Tis the season...

...for everything pumpkin related!

After the pumpkins were carved(and then melted in the heat) for Halloween, we still had one left over. Economical me decided that it shouldn't go to waste, after all the poor guy didn't get carved, and it wasn't free. Why not try to make something out of it right?

First things first:
It needed to be cut up, guts scraped out, and roasted. I cut the stem off like you would for a jack-o-lantern. Threw it in the garbage.
Then cut it in half and scraped out the guts. Easy peasy.

Then I put the much-larger-than-I-thought-pumpkin, cut-side down on a baking sheet and roasted it at 350˚ for around an hour. Let it cool for 30 mins or so and then scraped the skin off. What was left was the pumpkin flesh. Mashed with a potato masher and then into the food processor it went.

What came out was a beautiful orange pumpkin puree.


I got about 8 1/2 cups out of a normal carving pumpkin. I read all over the internet world that carving pumpkins aren't as sweet as a pie pumpkin. But I don't take no for an answer so we'll see how these pumpkin recipes go. I apologize in advance to my friends and coworkers. You'll have to eat my creations.

Coming up - pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread....any suggestions for a pumpkin recipe?

-TB