Last year, Dan, Mark, and Adrienne decided to carve pumpkins at our house in San Diego. Since they had TONS of seeds leftover, I decided to make seeds. This year, I wanted to recreate the seeds I made from last year, and make new ones!
My friend Lindsay and I decided to go to the pumpkin patch and buy HUGE pumpkins. Then, we de-seeded them. After cleaning the pumpkin, we washed the seeds to rid them of any goop.
Then, the real fun began. We raided her spice cabinet to come up with flavor profiles. We decided to do some sweet, some spicy, and some savory. We seperated all our seeds into four bowls, and flavored them from there.
I wanted to re-create my seeds from last year, so I added garlic powder, onion powder, olive oil, and salt and pepper. I made sure that they stayed in the oven long enough so they were extra crunchy.
Then, we started on the other flavors. For the next batch, we added cinnamon, sugar, and apple pie spice to the bowl. We baked these until the sugar caramelized on the seeds.
After, we decided to go spicy! We added cayenne pepper and salt to the next batch and baked them. These were super spicy!
Lindsay and I weren't sure of what to do with the last bowl. Then, she had the genius idea of adding Parmesan cheese to the seeds! The salty-ness and cheesy-ness of the parmesan was the perfect compliment to the savory flavor of the seeds!
All of these seeds were SO ADDICTING! I couldn't stop eating them! YUM!!!
