Pumpkin recipes!

[politicat]

It's good in cakes, pies, ice cream, waffles, breads....

But how about as a vegetable? They're really inexpensive this time of year, and a tasty squash, so how do you prepare your pumpkins?

Baked pumpkin (this can then be the basis for many other recipes, or just eaten plain, with a spoon.)

1 small sugar pumpkin (fist sized - bigger pumpkins get more brown sugar and butter)
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon butter
2 pinches ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Cut off the top of the pumpkin and scrape out all the seeds. Place the butter or margarine and brown sugar inside the pumpkin and sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Put the pumpkin lid back on and place pumpkin in a baking pan with a little water in the bottom.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until tender. These can also be baked in the microwave on high for about 10 to 15 minutes.

[eleny]

1. I put a ground meat dish into pumpkins and bake

It's pretty much a pork or beef chile that's fixed and then spooned into small pumpkins and baked until the pumpkin is done. The pumpkin is eaten along with the chile. Sort of like how pumpkins are used for soup bowls.

I love all kinds of squash.

[Delphinus]

2. I would love a good recipe for

Pumpkin Soup. I had it while visiting the island of Dominica and fell in love with it. I've yet to find a soup recipe that "feels" like it would taste something similar. Dominica has a French Creole or Patois flavor to the island, so something that's from the States probably wouldn't be up to snuff.

Any ideas?

[The empressof all]

3. You know I don't measure

But I throw roasted pumpkin, nutmeg, salt, pepper, cayenne, chicken broth (veggie works too), peanut butter and a little cream in the blender for Pumpkin Peanut Butter Soup. ( You want to give it a little burn on the back of the throat --So I add quite a bit of cayenne or even a jalepeno)

[wildeyed]

4. I made a yummy desert from canned pumpkin a few days ago.

It is basically pumpkin pie filling without the pie crust.

1 can pumpkin puree
1 can low fat evaporated milk
2 eggs
cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves

bake on 350 (I think, I am doing this from memory) for about 40 minutes, until the middle starts to firm up.

Almost as yummy as pumpkin pie, but much easier. Good for breakfast, too.

[The empressof all]

5. I hope you put some sugar in that

probably about a cup. You could also do this with sweetened condensed milk and leave out the sugar. I also do this with brown sugar which adds a deeper flavor.

[wildeyed]

6. Oh yeah, 1/2 cup of sugar.

See what happens when you do recipes by memory?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Yesterday, at Trader Joe's,

they were giving out freebies of pumpkin cheesecake.

Not bad.

Not great, but not bad.