Our Family Food Favorites: Mashed Pumpkin

Mar 11, 2015

Mashed Pumpkin

How to Make Mashed Pumpkin: Cut into small pieces and remove skin. Boil until soft. Discard liquid. Mash until well combined and uniform. Let sit in strainer for several hours to drain remaining water.

Recipe shared by Kacey and Amy.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.