Pumpkin Seeds

 My favorite time of year....ahhhh PUMPKIN SEEDS!!!  When I was growing up - these bad boys didn't seem to last through the weekend, so now that I'm all grown up (yup - I'm 30 today!!) we get LOTS of pumpkins so we can have LOTS of seeds!!   So first step = Get lots of pumpkins!!!  Second step = carve those bad boys up!!

We always put paper bags down under the "carving station" - makes for really easy clean up!  Anyways - scrap out the guts of the pumpkin and put those bad boys on the paper bags....then have your "seed collector" (ME!) go through all those guts and put the seeds into a big bowl!  Fill that bowl up with some cold water - and wash those leftover guts off the seeds.  I usually let them just soak the rest of the time we are carving.

Then lay out those seeds on a towel to let them air dry for a bit.  Pre-heat the oven to 250 degrees.  Then I put a single layer of seeds on a cookie sheet - put dabs of butter over the seeds - and then sprinkle them with Lawry's seasoning.  I usually cook each tray in 15 minute intervals - so place a tray in, set timer for 15 minutes, then take out - mix up the seeds - put some more butter/Lawry's (if needed) and repeat until the seeds to seem to be "cooked".  Usually you can tell by tasting :)

THEN - you are all done and all your need to do is hide these YUMMY treats from your hubby so he doesn't eat them all :)  The key to this trick is - pretend the pumpkins only made 1 tupperware container and hide the other one!  hehe