Pumpkin!

[sholio]

I had no idea pumpkin was so tasty as a vegetable! I grew pumpkins this year (the kind that are meant for cooking with) and I ended up with four good pumpkins; I gave one to my mom and kept three, and I cut up the ripest of these tonight. I made a pumpkin-coconut curry from a (heavily modified) recipe that I found on the Internet, and the rest of it, I cooked in the microwave for mashing and making pies and cookies. But I can't stop EATING IT. It's so tasty! It tastes just like a really sweet, flavorful butternut squash. I ended up saving a section of the uncooked pumpkin to cook for a vegetable later, and only mashed part of it, because it's so tasty all by itself that I hate to "waste" it by baking with it.

(Though I'm definitely looking forward to the pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies I plan to make later tonight from the mashed part. ♥ I have a two-quart baking dish that's almost completely full of mashed pumpkin, so it's not like I don't have enough of it ...)

I was going to make one of the remaining pumpkins into a jack-o-lantern, but I think I'm going to cook with both of them and buy a pumpkin for carving, because it seems like an awful waste not to eat every bit of them.

ETA: I plan to use this pumpkin cookie recipe (perhaps modified a bit, because my pumpkin puree is very moist). The pumpkin-coconut curry was based off this recipe, but I used a lot more vegetables than it called for, and left out the broth -- basically I made a chicken stir fry, then added a can of coconut milk and the cubed pumpkin, and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. Also, I used curry powder and powdered ginger. I was planning to add yogurt to thicken the sauce, but it turned out we were out of it. (I think I'm somehow incapable of following recipes as written. CAN'T BE DONE.)

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[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

****RAISES HANDS FOR WINTER SQUASH***
I absolutely love it all
I cut rind off, cut into slices etc. and then again into small pieces and steam until tender and then add a bit of butter, a bit of cinnamon etc.
It is so tasty, so naturally sweet

Some of my favorites are:
Delicata
Sweet Dumpling
Butternut
Hubbard & Blue Hubbard
Turban


The first two are particular favorites but the rest are wonderful also
I love summer too but not as many varieties as winter.......

[sholio]

It's soooo good! Lunch today was pumpkin and butter (with a little chocolate for dessert :D). I haven't eaten much winter squash before; enough to know I liked it, but it had never been a staple food of mine. I'll definitely be eating more of it from now on!

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

You have convinced me to haul some home today
Day before yesterday I saw HUGE bins chucked full of all varieties
and so cheap................
3 for $1

[leesa_perrie]

I think I'm somehow incapable of following recipes as written. CAN'T BE DONE.

Recipes aren't set in stone, they're made to be experimented with! Or at least, that's what I think!! :D

Sounds like you'll be pigging out on enjoying pumpkin for a while now!

[sholio]

*grins* That is definitely my approach to them!

[ceitie.livejournal.com]

I made pumpkin spice cupcakes earlier this fall with pureed pumpkin, and they were SO GOOD.

[sholio]

mmmmmm, fall tasty treats. :D My pumpkin spice cookies could've turned out better (needed more spices, and possibly more pumpkin) but I also made some coconut-pumpkin candy that was HEAVENLY. And tonight's project is a pie. :D

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

I discovered only a couple weeks ago that I actually like winter squash, and I'm all alight with the many delicious possibilities it contains. And yet I'd never considered making cookies with it! Mmmm. Will have to try that!

[sholio]

I've only ever baked with it, but as a vegetable it's simply delicious! I'm definitely going to have to eat more of it (and maybe grow some other varieties next year).

[swanpride.livejournal.com]

You should try pumpkin soup with rosted sunflower seeds in it (and a little creme, if you like). Althoug, we prefer to use the small pumpkins you can cock as a whole. It's easier, and they taste better.

[sholio]

Ooh, that sounds good. :D I know that I like butternut squash soup, but I've never made it from scratch (just had the kind that you buy already prepared).

I was surprised that this pumpkin was as tasty as it was, since it was a pretty big one. It must be a good variety, and I still have plenty of seeds to grow more next year.

[swanpride.livejournal.com]

rosted pumpkin seeds are very tasty, too....

self-grown stuff tends to be very tasty - we have an apple tree in the garden, which carries the ugliest and tastiest apples you can imagine.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

I don't like vegetables! :)