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Now I realize that it's the day after Halloween and the last thing you want to be thinking about is pumpkin, especially since some of the neighborhood kids smashed your jack 'o lantern last night and you have big chunks of pumpkin to clean up off your front porch. Be that as it may, I wandered across a really fun recipe for pumpkin steaks and I couldn't help it. I had to share.

It's sort of a labor intensive recipe, in which you cut the pumpkin into flat chunks, bake it in the oven until its tender and then pan fry it. But gosh does it sound good. I'm tempted to get my hands on another cooking pumpkin and try it out. It would be a great one to tuck away for Thanksgiving, for those of you who are tired of the same squash or sweet potato dishes. The full recipe is after the jump.

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Wow, this seems like a rather expensive holiday to celebrate.

It's National Filet Mignon Day, the day when you go all out and buy some steaks. I'm not a big steak eater (haven't had one in years, now that I think of it), and I doubt this day will make me break my streak, but Ask The Meatman has some recipes for Steak Diane, Beef Filet Mignon Salad, Sauteed Filet Mignon, and a couple of others.

Today also happens to be the day that Julia Child passed away, in 2004. She probably would have liked a nice steak and a few glasses of wine.

Mail-order steaks aren't necessarily anything new or innovative. We've seen Omaha Steaks, I've tried Montana Legend, but this one just makes me laugh.

Donald Trump has his own line of premium steaks. Did I miss a season of 'The Apprentice' where the winner got to run a new food business for The Donald?

Available from the Sharper Image, the Classic Collection contains two Filet Mignon steaks, two "Cowboy" Bone-In Rib Eye steaks, and 12 Trump Steaks Burgers. Nothing unusual about that selection, right?

Except that it costs $200! Good grief. Mr. Trump better deliver it himself for that price.

Several weeks ago, I had the good fortune of being invited to a tasting for Montana Legend, a direct-to-consumer rancher (kind of like Omaha Steaks) of premium Angus beef -- no growth hormones nor antibiotics, and grass-fed. "We're doing a steak tasting. Are you inte..?" and before the question was complete, Montana Legend was on my calendar. I mean come on, people. Beef.

This past weekend. They were going to be grilling different cuts aged in a variety of ways, and would also be serving other foods, so I donned my best waist-less pants and headed over to the tasting.

If ever you needed an alibi when you're caught flipping through Maxim magazine, don't say "Jessica Alba." The men's magazine has picked the 10 Best Steakhouses in the US. Strangely, there's only one from Chicago and one from Texas, but multiple places from...Florida? Who knew? Here's the list, in no particular order:

1. Del Friscos, Orlando, FL - www.delfriscos.com
   
2. Grill 23 Boston, MA - "beef comes from a small herd of purebred steer," www.grill23.com
   
3. The Big Texan Steak Ranch, Amarillo, TX - "If you can eat a 72-ounce steak and all the trimmings in under an hour, it's free. In 46 years only 7,000 people have done it." www.bigtexan.com
   
4. Dickie Brennan's Steak House, New Orleans, LA - www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com
   
5. Gene & Georgetti Chicago, IL - www.geneandgeorgetti.com
6. Strip House New York, NY - "silhouettes of naked women adorn the napkins"
   
7. The Forge Miami, FL - "known for nude oil paintings and a wine cellar with 380,000 bottles,"
   
8. Bern's Steak House, Tampa, FL - www.bernssteakhouse.com
   
9. Peter Luger Brooklyn, NY - www.peterluger.com
   
10. Donovan's Steak & Chop House La Jolla, CA - www.donovanssteakhouse.com