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What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, crepes ain't worth the stress to make fresh. Just buy a little pack from store and focus on filling is my go to.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Gods! Making it from raw pumpkin takes so fucking long. You can get rid of the strings, but you're still going to be putzing with it forever. I don't like wasting food, so I end up doing it every Halloween, but if I'm doing pumpkin recipes any other time of year, and that has run out, I'm buying canned.

I swear, every year I have an argument with myself to just throw the scraped out stuff in the yard for the birds. They end up getting the jack o lanterns anyway so what's the big deal? But both sets of my grandparents grew up in the depression, so wasting anything is kinda impossible lol.

[-] ExcessiveAardvark@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Jack o lantern pumpkins are not good for pies, in part because they are too stringy. A sugar pumpkin is the way to go if you want to do it from scratch.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Very true indeed. But sugar pumpkins are horrible for jack o lanterns lol. Well, if you do them the way we do. It's kind of a big thing for us. We do that fancy shit and have a line of them on the porch. Actually, this year we didn't go all out and only had five, with only one being fancy.

But if I'm making pumpkin pie filling from scratch, you're dead on. I'm not messing with scraping one out, I'm just cutting it up, baking it and going from there.

[-] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I haven't bought canned pumpkin in 20 years. It's not bad to process and freeze it, and with good pie pumpkins, it's unparalleled. Plus you get home roasted pumpkin seeds as a bonus.

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