Topic: The Food Timeline!

[mistybear]

                                                                        The Food Timeline.

Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why?

Welcome to the Food Timeline! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some people will tell you it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods we eat are not invented; they evolve.

[Simon]

That should keep Rik amused for a few hours! 

[Clive]

Bookmarked!  That is one hell of a website MB.  Pumpkin Pie for you too.   

[mistybear]

I've never tried pumpkin pie, not sure I want to, either.

[Rik]

That should keep Rik amused for a few hours! 

Not that long, I eat fast.

[davy51]

I've never tried pumpkin pie, not sure I want to, either.

It's pretty good Misty
I think you would like it

[mistybear]

I'm game, have you any recipes, Davy. 

[davy51]

Her are a couple sites with good recipes

I have used both and they are good



From a fresh pumpkin

http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/pumpkinrecipes.php

canned pumpkin

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/pumpkin-pie-recipe/index.html

[Simon]

Pumpkin!   

[Sandra]

Butternut squash soup, which is a type of pumpkin, is lovely Simon 

[Simon]

I'm not a fan of root veg, San.  I think it comes under that category, doesn't it?

[Sandra]

No, root veg by definition are tubers and grow underground, pumpkins are squashes which grow above ground 

I think you already know that I am not a big veggie lover Simon, unless they have been processed first by being eaten by cows, sheep and pigs and turned into meat, but butternut squash and other pumpkins do make nice soups and dont have a bad texture or taste, even when eaten as a boiled, baked or roasted vegetable

[GillE]

Pumpkin makes the tastiest pie I've ever eaten.  It's gorgeous!  Mind, it would be more accurate to describe it as a tart or a flan because it doesn't have a pastry lid.

If you've never eaten pumpkin pie before, make a point of seeking it out.  It's right up there with treacle tart, Mississippi mud pie, egg custard and all the other sweet classics.

[Simon]

I have to say, I've never actually had pumpkin, as I'd always thought it was like parsnip or swede, which I don't like.

[Rik]

What's wrong with Swedes? There have been some very attractive ones.