A very nice surprise: My plants have been growing twice their size here in L.A.
I've also been enjoying our version of fall here in So Cal.
I found some magnolia leaves and created a small fall arrangement to complement the pumpkins.
My friend, L, an inspiring home chef who is both intuitive and practical in her approach to cooking posted a recipe on cooking with pumpkins here so I took the opportunity to experiment with my pumpkins before they went bad.
My pumpkin seeds are a honeyed curry version.
I also made this salad with roasted pumpkin, broccoli, walnuts, and pomegranate seeds with a light curry mayo dressing (gotta love my current hippie bent towards cooking) but if I were to do it again, I would roast the broccoli and maybe add bacon and shallots (and take out the walnuts and pomegranate seeds). It was a pretty good salad though.
On another note, for my Korean readers--do your parents forage? My parents seem to find things in the forest or at local parks that most Americans don't eat or use but are more common in Korea. Their latest find was mistletoe (I think) for tea. I think it's supposed to lower your blood pressure. Hehe, it's nice to know where MY foraging tendencies come from.
