Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Nothing says October like pumpkin carving. But do not just throw out those
jack-o-lantern seeds. You can easily roast them for a healthy snack.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

seeds of one large jack-o-lantern pumpkin (about 2 cups)

Salted Seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt

Seasoned Seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Sweet Cinnamon Seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon sugar

Preheat oven to 325 ° F.
Clean any pumpkin pulp off the seeds. I fill my sink or a large bowl with water and sort the clean seeds into a strainer.
Let the seeds drain most of the water off.
Place seeds into a bowl. Place the ingredients from your selected recipe in the bowl. Stir until well mixed.
Pour seeds onto a parchment paper or foil lined baking pan.
Bake for 20-30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
Remove seeds from pan and allow to cool.

Enjoy!

Additional Activity:
We love to guess the number of seeds that will be in the pumpkin and then count them to see how close our guess was.

Pumpkin Brownies

Healthy brownies? Could it be? Not only is this recipe beyond easy, it eliminates the oil, eggs and butter. And is still delicious.

Pumpkin Brownies

1 - 19.5 ounce box brownie mix
1 - 15 ounce can pumpkin

1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional, used regular and mini sized)

sprinkles (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 ° F.  Spray a 9x13 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray or olive oil.  In a large bowl, mix together only the powdered brownie mix and pumpkin until combined.  Add chocolate chips if you want.

Spread batter into prepared pan. Add sprinkles at this time if you choose to.  Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. This recipe does not rise like a cake. So, no you did not do anything wrong.

This recipe makes a fudge type of a brownie. It does not make the cake type of brownie. But it is yummy and you don't feel guilty eating more than one!

Adapted from Six Sisters' Stuff recipe.