So off they went together. But what to do? Pumpkin pie, bread, muffins? No, said the young beautiful girl, pumpkin doesn't just have to be sweet. She reminisced of some of her favorite dishes she had in Australia where pumpkin was used in savory chicken curry pies, ravioli, and salads. It was not something she had seen before as all of her previous experiences had been in pie form (granted it's her favorite pie to have), but she wanted to make something for an entree rather than dessert. So off came the little pumpkin's top, and her seeds as well, and after a rub down of olive oil and Moroccan spice mix into the toaster oven she went.
20 minutes later she was done and ready to see how the young, beautiful, aspiring cook** would dress her for tonight's event. With her Moroccan spice mix in mind she added couscous, dried cranberries, and shrimp. The effect was a gorgeous and tasty*** marriage of sweet and savory.
The little pumpkin was happy to have achieved more than just becoming a Fall decoration piece and the girl thought that Fall is going to be a fun season to experiment.****
(*author may take liberties in describing herself. You don't like that, well too bad!)
(**cook is a definite exaggeration on the author's part, but you should give her an "A" for effort!)
(***author admits that pumpkin needed a bit more salt, but was otherwise perfectly cooked and quite good.)
(****author did not major in creative writing and realizes that her attempt to write in story format is sub par at best.)
1 comment:
Pas subpar!! It was terribly fun :)
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