Food Network Challenge Pumpkin Carving
Cooking Channel Ellie Krieger
Food Network Competition
Food Network Challenge Outrageous Pumpkins 2Food Network Pumpkin Challenge. Pumpkins are everywhere this week, no matter which way you turn. Grocery stores have fresh pumpkins for those who can not go to an orchard and picking your own right from the vine. Farm Stands have screens large and small pumpkins for carving, decorating or eating! All discount stores and craft shop has displays of pumpkins, real or not, but all are guaranteed carvable.
Remember when it was enough to carve a 3 triangles (eyes and nose) and either a happy face or fear? Those days are gone forever. With advanced pumpkin carving tools and patterns available today have become works of art. The Food Network, even had a pumpkin carving 'Challenge' with the winner taking home a check for $ 10,000. Now, the carvings were incredibly complex. The winner of "Medusa" was five snakes pumpkin carved pumpkin face protruding from the detailed, with several of them with drums and moving! What a fantastic display of talent, size...
With all this focus on carving pumpkins its high nutritional value can be lost. Like other brightly colored fruits and vegetables, pumpkins are rich in beta-carotene, an important antioxidant. Beta-carotene is converted by the body to vitamin A. There have been numerous articles on foods rich in beta-carotene to provide some protection against developing certain cancers and heart disease. They are low in salt, has zero cholesterol, and plenty of fiber and vitamin C.
Remember when it was enough to carve a 3 triangles (eyes and nose) and either a happy face or fear? Those days are gone forever. With advanced pumpkin carving tools and patterns available today have become works of art. The Food Network, even had a pumpkin carving 'Challenge' with the winner taking home a check for $ 10,000. Now, the carvings were incredibly complex. The winner of "Medusa" was five snakes pumpkin carved pumpkin face protruding from the detailed, with several of them with drums and moving! What a fantastic display of talent, size...
With all this focus on carving pumpkins its high nutritional value can be lost. Like other brightly colored fruits and vegetables, pumpkins are rich in beta-carotene, an important antioxidant. Beta-carotene is converted by the body to vitamin A. There have been numerous articles on foods rich in beta-carotene to provide some protection against developing certain cancers and heart disease. They are low in salt, has zero cholesterol, and plenty of fiber and vitamin C.
