Pumpkin Seeds!

Here in the US Halloween is celebrated in October and decorated Pumpkins can be seen everywhere. Carving, and painting Pumpkins has become an art form and of course there are plenty of recipes for cooking pumpkins, but people invariably discard the seeds.
You can walk into any convenience store in the country and purchase pumpkin seeds to be consumed as a snack (Crack them open with your teeth to get the meat inside), but rather than buy them try making your own.

Pumpkin Seeds
Cleaning and processing pumpkin seeds for consumption as a snack isnt all that difficult to do and October is the time to give it a try.

Salted pumpkin seeds are easy! Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, wash the seed, spread them out on a greased baking sheet, shake on some sea salt, and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

For Italian Pumpkin seeds use the same recipe but this time sprinkle with sea salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning.

Spicey Mexican? Sure, just change the spices to sea salt, garlic, paprika, cayenne, and crushed red pepper.

Cinnamon pumpkin seeds are made the same way but first they get a bit of cinnamon and sugar.

Garlic and Onion are made the same way. Sea salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and then bake at 350 until golden brown.

These are all basic recipes that can be twisted to your own taste, and I'll bet you can come up with a few of your own to post here also.
Enjoy!

outstanding, bill! we do these every year, usually just with salt - but some flavour combinations that you mention sound worth a try for sure!

I have cracked open a LOT of home made pumpkin seeds while ice fishing.   

I don't eat them to sustain myself, kind of a time waster for me really. I always try to remove the seed from the shells without using my hands. I end up eating my share of shells though.

I eat the whole thing. 

Whole thing. I do the same with sunflower seeds, and have occasionally done it with peanuts