Posted on 10/03/2011 5:30:58 AM PDT by knarf
So, I grew all these mammoth sunflowers ..
I just eat the shells too....good fiber. Same for peanuts...sometimes I eat their shells too.
Also, for the pumpkin guy, they DO have shells....and you eat them....
the things one learns here!
And coconuts?
Let the swallow drop them from really high up... ;{)
Funny guy....
But, they are hard on the teeth.....
Now it’s my turn to say “Seriously?” :)
Pumpkin seeds to have shells. At least some of them.
And the “pepitas” they sell do no. They’re just the meats.
Are you saying they just get the young seeds that don’t have shells yet or something like that?
I’m saying that when I grow a pumpkin, then harvest it, then cut it open to cook (or make a jack-o-lantern), I scrape the webbing and seeds out. Then I wash the seeds, place them in a flat layer on a greased baking pan, spray them with cooking oil, salt them, and bake them till golden-brown. Whole.
They are delicious.
Never heard of shelling pumpkin seed. It sounds difficult and not worth the time.
Continuing from post 27:
After a little research, it seems that pumpkin seeds and “pepitas” are one and the same thing.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FKA/is_10_68/ai_n16788588/
They aren’t shelled.
Learned something new today.
The ones we get are shelled.
Browsing around the web a bit, I see things like this:
“A pepita is a Mexican preparation for pumpkin seeds. They can be hulled or not, roasted or not, and salted or not.”
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