Exstatica

The title goes one way, I’m going to go the other. First lets start off with some DnB. One of my favorite essential mixes by Pendulum.

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Now onto some Pumpkin Pie. Hava brought over some pumpkins the night before Halloween. 5 of them to be exact. She had realized that I had such a lack of decorations. After all I am a guy that lives alone, and I live so far off the street that my Mail carrier can’t find the path to my house let alone some trick or treaters. So why decorate? This is actually the first year I havn’t decorated. I moved to this place about 7 months ago. Its my little beach shack, close to the water, far away from the street. I really like it.

Anyway, back to the pumpkin story. So Hava decides she wants to carve pumpkins, she offers to bring pumpkins, then asks if I have a pumpkin carving kit thing. Well yeah of course I do (not). I hang up with her, and make a mad dash to the store. After all I didn’t want her buying everything. On my way to the store I call Sister and invite her to the Pumpkin carving escapade. I do have a fridge full of beer. So we go from Ralphs, to Vons, to CVS, to Target, to Riteaid. Nada. Not a single pumpkin carving kit. What do we do instead? We roam the isles of Riteaid, and end up in the kitchen ware isle. Knives, peelers, giant spoons, come on, we have everything we need right there. Head back to the house, crack open a few beers and wait for Hava to show up with the pumpkins.

Not 5 minutes into carving….. ha, you thought one of us were going to end up in the hospital huh? Beer and Kitchen knives. (we thought we would too). Hava cuts the lid off the pumpkin and shouts “This sucks, I’m not carving pumpkins anymore”. What the crap Hava, it was your idea!

Sister and myself finished ours, Hava went to the store to get something that would assist in her intoxication, and sister finished her pumpkin.

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Sister & I + Beer – 1
Hospital – 0

I was trying to go for a house with a moon and crap, but come on. I had none of the right stuff, and well it turned more into a Frankenstein with a tumor. Really the point of carving pumpkins was not to carve something that looks really awesome, but more so just to hang out with good friends, drink and attempt to carve something really awesome.  We did just that. We attempted, failed, enjoyed, and yet were still completely satisfied.

Minus the dog who attempted to assist by disposing of the insides of the pumpkin. He was good at first, then tried to consume all insides while we were not paying attention. It was pretty funny actually.

We only carved 3 pumpkins, which means 2 left over with nothing done. So I’m going to make pumpkin pie. Not that I really know anyone who like Pumpkin pie, but screw you, I didn’t make it for you, I made it for me, and I love Pumpkin pie!

So here is recipe that I’ve made up out of a combination of many others.

First we need Pumpkin Puree.

1. Preheat the oven to 325f
2. Slice open the pumpkins and cut them into chunks and lay them face up. (make sure you clean them out, Skin can stay)
3. Bake those bad boys for 45-60 minutes (yeah its a large margin as if your oven sucks like mine, then its closer to an hour)
4. let it cool and remove the membrane and skin.

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups of pumpkin (to puree this pumpkin just add the membrane to a blender or food processor. You can freeze it if you have leftover.
2. 2 eggs
3. 1 1/2 cups of condensed milk
4. 1/2 brown sugar
5. 1/2 white sugar
6. 1 tsp cinnamon
7. 1/2 tsp ginger (I enjoy fresh ginger way better, but its much harder to mix)
8. 1/4 tsp nutmeg
9. 1/8 tsp cloves
10. a pie crust about 9 inches

Directions:

1. Once again preheat the oven but this time to 425f
2. mix the pumpkin and milk together
3. mix the spices and sugar together, and then add the pumpkin mixture (I do it separately since otherwise its uneven.)
4. Mix the beaten eggs into the mixture
5. poor into the pan with the pie crust
6. Bake that bad boy for about 15 minutes. Then turn it down to 350f and then bake for 45 minutes
7. you’ll know its done when you stick something into it like a fork and it comes out clean.

Cool this delicious pie, and eat. Make sure you do it in this order or you will burn yourself from hot pumpkin pie. I assume that this is probably the reason that most of you don’ t like pumpkin pie, and well thats your own fault. Don’t put something hot in your mouth unless you have been specifically trained to do so.

Don’t forget to add some Cool W-hip.

I almost forgot, The new Kitchen project. I have these huge whiteboards in my office. They are actually pieces of panel board that came from Lowes. THey are white finished and you can write on them with a dry erase marker, I want to line all the large spots of my kitchen with said board. That way I could write on it things to get, draw pictures of dinosaurs, and take notes of something that has to do with the kitchen. So thats the plan for the very near future.