Do you cook your pumpkin?

[P T]

How do you deal with the old Jack O'Lanterns? Are they easy to cook?
How? Is it superior to canned or prepared? Any suggestions for using it
as more of a vegetable, as opposed to pies? Thanks

[Jules]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:54:16 -0600, P T wrote:

> How do you deal with the old Jack O'Lanterns? Are they easy to cook?

Hmm, ours started going bad after only a couple of days... plus I cut
the tops out with an old jigsaw and the blade probably wasn't the
cleanest. I'm going to hurl them into the woods later and the critters can
have 'em.

I used to put butternut squash in chicken stews and it was really nice -
pumpkin might work just as well, so long as it wasn't moldy or
contaminated by power tools... :-)

[Doug McIntyre]

There are many different varieties/species of pumpkins. The pie
pumpkins are much smaller, and have much more dense, actually orange,
and flavorful flesh (they aren't just small versions of the same).

The kind of pumpkins grown for Jack O'Lanterns are huge, and the flesh
is very pale, watery and stringy, and probably pretty tasteless,
although I haven't cooked Jack O'Lanterns pumpkin to make anything with it.

Probably best to let the squirrels/ants gorge on them, or compost them as
the least eco impact.

[AnnE]

On Nov 2, 10:07 am, Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:

Thanks for this info...I'm going to let the squirrels eat away. $13
pumpkin this year so it should be great. lol It was the heaviest
one ever, that's for sure. And VERY thick. Hard to carve.

AnnE

[Melba's Jammin']

In article <19065-4AE...@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>,
Petep...@webtv.net (P T) wrote:

When I had kids and we carved pumpkins, I pitched it. Pie pumpkins are
smaller, I think called Sugar Pumpkins --- something like that. I used
to roast the seeds, though. Those were pretty tasty.
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10-30-2009