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Community Pumpkin Carving!

Martin-O2 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:07:57 GMT

Hey everyone,

With Halloween just around the corner it's time to show off your carving skills with some traditional pumpkin carving!

We'd love to see your creative efforts this Halloween so feel free to go mad with you carving! You can do a traditional scary face, something mobile or O2 related or something completely off the wall and unique.

The Community team will be posting our carving very soon!

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

viridis — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:39:47 GMT

Wouldn't do it this early tbh

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Martin-O2 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:03:43 GMT

@viridis the thread will be open for the duration so people can jump in as and when they get around to doing something.

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

viridis — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:11:49 GMT

Excellent.
Now, as not many people know, pumpkins are actually record breakers, for the wrong reasons...
They are the UK's most wasted food item.
So, as I'm now green n shiz.
Here's a recipe for pumpkin soup.

Ingredients (serves two):

700g of pumpkin, skinned and chopped into 2cm pieces
25g of butter
One medium onion, chopped
275ml of double cream or full-fat milk
275ml of stock
salt and pepper
How to make:

Melt butter in deep saucepan on medium heat
Add onion and stir until soft
Add pumpkin
Season well with salt and pepper
Lower the heat and leave for around 10 minutes, letting the vegetables sweat
Pour in cream/milk
Cover pan and let the mixture simmer gently for around 20 minutes
Pour in food processor/blender and puree - it doesn't need to be completely smooth, so don't worry if there's still a bit of texture
Serve soup, when hot.

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Bambino — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:16:02 GMT

Here's one I made earlier....

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Cleoriff — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:22:35 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
Here's one I made earlier....

Crying with laughter now.....

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

viridis — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:25:11 GMT

Perfection

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

jonsie — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:37:52 GMT

The likeness is frightening.....

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Martin-O2 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:47:20 GMT

That sounds delicious @viridis! I'll have to add this one to my recipe book.

That's a very well carved pumpkin @Bambino! The likeness is uncanny.

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

viridis — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:55:44 GMT

Speaking of Halloween, thought I'd give Resident evil 7 on PSVR a go last night....
Didn't sleep a wink. Bloody horrific in VR

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:20:34 GMT

I’m sitting this one out, but I’ll be interested to see what everyone else comes up with!

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:37:50 GMT

Morrisons have very large pumpkins called Rambo Pumpkins

The pumpkin soup sounds 'very warming' @viridis

@Bambino gotta luv the Trump pumpkin

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

dgilbert2 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:33:52 GMT

@Bambino - brilliant carving on the left

@viridis - bar humbug, or the equivalent for Halloween

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

TallTrees — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:32:18 GMT

Hi @Bambino

Here's one I made earlier....

Cor ! that is remarkable! Love it

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Marjo — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:22:41 GMT

@Anonymous Rambo Pumpkins! I'd love to see the size of those.

I'm assuming they are at least slightly smaller than these ones though....

@viridis that soup sounds amazing!

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 06:05:12 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Excellent.
Now, as not many people know, pumpkins are actually record breakers, for the wrong reasons...
They are the UK's most wasted food item.
So, as I'm now green n shiz.
Here's a recipe for pumpkin soup.

Ingredients (serves two):

700g of pumpkin, skinned and chopped into 2cm pieces
25g of butter
One medium onion, chopped
275ml of double cream or full-fat milk
275ml of stock
salt and pepper
How to make:

Melt butter in deep saucepan on medium heat
Add onion and stir until soft
Add pumpkin
Season well with salt and pepper
Lower the heat and leave for around 10 minutes, letting the vegetables sweat
Pour in cream/milk
Cover pan and let the mixture simmer gently for around 20 minutes
Pour in food processor/blender and puree - it doesn't need to be completely smooth, so don't worry if there's still a bit of texture
Serve soup, when hot.

@viridis ... using the seeds, one year, my sister cleaned them up, washed & dried them then threaded them onto what then would have been shirring elastic to make herself a pumpkin seed bracelet ... she is Arty Farty

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

Glory1 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 03:11:42 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
Here's one I made earlier....

It's his spitting image, not to mention rather apt @Bambino

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

dgilbert2 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:55:52 GMT

I still cannot work out which one the pumpkin is? Should have gone to sp********!

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

TallTrees — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:12:40 GMT

Hi 🙋 @dgilbert2
The one on the right looks more intelligent🙂

Re: Community Pumpkin Carving!

dgilbert2 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:17:58 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:

The one on the right looks more intelligent🙂

We'll be in trouble