Posted on 11/26/2014 9:37:38 AM PST by cyclotic
I picked up a individual single-serve container of coffee creamer and absentmindedly poured it into my morning cup. Someone had filled the plain creamer tub with pumpkin-spice.
Yuk!
I love growing them. I have no use for them otherwise.
That’s like the other one I heard. A golf course is a waste of a good rifle range.
I say that anytime we start saying we hate a food group, it just indicates how overfed we are as a people.
All of the gourds are easy to grow, I started my own patches when I was seven and they always thrived.
I prefer all the gourds, zucchini, eggplant, squash or even pumpkin, over the cruciforms. I have some friends who dislike all gourds. What is wrong with an eggplant parmigiana or mousaka anyway?
Which does not mean that I will not eat le petit chou, big cabbage or broccoli.
Hunger is the best spice and everyone should keep that in mind if we start experiencing economic hardship.
A little too round, funny teeth and skin the color of John Boehner.
LOL without the spices, it’s pretty boring. Y’all are making me so hungry. I love pumpkin spice coffee and hazelnut BUT I only get it at Wawa and it is mixed half and half with regular coffee, black. Both are too strong. The hazelnut makes me sick after drinking it for a couple of days so it can’t be good for me. Thanks for the post. I went and found a recipe and saved it for better times.
I like pumpkins/pumpkin spice. It’s a flavor of autumn, and autumn is my favorite season. I limit usually myself to pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, although I had an excellent bowl of pumpkin soup (not sweet, but with a dash of nutmeg) while traveling a few years back. I had some hearty bread with it and washed it down with a nice dark beer. I don’t do pumpkin spice coffee, because I prefer coffee black.
I think some of the applications of pumpkin spice are a little odd, but I don’t feel put upon by something as innocuous as a flavoring someone else might like. I’m thankful for a variety of things to choose from. We can all choose what we like, and not choose what we don’t like. Evidently a lot of people like pumpkin spice enough that it winds up in all kinds of unexpected places.
you know in my mind bread/cake/muffins, all in the same family - texture and taste wise. Grins and Giggles
We grow several hundred pounds of pumpkins and their other winter squash relatives every year. They’re an important source of calories at my house in the fall and winter.
I make a pumpkin coffee cake that my kids love heated for breakfast. And hubby loves pumpkin pie sweetened with brown sugar and, yes, pumpkin pie spice. The smaller winter squash get baked the traditional way and then eaten with a tab of butter and half teaspoon of brown sugar, as a side.
It’s a seasonal thing. And when they’re gone, they’re gone till next year.
They, along with corn, peppers and tomatoes are some of the truly only American foods out there. My ancestors have grown them for thousands of years. Grow the right varieties that have some disease and insect resistance and it’s like free food if you have the space for them.
Eyew! LOL!
Pumpkin pie is ok, pumpkin cake roll is better. That pretty much sums it up for me. Without the cream cheese frosting, it’s not as good. Seeing it in everything from popcorn to drinks now, doesn’t make me want to run out and buy it.
I like butternut squash which my mom used to make pumpkin pie. I like it with butter, salt and pepper though.
Love Pumpkin bread, pie, etc. however, when I make it, I do not use Pumpkin pie spice as I really dislike nutmeg...I suspect other haters of “Pumpkin spice” flavored items are similarly afflicted. It tastes like perfume to me...GAG!
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