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Memories of toasted pumpkin seedsPosted Oct 17th 2007 10:33AM by Marisa McClellanFiled under: Snacks, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, RecipesI have very strong memories of carving pumpkins when I was a kid. My parents would cover the dining room table in newspaper, bring out strong serving spoons (for scraping down the inside of the pumpkin) and put a large metal mixing bowl in the middle of the table. All the pumpkin innards would go into that bowl and while my sister, dad and I were happily carving our pumpkins into goofy, spooky faces, my mom would get the not-so-nice job of separating the pumpkin guts from the seeds. She was meticulous about liberating every last seed from the slimy strings of pumpkin entrails. She'd rinse the seeds well and dry them in a single layer on a kitchen towel. Then she'd spread them out on a rimmed baking sheet, sprinkle them with salt and roast them in the oven until they turned golden brown. I loved taking a little container of these roasted pumpkin seeds to school with me for an after lunch treat and I was always sad when they were gone. Yesterday I toasted up the seeds from a small baking pumpkin I had. I didn't do it quite the way my mom used to. Instead, I melted a small pat of butter in a medium non-stick skillet. When it was melted, I added the seeds and let them start to toast. When they were getting near the brown color I was going for, I added some kosher salt, cracked pepper and crushed, dried rosemary leaves. A couple last tosses in the pan to combine the seasonings and they were done. Just like childhood (if even slightly better).
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