texture of the baked pie and the stronger the flavor. Cool and remove skin if you are peeling at this step.
Place the squares into a blender with milk, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste. This will become your filling.
Prepare two bowls, putting a cups worth of filling in each.
Add two eggs to each bowl and mix.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 Celsius, Gas Mark 5).
Transfer the filling from the two bowls to two pie crusts.
Sprinkle gently with cinnamon.
Wrap the pie crust edges in foil so that they don’t burn.
Put the two pies in the oven for 45 minutes. Make sure they are on the same rack. If one gets more heat than the other, you’ll end up with one burnt pie and one uncooked one. Check on your pies after 30 minutes, to avoid burning.
Let them cool at room temperature before eating. Refrigerate leftovers.

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Tips

Line the pie crusts with a layer of thin apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon before pouring in the filling to mix things up.
Sprinkle a teaspoon cumin powder on top of the pie before placing it in the oven for a dramatic flavor.
As an alternative method, instead of boiling and peeling, cut the pumpkin in half at the equator. Scoop the seeds and strings, then place each half cut side down on a sheet pan in a 375 degree (190 Celsius, Gas Mark 5) oven until it is soft and a fork pierces it easily. Let it cool and scoop out the pumpkin, leaving the skin behind.
Another alternative is to cut the pumpkin in half, scoop out seeds and fill part way with water before placing on a sheet pan and proceeding as above.
For a different taste, replace some of the milk with egg nog. You might want to also reduce the sugar to compensate. Sprinkle nutmeg on top instead of cinnamon and you’ve got a taste of Christmas with your pies.

Warnings

Handle the pies carefully when you’re removing them from the oven, as they will be hot.
Make sure you pick the right kind of pumpkin. The large ones are intended for carving, and if you bake with them, the pie will not be very good.

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Sources and Citations

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Rural America

Sovereign John — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:18:52 +0000

http://www.cfra.org/blog

The Center for Rural Affairs was established in 1973 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit by rural Nebraskans and has since grown to a nationally recognized policy analysis and advocacy organization focused on the upper Midwest and Great Plains. In recent years our national grassroots base has grown to nearly 30,000 individuals including people in all 50 states. Our mission is to establish strong rural communities, social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and genuine opportunity for all while engaging people in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities. Our work includes:

* Advocating for federal policies supporting rural community development that reduces poverty, rewards resource stewardship, and strengthens small farms and businesses. In the recent farm bill, the Center won funding for a new microenteprise program to serve low and moderate income rural communities.
* Providing loans, technical assistance and training to small entrepreneurs through our Rural Enterprise Assistance Program (REAP), the nation’s leading statewide rural microenterprise development program.
* Providing comprehensive rural community development services.
* Developing new cooperatives to reach and expand premium markets that reward sustainable agriculture, strengthen family farms, and open the doors of opportunity to beginning farmers.

Preserving Food with Fermentation

Sovereign John — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:20:56 +0000

Thanks to my facebook friend Tim Hamilton for the link to this site http://www.foodrenegade.com/the-basics/fermented-raw/

Tim, this is such an amazingly data rich site. It’s native living at its best. Fermentation of food is something to try to add more valuable nutrition back into our eating habits. I’m 57 so I caught the tale end of home cooked meals as Great Grandma Irene and Grandma Hazel used to spend their days cooking breakfast, then preparing lunch and finally Dinner.

It took all day of preparation and clean up as every food and every dish was prepared from scotch by hand. No mixes, no dish washers, and no processed store bought except for the store bought natural ingredient which we then prepared at home.

If meat was bought at the store, the store butcher was part of your life as he was selling your family food needed to keep the family strong and healthy so local grocery stores had followers not just customers but regulars. Switching grocery stores was a heavy decision back then, unlike today where we shop different groceries for their special sale items.

Sorry to start on about the old days…

Anyway, here part of the data from Tim’s website link:
Every culture has a long tradition of fermented and raw foods — foods that provide for healthy intestinal flora and decrease the load on your pancreas and liver.

Sadly, because of today’s industrial food model, these traditional foods have morphed into something unrecognizable. Corned beef is no longer raw and preserved with salt and spices. Cheese is made from devitalized pasteurized milk. Bread makers rarely use real fermented sourdough starters in their so-called sourdough loafs. And homemakers hardly ever soak their freshly ground whole wheat flour overnight in buttermilk to create the light and fluffy pancakes and biscuits we love to love.

