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Sat 22 Dec, 2007 01:20 pm
Anybody have any insight on where to find raw, unshelled pumpkin seeds?
Most health food store carries them. Many supermarkets in major cities now have health or natural food sections too.
Click on the following link to find an online source:
http://www.nutsonline.com/seedsspices/pumpkinseeds/?sid=SIQXp2G9yxgwwSJ9&source=gaw&kw=cam2grp4AdA&gclid=CN2p8MLZvJACFQspFQodqC0RWA
to all who replied
Halloween is gone, and so are all my neighbors pumpkins. It is now almost Christmas, and I finally ran out of seeds. Once a week, I tried cooking a different spiced batch of pumpkin seeds. My favorite was a oven roasted, cayenned, onion, garlic pepper seed. Nothing over powering, just a hint of each flavor.
That sounds good..
I've been playing around with roasting nuts, but not yet pumpkin seeds. My local Albertson's has them in bulk, by the way.
to osobuco
I learned the hard way about black walnuts this year. I picked fresh ones, and when I cleaned them at home my hands were dyed a purplish, black for over a week. It was worth it.
I'm from California and, now, the southwest. Haven't run across black walnuts except in fine Belgian chocolates and some manufacturer's ice cream. Delicious, from my point of view.
Funny, re your hands... the walnut monster.
Alex, we don't know where you are. I'm guessing US or Canada. We don't know if you are in a city or a village or the countryside.
If you are far away from stores that sell bulk products, I'm betting there are internet suppliers.
I get mine at the Bulk Barn :-D
to ossobuco and new friends
Im in Michigan. Most of the bulk stores seeds are coated with a sodium based product. Somebody in the world has to be growing pumpkins.
Convince me the sodium compound is bad.. I'm ready to admit it may be, just wondering. Otherwise, how would you process and transport pumpkin seeds?
for a fee
I'm looking for farmers who would ship fresh pumpkins, or fresh frozen seeds. A little dry ice, like the steak companies use works well for frozen products.
And it's good for hiding small scratches on furniture.
my wife used to use black walnut husks for natural dyes. Even with exotic (and dangerous) mordants, the colors are unremarkeable, shades of brown and tan. (Most nuts , with the exception of a few tropicals, give really dull colors. Walnuts make a really neat calligraphy ink by mixing gum arabic with the concentrated dye lot).
BUT, just like it was described before, the tannin in walnuts will stick with you almost like a henna dye
My job , in the walnut game was to pick em, place em all on the parking lot, and then smoosh em with the front end loader bucket. Then Id separate the husks from the busted nut shells. The kids would shell em, and wed have black walnuts for Christmas cookies and nut butter. (Of course my wifes dyepot would get filled , but once we started raising black corriedales , she didnt bother with walnut dyes at all.)
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