pumpkin
On 4/11/2019 10:32 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-04-11 6:33 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:41:48 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> Most Americans won't have anything to do with pumpkins except eat
>>>>>>> their pumpkin pies with Cool Whip during the holidays. Beats the
>>>>>>> heck out of me what the rest of the world thinks/does about/with
>>>>>>> these large, freaky, hollow, squashes.
(snipped)
>>> My guess is that it's typical for persons of an advanced age to play
>>> it safe and stick with what they know. Let me assure you that I've
>>> never been one to be afraid of messing up.
>>
>> That would be a guess, and an incorrect one.Â* I'm always experimenting.
>
> Once again his assumptions and guesses are wrong.Â* I am still willing to
> try new things. If I have something good in a restaurant I will try to
> figure out how to do it at home. I often see recipes that appeal in
> magazines and newspapers and give them a try. My wife has credited me a
> number of times for spotting good recipes that way.
>
I've replicated many recipes I've had in restaurants at home. I learned
how to cook things like that by reading, tasting, experimenting. dsi1
likes to make broad statements (mostly about "Americans") that simply
aren't true. Pumpkins are widely used in cooking and Oreos (?) have
nothing to do with it.
Jill
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