I refuse to show a picture of the carving I made because it was lame. I am not an artist and really just get pumpkins so that I can make pumpkin seeds. Sure they would be cheaper to buy, but where is the fun in that? Besides homemade pumpkin seeds are way better. While cleaning out the pumpkin I had the story The Great Old Pumpkin playing in the background. Imagine if H.P. Lovecraft wrote a script for the Peanuts characters. Yeah. This story has become a Halloween staple around here.
I have been in a food funk for a couple of weeks. I really only have time to cook on the weekeds so I get mad at myself when I can't come up with any appealing dinner ideas. This week I was lucky enough to get a visit from friends who shared some dried herbs from their garden. I felt a little dirty taking ziploc bags of green leafy substances from them while in a darkened parking lot. Honest officer, it really is oregano! They gave me bags of oregano, dill, and sage. Dill is a tough one, but oregano and sage are easy. To make use of the sage I cooked a pot of cannellini beans and turned them in bean broth for soup and beans "in the style of songbirds". I love the names Italians give to their food.
Here is a picture of the leftover beans. Yikes! I bet they end up in my freezer for use another day.
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