The modern equivalents of age-old fermented foods are nutritionally empty when compared to their historical counterparts.
Take grains, for example. Did you know that traditional societies either soaked, sprouted, or fermented their grains prior to consuming them? While the reasons our ancestors practiced this level of grain preparation are debatable, we do know that sprouting, fermenting, and soaking grains can increase vitamin and mineral content availability by 300-500%
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That’s quite the nutritional kick!

Books on subject:

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods http://bit.ly/1BhkoX

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Amazon.com: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (9780967089737): Sally Fallon: Books http://bit.ly/4jfqs4

Sovereign John — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:41:55 +0000

Kunstfest – Traditional German Festival honoring the founding fathers of New Harmony with music, food, arts & crafts and family fun. Come enjoy New Harmony’s annual celebration of German Heritage with hand made arts & crafts, live musi…c and food. Located throughout the town of New Harmony, ride a horse drawn wagon through New Harmony’s historic streets. Enjoy live music and you enjoy traditional German food and desserts. If you have never experienced Kunstfest, you will want to make sure this year you do.

Photos of Kunstfest in New Harmony Indiana. I’m also going back to take more photos and perhaps video of the events.

My public photo album HERE

John Pilger – Obama and Empire

Sovereign John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:07:20 +0000

John Pilger – Obama and Empire

Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.

Farm Aid 2009

Sovereign John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:29:56 +0000

This is one of the reasons Farm Aid puts on a concert every year to help small farmers stay in business and be able to compete with the Factory farms by offering cleaner, healthier food. Factory farms are why we have so much salmonella — at one time you could actually use raw eggs in making Caesar salad and not worry about disease. Those were the days before chickens were crowded into buildings by the thousands with no sunlight and no room to even move causing stress and illness. All this illness is why factory farmed animals are fed antibiotics and probably why so many antibiotics no longer work on humans. So even if you don’t care about animal cruelty you should understand that factory farms are not the healthiest way to get your food. They are in business for investors and profit is all it is about. Every new factory farm puts a score of family farms out of business, and whereas factory farms generate money for investors that probably don’t even live in the same state, family farms generate money for the local economy. They spend money in their neighbors’ stores and communities.

Plus Farm Aid puts on a really good concert, this year it is on October 4 in St. Louis — you can listen to it online if you can’t get there.

The 2009 Lineup:
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
John Mellencamp
Dave Matthews
Jason Mraz
Wilco
Jamey Johnson
Phosphorescent

Obama’s Slide

Sovereign John — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:45:07 +0000

You can read insightful posts like this one @ http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/

Lots of critics, like David Brooks, reflexively attribute Obama’s rapid slide to a push for more government. Not even close. In fact, that’s lazy thinking.

The rapidity of the slide is due to the Wall Street bailout. Instead of punishment of the perps, we are getting bonuses. Instead of reform to prevent gambling, we get more of the same (even worse, it is being done with an explicit government backstop). Instead of relief for the middle class we get profiteering as the financial industry extracts everything they can from a tapped populace.

Nothing could have eroded trust faster than this. All agenda items after this fiasco are/were forfeit.

18 of Nature’s Most Powerful Medicinal Plants

Sovereign John — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:43:15 +0000

link shared by a friend on Facebook…

http://bit.ly/3yazA

From marijuana to catnip, there are hundreds of remarkably common herbs, flowers, berries and plants that serve all kinds of important medicinal and health purposes that might surprise you: anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, insect repellent, antiseptic, expectorant, antibacterial, detoxification, fever reduction, antihistamine and pain relief. Here are eighteen potent medical plants you’re likely to find in the wild – or even someone’s backyard – that can help with minor injuries, scrapes, bites and pains.*

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PS from Native Living WordPress;

Also you might want to Try Native Remedies Products for the whole family.

Love unLearning but would rather keep the free thinker mindset?

Sovereign John — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:39:08 +0000

Contained within are the musings of a heathen, libertarian, tree-hugging, MMO gaming, personally conservative (for the most part, anyway) military spouse and homeschooling mom of two… fabulotasic sons. People like when things fit in neat, tidy boxes. Sucks for them! http://daughterofthemoon111.blogspot.com/

Video on Demand

Sovereign John — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:04:27 +0000

Video on Demand

Here at the Hoosier Homestead we have tired of running to the video store to return rented DVDs. So we hook up our Macbook to the TV and stream movies we’ve bought or rented. Simple.

There’s plenty of place online such as Hulu that offer free movies and TV shows but when we want to watch the very latest in entertainment we us Video on Demand.

The time it saves running back and forth to the video store means more time for the garden and visiting with family, friends and neighbors.

yours in downshifing,

sovereignjohn