Pumpkin: limited editions
If you like to follow food trends (and who doesn't), then limited editions & seasonal flavors are grist for your mill. Take pumpkin, currently starring in Starbucks’ pumpkin-flavored latte and Jack in the Box’ pumpkin pie shake, both back for limited runs. Pumpkin = fall. Very now. But what exactly is pumpkin flavor? Does Starbucks’ pumpkin-flavored latte actually taste like squash? Not really. JITB at least tells it like it is by adding the word PIE. But why not just ID it as "cinnamon-nutmeg"?
posted by TG @ 9:59 AM
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17 Comments:
Good going, Teresa. You got two of your fave places in one item, and managed to get in limited edition, too, which made me wonder: Is 7-Eleven doing pumpkin Big Gulps?
I thought I remembererd having a pumpkin-pie shake at Jack in the Box last year?
What! You don't put Ginger in your pumpkin dishes?
m.b. are you asking us to tell you what you thought you remembered? sounds like a job for clairvoyant or soofsayer.
Well, I didn't want to second-guess T.G. I was trying to avoid rudeness.
Sometimes Katie and I play, "What's hiding in the pumpkin patch," a little game we invented wherein I hide a small candy corn somewhere on my body and she has to find it with her tongue. I have a penchant for sticking it in the oddest places.
Lots of pumpkin beers floating around at this time of year, too. I am not a big fan of those, however.
After long delay (based primarily on my memory of fake flavorings of the green apple variety), I tried Unibroue's fall "Ephemere" beer, which is basically a witbier using green apple instead of bitter orange for flavoring. Very nice.
m.b.: reread TG's post. note the words "both back."
Red Ennk, so it does! I skimmed too quickly. (And for a good example of rudeness, see Tom Cruise's comment!)
best pumpkin anything i ever had was one night some years ago when i was testing thanksgiving recipes and couldn't find any canned pumpkin at my grocery store. bought a couple fresh ones and roasted them in the oven. hadn't had supper, so when they were done, about 11 p.m., i had fresh roast pumpkin with butter, salt and pepper. don't recall how the recipe i was testing turned out, but i loved that supper, maybe because i was starved at that point.
How about the seeds. Pumpkin seeds - very tasty. Good on a salad. But it takes a special kind of person to do the roasting, shelling, etc.
don't think you shell them peanut. just clean them and roast with a little oil, stirring occasionally.
Best Pumpkin thing was pumpkin butter at a dinner at the Texas Discovery Gardens. It was in April, but still, the butter was well received by all.
I love pumpkin beer, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin shakes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin etouffe, sauteed pumpkin, pumpkin gumb....
garlic-roasted Pumpkin . . . mmmmm
I always look forward to the Pumpkin ice cream at Braum's. It's a highlight o'the year. Some would say Blue Bell's seasonal peach harvest, but my vote is far and away, the pumpkin ice cream. Although, I readily admit, it could just be Braum's. I've had other versions at Paciugo and the late Talenti, and Wild About Harry's, but Braum's texture is key. Kind of a gritty base...in the best way.
what an xlnt tip from kelly smith! i heart seasonal flavors and had no idea braum's did a pumpkin ice cream. and - as has been previously established - i'm a big fan of grit
i suppose i should've done a special-edition pumpkin week, she said ruefully
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