Well, okay--they began a while ago, but tonight I decided that I wanted to blog my favorite kitchen creations. We love to make tasty, healthy things to eat. By "healthy," of course, we don't mean to say "without fat" or "prohibitive of bacon," but rather, it means I insist on food without hydrogenated fats, or polysyllabic chemical ingredients that don't exist in nature. And conveniently for me, my girlfriend, the Lioness, indulges my preferences!
Living on a modest budget, we cannot always afford to buy organic groceries, but we try to get as much as possible. In the kitchen, most often the Lioness helps out by chopping, making suggestions, and nibbling on pre-assembly morsels of delicious. We have no formal culinary training or anything like that, but we do love to try our hands at our favorite foods--including Korean, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese dishes. We intend to learn more about Indian and Chinese cooking in the near future. Of course, learning to cook first requires the tasting of good food and then the attempt at reproduction. So, this blog will contain a fair share of taste testing and food-related stories too!
So, without further ado, here is a pumpkin that we carved tonight:
The Lioness, having completed the scooping out of the pumpkin, set about roasting the pumpkin seeds. She coated the seeds in olive oil, spread them on a sheet of parchment paper on a cookie sheet, sprinkled liberally with salt and baked them for 25 minutes at 325 degrees. Yum!
As a side note, earlier this year the NY Times published an article called The 11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating in which pumpkin seeds ranked #7. Good for us AND delicious? What a great way to start for the Rolling Boil Food Blog!
