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A Silly Question Post
Oct. 3rd, 2023 02:35 amI haven't been posting a lot, so I'm letting the Friday Five inspire me tonight.
1. Do you crave pumpkin spice all year long or just in the autumn?
I like all of the spices that, together, make "pumpkin spice", though I don't particularly crave them in autumn. And when I'm cooking I generally don't even think of them as "pumpkin spice". They are Cinnamon and Nutmeg and Ginger and Mace and Allspice, each a separate and wonderful individual spice, good used together or separately, or with other spices, depending on what I'm making. But I do use them (together even) for pumpkin pie, which is yummy (though we usually make it crustless these days, as the filling is a lot tastier than the gluten-free pie crusts I've found, especially if I'm wanting complex carbs instead of an overload of simple ones). I also use them for other things throughout the year. If I didn't have to be careful of sugar and if I could eat wheat, I'd use them more often, singly or together.
2. What’s the oddest thing that you’ve seen touting a pumpkin-spice scent?
I don't pay enough attention to "pumpkin spice scented" to have a good answer to that. Nail polish?
3. What’s one of the first things you do when you are sure autumn has arrived?
Pout. Autumn heralds short days and the end of fresh-from-my-garden tomatoes and cucumbers, and the store-bought ones aren't nearly as good. Though this year has been a very sad garden year anyway. It is also the end of rose season, and the beginning of gather leaves to mulch roses season. Smelling roses is a lot more fun than mulching them.
4. Will or have you bought a pumpkin and will you carve it eventually or make pie out of it?
We have bought pie pumpkins! Right now they are sitting in the kitchen like a still life with a butternut squash and a trio of apples that are slowly prompting a green tomato to turn red, but eventually there will be pie.
5. Will you decorate or is it not your style?
It is my style, at least in theory. However, considering that I haven't yet taken the yule tree down (stupid long covid fatigue) and I have a wall to repair while it's still warm enough for the plaster to set (it's an outer wall), and I definitely want to get to OVFF too, which will also take a bunch of time and energy. I can't realistically see me doing anything much, or (more likely) anything at all. I've been a spoonie my whole adult life, so there's a lot of things I enjoy doing that I don't manage to actually do on a regular basis. Decorating for holidays has always been hit-or-miss. Getting covid has not helped. But it's not totally impossible.
1. Do you crave pumpkin spice all year long or just in the autumn?
I like all of the spices that, together, make "pumpkin spice", though I don't particularly crave them in autumn. And when I'm cooking I generally don't even think of them as "pumpkin spice". They are Cinnamon and Nutmeg and Ginger and Mace and Allspice, each a separate and wonderful individual spice, good used together or separately, or with other spices, depending on what I'm making. But I do use them (together even) for pumpkin pie, which is yummy (though we usually make it crustless these days, as the filling is a lot tastier than the gluten-free pie crusts I've found, especially if I'm wanting complex carbs instead of an overload of simple ones). I also use them for other things throughout the year. If I didn't have to be careful of sugar and if I could eat wheat, I'd use them more often, singly or together.
2. What’s the oddest thing that you’ve seen touting a pumpkin-spice scent?
I don't pay enough attention to "pumpkin spice scented" to have a good answer to that. Nail polish?
3. What’s one of the first things you do when you are sure autumn has arrived?
Pout. Autumn heralds short days and the end of fresh-from-my-garden tomatoes and cucumbers, and the store-bought ones aren't nearly as good. Though this year has been a very sad garden year anyway. It is also the end of rose season, and the beginning of gather leaves to mulch roses season. Smelling roses is a lot more fun than mulching them.
4. Will or have you bought a pumpkin and will you carve it eventually or make pie out of it?
We have bought pie pumpkins! Right now they are sitting in the kitchen like a still life with a butternut squash and a trio of apples that are slowly prompting a green tomato to turn red, but eventually there will be pie.
5. Will you decorate or is it not your style?
It is my style, at least in theory. However, considering that I haven't yet taken the yule tree down (stupid long covid fatigue) and I have a wall to repair while it's still warm enough for the plaster to set (it's an outer wall), and I definitely want to get to OVFF too, which will also take a bunch of time and energy. I can't realistically see me doing anything much, or (more likely) anything at all. I've been a spoonie my whole adult life, so there's a lot of things I enjoy doing that I don't manage to actually do on a regular basis. Decorating for holidays has always been hit-or-miss. Getting covid has not helped. But it's not totally impossible.
