I washed the seeds to get rid of most of the yucky stuff…<\/p>\n Then I sprinkled them liberally with salt and left them to dry overnight.<\/p>\n After browsing recipes online for forever, I decided to ditch them all and try my own. This is about creativity, right? So I decided I wanted to start with gochujang<\/a> as my central ingredient, because I have been on a kick<\/em> with this stuff in the last couple of months. It’s this fabulous spicy pepper paste used in a lot of Korean dishes, and I buy it at H-Mart<\/a>.\u00a0 You can put it on anything and everything is improved by it. Seriously, get some. (And note: it also comes in squeezy bottles!)<\/p>\n But I knew applying gochujang directly to seeds was going to make them very painful to eat, if it didn’t start an outright fire in my oven. So I scrounged around in my fridge and came up with some dumpling sauce (which is NOT soy sauce, but a bit more complex and more oily). I also added garlic powder because more garlic is always okay.<\/p>\n I greased the bottom of a glass pan, using sesame oil to keep the flavors sort of in the same Asian family.<\/p>\n Then I baked at 300\u00b0 for about 40 minutes, stirring every 10. I should say that the recipes I was looking at called for a full hour of baking, but at 40 minutes these guys already looked seriously done. Not burned, but almost.<\/p>\n I also just realized I forgot to take a picture of them when they came out of the oven, because I was too busy eating them. So here is a picture of a small portion on my desk at lunch today.<\/p>\n To be honest, most of the spiciness seems to have baked away, and they mostly taste salted. But they do have a really pleasant, very mild afterburn. All things considered I’m pleased, although next year I might triple the amount of spicy paste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’ve had these two pumpkins sitting on my kitchen counter since the third week of October. Fortunately, pumpkins are kind of self-contained and long-lasting, if you don’t carve them. I finally got around to doing anything with them this … Continue reading ![\"20131116_130616\"](\"https:\/\/thoughtsredacted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131116_130616.jpg\")
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