How many ways can you enjoy a pumpkin?

[tudorpot]

I like to waste as little as possible. Partly because I like to save money and while I love pretty things, I don't have a lot of money. So I use free-cycle and scavenge at yard sales, scour the clearance racks and haunt thrift shops. Another aspect of this is how I approach my interests/ hobbies

Comments

[catherinecookmn]

Wow! Sounds yummy! Can't wait to see what the paper looks like, too.

[tudorpot]

It is just scrumptious- complex curry flavour with delicate pumpkin, the cream really adds to the dish. I'm just going out to check my mail box and will take some for my brother -there's lots. If you don't have pumpkins, you could make it with any good squash- butternut perhaps.

[harrietvane]

Remind me next year and I'll give you a recipe for pumpkin scones, if you're interested. I grew up in Kingaroy, which is the home of Lady Flo's pumpkin scones. Mmmm. Delicious.

[tudorpot]

I have more pumpkin-could you send the recipe now??

[alienor77310]

An improvised and very simplified recipe I made the other day:

Bake slices of pumpkin in medium oven on a cookie sheet until they're soft. (That lets you remove the skin without slicing your fingers...)

In a saucepan, put the chunks of pumpkin flesh, a can of unsweetened condensed milk and enough milk to cover the pumpkin. Simmer until the pumpkin flesh falls apart. Blend (let cool first if you don't use a stick blender), salt to taste, add Madras curry paste, to taste as well.

Serve hot with grated cheese on the side.

[tudorpot]

That would work- the roasting would add flavour- how about using cocoanut milk - and some thai green curry paste- thai pumpkin soup.

[dickgloucester]

Pumpkins are not food, in my opinion. Whatever you do to them. And believe me, I've tried.
But they do look fine when carved by experts.

[tudorpot]

just as with all things--it's buying the right variety. The pumpkin I carved was a large 'pie' pumpkin. Those grown for size and carving are usually tasteless. I remember when I learned how to grow vegetables from my father- he would spend hours going over seed catalogs- the descriptions are quite telling - some talk about taste, others explain how well the fruit/veg 'travels' to market or how easily it's picked by machines/man.

[a_bees_buzz]

I'm somewhat of an envrionmentalist.

We always cook our Halloween pumpkin. (OK, so always means for the last couple of years, but that's as long as we've had Halloween pumpkins.) We're having very intense discussions at the moment about what to do with this year's. The current favorite option is pumpkin soup, but there is some interest in curry, and the stuff-with-rice-and-other-stuff-and-bake option is getting a look-in.

I'll leave the paper-making to you crafty types. Our extra bits go in the compost.

[tudorpot]

This is the first time I've cooked one, and perhaps the first pumpkin I've carved as an adult. My nephew had one given to him when he visited a few weeks ago and went to a farm/pumpkin festival- they left it behind. Serendipity.

My recipe will fulfill both soup and curry- I have a recipe for a whole chicken done in a pumpkin- never used it but it looks kinda neat.

[a_bees_buzz]

Chicken in a pumpkin? *is intrigued*

Recipe?

[queenlyzard]

Hiya! Hope you don't mind me coming over to friend you. I'm impressed, btw-- while I do tend to cook with pumpkins, I've never managed to get anything edible out of one after it has been used as a jack-o-lantern! Usually they are too smoky. If you have any more pumpkin laying around, I can send you a few good recipes, including one I concocted for "pumpkin juice".

[tudorpot]

No pumpkin left- I put a hole in the lid so that the smoke from the candle has a place to escape.
Welcome, I have friended you back, we have food and books in common.