Pumpkin

One week before Halloween, Peytone’s mom, Deby, and dad, Chris, called her to come to the kitchen. Her brother, Luke, was there also. “Do you want to carve your pumpkin before your hip-hop recital?” “Yes, please.” They carved the pumpkins and Peytone’s pumpkin looked the scariest. Then they went to the hip-hop recital. When she was dancing, Peytone had to come off the stage because . . . she broke her leg! Peytone ended up in a wheelchair. Tomorrow, she would see how long she would be in a…

that Allison preferred writing with capital letters rather than lowercase which suggested she needed more practice with learning lowercase letters. For this activity, I cut small orange pumpkins and wrote each lowercase letter of the alphabet on the pumpkins and mixed them up in the pile. Allison picked a pumpkin from the pile and told me what the letter was. She recognized almost every letter that she chose from the pile with only slight confusion with the letters “b” and “d”. When asked to…

that could not use my hands to pour out the gravy. My friend was kind enough to help me pour gravy on my mashed potatoes. Trust me those were the best mashed potato and gravy I ever had in my life. There were three types of pies. Cherry, Apple and Pumpkin pie. All three looked satisfying to me though I could not pick. I selected an apple pie with vanilla ice-cream on top. My friends selected a slice apple pie and a slice…

To comply with the British theme, I have chosen to make pumpkin loaf. The health value of this loaf wasn’t overly great however, there are elements of value in there such as the 650g of pumpkin. There was also a lot of brown sugar and butter. Pumpkin loaf is only a ‘sometimes’ food that could be eaten at a morning tea or as a snack. When making the pumpkin loaf, I used techniques such as folding, cubing, boiling and beating. The pumpkin was cut into small cubes and placed on a microwave safe…

soil and something strange happened; everything was quiet. The leaves on the trees stopped rattling; everything was still. All of a sudden, the ground started to tremble and outgrew an enormous pumpkin about the size of a 100-years-old tree. Demeter was shocked and curious of what was in the pumpkin. The pumpkin cracked in half and in front of Demeter stood a full grown girl about the age of Persephone. The girl had soft golden skin and the most beautiful blue eyes. Her lushes brown hair was…

What can be a better way of celebrating the Homemade Soup Day than with a bowl of sizzling chicken soup? This Homemade Soup Day, relish your soups and let your body reap in the benefits that a bowl of veggie or meat soup provides. Soups, be it vegetable soup or chicken soup, are essentially healthy as it is packed with the goodness of vegetables and is cooked minus oil. And, the health benefit of chicken soup, especially for common cold, has been known since ancient times and considered a…

Breakfast - What you feed your body upon waking is so important, especially for children. It is what feeds our brains and gets us going for the day so it is important to make that first meal count. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of nutritional value in the typical American breakfast cereal for instance. It is estimated that every 1 in 3 children starts their day off with a bowl of cereal. Most breakfast cereals tend to have a serving size of ¾ of a cup. Let’s be real here….when is the last…

to the roots of one of the many subcultures that make up American culture. One such tradition, practiced for Halloween, is the jack-o’-lantern. The jack-o’-lantern is made by hollowing the inside of a pumpkin and then carving a spooky face into the outer shell. Once the face is carved into the pumpkin and the inside of the shell is dry, a candle is placed inside the shell to illuminate the face with a flickering flame. Like many of America’s modern day traditions, the origin of the…

period and halloween is only one day. During day of the dead they visit cemetery, leave food offerings shaped like skulls at the altar along with candles, incense and a picture of the dead person. During halloween we carve jack`o lanterns out of pumpkins, decorate the house with all spooky stuff and try to get people scared, parties, and go door to door trick or treating getting a bunch of candy. The similarity is they both threw big parties and eat food. The second topic is food there is a…

Jack-O’-Lantern History On halloween or maybe even a week before, do you make jack-o-lanterns? Jack-o-lanterns come from Ireland ideas which, they first carved faces into turnips and potatoes. They did not use pumpkins because Ireland was not introduced/had pumpkins until someone figured it was a better canvas in America. Jack-o-lanterns were used (as turnips and potatoes) to ward off evil spirits and had an ember in it. Jack-o-lanterns come from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack.…