Pumpkin

[bunn]

Here he is: I grew him in the garden



I have to admit he made absolutely terrible flavourless soup, but he made a fine pumpkin pie. Well, the amount of butter and ginger and cinnamon and walnuts in there, it would be hard for him to get it very wrong.

I did intend to make a swede one (lantern, not pie. Swede pie sounds - interesting...) as well, but in the end I didn't have the energy.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Cool! :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Excellent! He has great character. He has a crown on, so he's clearly a king, but he doesn't look took happy with that role. I think he finds life as King Pumpkin a little tedious, and he's dreaming longingly of another life in which he's free to marry any fruit or vegetable he likes, rather than have to do a dynastic marriage to a princess from one of the other great pumpkin lantern houses. However, it has just occurred to him that he can probably do some evil deeds to enliven his day, hence the evil half-smile we see on his face.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Someone forgot her tablets again, didn't she?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

For some reason it kept reminding me of skordh which was rather worrying. But I think I've now pinned it down: it's not that it looks like him, it's that it looks rather like his chosen set of mood icons...

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Good recovery!

I think he's excellent. I like the way you've convention on its side by having his stalk as a nose.

[chainmailmaiden]

The pumpkin looks great, shame it was a bit tasteless. I agree though pumpkin pie is usually a great way of making it taste good. I wanted to do one this year but could only get ones 'not for for human consumption' or ones that had gone mouldy and therefore fell into that category by my standards too (though clearly not according to the man flogging them!)

I liked it when Sainsbury's sold 'Munchkin' pumpkins, they were great roasted whole & filled with butter Mmmmm!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Excellent! It has a very definite expression though I'm not sure if it's "meh" or a sidelong whisper to trick or treaters to beware the pumpkin pie ;)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Ahh - that is 'The Bavarian Method'. We went on holiday to Bavaria around the end of October a couple of years ago and noticed that all the pumpkins seemed to be carved that way. It seems to make it easier to carve a real looking face.