Posted on 10/10/2017 3:41:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
There are lots of things you can do with pumpkin, besides pie and Jack-0-Lanterns. I like these recipes that can be served inside of the cooking-pumpkin that they came out of to start with. From 'My Recipes' here is Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin-Seed Mint Pesto:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-soup-pumpkin-seed
'The Kitchn' has '10 Things You Can Cook Inside a Pumpkin', and the Savory Stuffed Pumpkin with Sausage and Gruyere looks great:
http://www.thekitchn.com/10-things-you-can-cook-inside-a-pumpkin-211927
The HGTV email newsletter this week had instructions for making these gorgeous gilded pumpkins out of the 'faux' pumpkins you can get at the craft store, as well as some easy carving templates:
http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/metallic-copper-gold-and-silver-pumpkins
-JT
Those snickerdoodles look good.
Bake one, taste it, and then see.
For best flavor, store them in a dry spot for a month first, if possible. The sugars develop as the pumpkins age.
My role model, Jackie Clay, even bakes with the Atlantic Giant pumpkins! She says they’re too big to haul in from the garden, so she just takes a steak knife and cuts them up where they grew.
Each variety is a little bit different, but the flavor isn’t really tied to size or type. At least not as much as some people think :)
CREAM OF PUMPKIN SOUP
PREP Roast 4-6 lge gar/cl 400 deg 15-20 min.
SOUP Puree peeled garlic, 2 c cooked pumpkin, 6 c chix
broth, 2 tb honey, 1/2 tsp coriander. Heat/stir/BTB;
stir in 1/2 c h/cream. Cover/steep/offheat 5 min.
SERVE w/ toasted pumpkin seeds, swirl of cream, bit of greenery.
My husband wanted me to include in the original post this recipe for Pumpkin Gratin from Jacques Pepin; but I forgot and left it out:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/pumpkin-gratin-by-jacques-pepin-50055890
I used to collect and use vegetable serving dishes, I had a thing for them. Carrot, eggplant, cabbages, corn ,they look great on a table. All given away and gone now.
In my area, you just don’t see cooking pumpkins in the stores, so a farmer’s market is the way to go. Thanks.
LOL! Did your spellcheck not recognize ‘butternut’?
(I can’t imagine that AI is going to go very far, when software can’t even recognize something like that ;-)
Fitz and Floyd have done some beautiful stuff like that:
http://www.fitzandfloyd.com/fattoria-covered-dish-with-bird-knob_3112.aspx?EID=945&EN=Category
Nice!
I love this rabbit butter dish; but my purse says I have to stop looking now ;-)
http://www.fitzandfloyd.com/fattoria-rabbit-covered-butter-dish_3120.aspx?EID=865&EN=Category
MMMMMMmmmmmmmm......thanks to hubby.
He’s a big Jacques fan.
I want it.........now.
Yup.......I got into that, too.
Well, it’s on sale ;-)
LOL sorry I didn’t catch that!
So I noticed...the low price makes it very affordable.
Those pumpkins are very artful....like something out of a Vermeer painting.
Those pumpkins are probably a good first project for using that metallic foil - it’s tricky to work with. But my Joann’s hasn’t had nice, natural looking pumpkins/squashes like that, just the Funkins that you can carve. Pottery Barn has them but they’re very expensive.
Foiled?
I thought they were spray-painted w/ those lovely gilded spray paints from Hobby Lobby.
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