{"id":15340,"date":"2011-10-27T02:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=15340"},"modified":"2012-05-07T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:59:23","slug":"the-tricks-of-pumpkin-and-squash-bowl-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/the-tricks-of-pumpkin-and-squash-bowl-making\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tricks of Pumpkin and Squash Bowl Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where in the Halloween<\/strong> did October go? \u00a0Eek! <\/em> I woke up this morning and realized it’s\u00a0five days\u00a0before Halloween and I’ve got to get prepared.\u00a0To be honest though, I’m not scared. \u00a0Halloween is the one holiday where\u00a0I can\u00a0wear a wig\u00a0and a\u00a0LOT of makeup to cover those under eye circles and\u00a0no one\u00a0can say\u00a0a thing.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0100% disguised\u00a0as part of the costume.\u00a0 I love that about Halloween.\u00a0 That and\u00a0the fact that I can wear six inch heels (bringing me up to a solid 5’9″) and people don’t\u00a0presume I do anything\u00a0wrong for a living.\u00a0 Fabulous.<\/em> I love the tricks of Halloween.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0little trick that you can really only use this time of year is utilizing pumpkins and\/or squash\u00a0as tableware.\u00a0 I love doing it because it looks impressive.\u00a0 I hope that doesn’t sound snotty.\u00a0 I\u00a0just enjoy\u00a0tricks that make it look like I put in more effort than perhaps I did!\u00a0 And\u00a0squash and pumpkin bowls\u00a0with very little effort always look beautiful and impressive on a fall tablescape. \u00a0\u00a0 I’m not saying your neighbor is\u00a0going to go\u00a0home screaming from jealousy when she steps into your home and sees your gorgeous squash bowls perfectly set up in a row.\u00a0 But if she did,\u00a0would it make us feel bad?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So today, I’m going to give you my step by step of how to make beautiful pumpkin bowls.<\/p>\n

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1. Choosing your squash. Any hard squash will work. I usually use acorn, but these little pumpkin darlings were just too accessible (if by the\u00a0distant chance my mother actually reads this far into this post, here is where I would need to plead for her forgiveness as she has been blaming the neighbor kids for stealing her pumpkins, and I haven’t even tried to correct her.)<\/p>\n

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2. As always, first things first. Preheat your oven to a toasty 375 degrees and spray your baking pan with a nonstick spray.<\/p>\n

3. Take your beautiful squashes and cut off the tops.\u00a0 If you have any pent up anger, you an pretend your squash is that certain frenemy down the street.\u00a0 I personally\u00a0have no experience whatsoever with it, but I have heard it\u00a0helps. \u00a0About an inch or so from the stem is about right.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0 Time to get dirty. Clean out that squash. Seeds. Stringy flesh. All of it, ladies. This may also be considered an anger-reducing exercise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Just be sure to not scrape too hard on the flesh, especially on the bottom. Ladies, we want to make squash soup bowls – not squash soup colanders.<\/em><\/p>\n

5. If you have a topsy-turvy squash, cut a thin slice off the bottom of the squash so it will stand upright.<\/p>\n

6. At this point, take a break and test the Halloween candy for poison.\u00a0 A good rule of thumb is four or five pieces per bag of candy to ensure %100 child safety.\u00a0 If you are an overprotective mom, you may want to go as far as seven or eight pieces of candy.<\/p>\n

7. Wipe the Halloween chocolate off your face and hide any wrapper evidence in the rubbage bin.<\/p>\n

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\n8. Brush your squashes with canola or olive oil and then lightly sprinkle with salt. Throw a pinch of salt over your shoulder…just for good measure.\u00a0 I always do.<\/p>\n

9. Place your squash bowls on your baking pan and bake for about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

10. Pull\u00a0your squash bowls out of\u00a0the oven and gleefully dance around at how fabulous\u00a0you are.<\/p>\n

Happy Entertaining,
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Where in the Halloween did October go? \u00a0Eek! I woke up this morning and realized it’s\u00a0five days\u00a0before Halloween and I’ve got to get prepared.\u00a0To be honest though, I’m not scared. \u00a0Halloween is the one holiday where\u00a0I can\u00a0wear a wig\u00a0and a\u00a0LOT of makeup to cover those under eye circles and\u00a0no one\u00a0can say\u00a0a thing.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0100% disguised\u00a0as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1051,128,1052],"tags":[1378,1377,1376,1375,1374],"class_list":["post-15340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-holidays-parties","category-thanksgiving","category-tutorialsrecipes","tag-fall-buffets","tag-fall-parties","tag-how-to-make-squash-and-pumpkin-bowls","tag-squash-and-pumpkin-bowls","tag-squash-and-pumpkin-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}