Pumpkin Soup

[eseme]

I made Pumpkin Soup tonight. There were pie pumpkins at the Farmer's Market last week! It's so early.

So, for a yummy fall treat:

Pumpkin Soup1 pie pumpkin

Comments

[aldersprig]

When roasting butternut seeds, we don't boil them, we just toss them in a pan with a bit of butter and a bit of salt on 3 or 4 and shake frequently until crisp. We did the same with pumpkin the one time I bothered with a pumpkin (too much work vs. butternut and I don't like the flavour as much ;-) and it worked fine.

[eseme]

The boiling was advice from my mother, who likes the seeds softened. I found them chewy, and will probably try your version next.

Mom does ass a coating of soy sauce with various spices to hers and I've requested the recipe for that that concoction, as the flavor is great.

Pumpkin seeds are work though! There are tons of the buggers.

[aldersprig]

Yeah, I roasted 4 butternuts this weekend (6 to go) so I know the feeling. Pan-roasting works nicely. Leaving a bit of the goop (just a tiny bit) boosts flavour, too.

[eseme]

I have enough small OCD tendencies that I try to get rid of all the goop. Which makes pumpkins worse. Telling myself that some goop will taste better will help with that a lot. Thanks!

Good luck with the butternuts! My parents store them all winter at room temperature, but room temp in their house with a woodstove is rather colder than room temp in other homes...