Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

From the recipe archive, for Halloween pumpkin carving.

Fall has arrived and with it, the pumpkin season. There are always plenty of pumpkins to carve up around Halloween moment and a great way to form use of the pumpkin seeds is eat them, salted and toasted. Our preference is with the shells on - whether they are toasted properly they are wonderfully crunchy and easy to eat. It

helps whether you are going to eat them with the shells on that you use seeds from sugar pumpkins, somewhat smaller than the mega-sized carving pumpkins (not really pumpkins but large squash). The trick? Boil the seeds in salted water first, and soon after toast them in the oven.

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