Community Pumpkin Carving!

[Martin-O2]

                          

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!

                          

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Morrisons have very large pumpkins called Rambo Pumpkins 

The pumpkin soup sounds 'very warming' @viridis

@Bambino gotta luv the Trump pumpkin 

[dgilbert2]

@Bambino - brilliant carving on the left 

@viridis - bar humbug, or the equivalent for Halloween 

[TallTrees]

Hi @Bambino 

Here's one I made earlier....

Cor !  that is remarkable!  Love it

[Marjo]

@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! 

[Anonymous]

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@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.

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@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

[Glory1]

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@Bambino wrote:

Here's one I made earlier....

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

[dgilbert2]

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

[TallTrees]

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

[dgilbert2]

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@TallTrees wrote:

The one on the right looks more intelligent🙂

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We'll be in trouble