Pumpkin Recipes

[shelley bda]

Ferrals Thread got me thinking. Seems a shame to throw out the pumpkin innards....does anyone do anything delicious with theirs? or know of any recipes?

[makapaka]

Use them as a face pack?

[0iD]

Take the flesh you've carved out (minus the stringy bits & seeds), cube it, sprinkle with dried or fresh mint & roast it in the oven with some chunks of carrot, courgette (or marrow), tomato's & onions. Once everything is soft, mash, add veg stock & liquidise to make a nice thick tasty soup.

The seeds can be toasted or roasted too. Just shell them & nom nom nom.

[david@scan]

Had to sample Pumpkin Pie at school with my (American) English teacher one year.

Never again!

[staffsMike]

I will attempt to find/get the recipe for this thing my mother in law (to be) makes. It's a side dish to.. well anything but usual curry for us and it's possible the nicest thing I've ever eaten. There's definitely some cumin in there but other than that all I know is it's gorgeous.

Another thing to note is how much the flavour of pumpkin varies for one type to another, some are foul.

[Domestic_Ginger]

Roasted pumpkin seeds are nice.

[BigFatCat]

I tried pumpkin pie, not knowing what to expect (apart from pumpkin in a pastry perhaps) and was pleasantly surprised. Add a bit of spice to help warm you on a cold night.

[BUFF]

Originally Posted by david@scan

Had to sample Pumpkin Pie at school with my (American) English teacher one year.

Never again!

my mother (who is American) adores it - everytime that she goes back she has some.

[shelley bda]

Thanks Guys. Pumpkin soup will have to be tried methinks

[Zak33]

Shelley... I was given some advice about Pumpkins once....

Carve em up, stick a candle in 'em and then bin 'em next morning. I disagree with the last bit of that, cos they compost really well so dont bin em

I've made pumpkin soup...it was crap.

I even followed a recipe from a TV show, where you remove the seeds from a little one, keeping the lid, stick a whole carton of cream in, with nutmeg ground in... and microwave it for about 7 minutes, lid on, until the inside has softned and then eat it straight out of the pumpkin, with a sharp spoon.

It tasted ok... lets face it, a house brick with a litre of cream on it is gonna taste pretty good.

Nah... pumpkind are for the front driveway and then the composter.

Go get a butternut squash and treat ya self to a squash that actually tastes lovely

[0iD]

Pumpkin on it's own tastes like cack, but it's nutritious & full of fibre so shouldn't necessarily be ignored. Doesn't take much to add a bit of flavour & roasting first is essential before bunging it in a soup (imo). Some of the smaller pumpkins & squashes you can pick up at farm shops & supermarkets are ideal snack food.

[menthel]

Curried pumpkin is great. As is well made soup. Roast the thing first to get the sugars to caramelise. I also probably wouldn't cook with one that has been lanterned! I would just compost that!

[Zak33]

the one I lanterned smelled better than any I've ever cooked

Seriously.... guys....this is straight from the heart. These pumpkins are wasting your time. You can get loads of fibre other ways, and use less gas/electric cooking them. Using them as a soup filler is ok if you got one FREE, but if you brought it and are now cooking it... ask why you want to add flavours to something when you could have brought something that tasted of somwthing to begin with !

I think that, if the pumpkin died out across the globe and something, ANYTHING else was grown, we'd all be better off

Butternut squash tastes on its own with no help... so do many other squashes.. but pumpkins seem to be a waste of soil/sun/watering/field space/cooking energy to me

[shelley bda]

Thanks Zak I didn't cook our pumpkin, but made pumpkin soup at work with the children.... It was foul. I don't think it was helped by my boss saying the stringy bits and pips had to go in as well I was sure they didn't but she reckoned they had too. Seemed to be an interesting concept to the children, cooking with something they associate with decoration