halloween, pumpkin pie, and other sweets

this year for halloween i was a taco shell/tortilla with my friends. we had a lady caca/ground beef, a salad and a pencil/cheese. it worked, to an extent...as long as we told people what we were.

so prior to halloween i got an email back informing me that i was due to bake for the soup kitchen, and so i went to the market and bought a wee little pie pumpkin. those guys are so cute. the man who sold it to me made sure i wasn't just buying it because it was pretty, so as an aside, please don't belittle your customer because she might look like she orders takeout and calls that food.

the pies were pretty tasty. the bottom of one stuck (complete accident), so i was able to sample one of them, and it did indeed taste like pumpkin pie. hoo-rah, i still have the touch.

well i had a lot of pumpkin seeds leftover, and nymag had some recipes featured on how to use up pumpkin seeds, other than just roasting them and crunching on them every time you pass the bowl in the kitchen. and so, pumpkin seed and chocolate peanut brittle was born. i will look for the link. the toffee part was by far the easiest thing i have ever cooked. not only that, but it tasted like heaven.

flash forward to a few days ago, and i get another email about baking, this week for apples. i went to bed with the joy of cooking last night trying to find something resembling an apple crumble, but i guess in 1969 there was nothing called apple crumble. i did eventually find a page with apple and peach cobbler, apple/plum cake cockaigne, fresh fruit crisp... i settled on the apple cake cockaigne. i added in some quinces and some pears, put a little extra streusel type mixture on top, and made enough to have a tester mini. i would much prefer sending something i've already tasted, especially if other people will be eating it. see my anxious food post below.

we'll see. don't get much feedback, which is not too much of a problem. matthew thought it was good, and all i can hope is that someone else enjoys it too.

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halloween happenings also included taking the big bag of freezer composting to the actual north brooklyn compost site. dumped it in, put some leaves in the bin, put some more in...it was rather uneventful, but it was nice to walk around on a pretty warm halloween day and see all the little kiddies dressed up in their adorable costumes.

til next year.