We paid a relative fortune for our shipped pumpkin, but we sure got our money's worth. We carved it and everyone gave input on one feature. I harvested as much of the meat of the pumpkin while doing so (scraping the sides thin and keeping the peelings, taking off the dark orange skin from the eyes and mouth and nose and tossing those in my pot). I cooked down the pumpkin to make pumpkin puree, half of which I made into pumpkin ice cream and half of which I am freezing and saving for a pumpkin pie. And we saved the seeds to roast (they are in the oven now spread on a cookie sheet with a little olive oil worked in, I'll salt 'em later)! So I'm feeling pretty good about that $13 we spent. I bet we were the only people in the country eating pumpkin ice cream (try the
recipe, it was amazing) this week! The craziest thing about having a pumpkin here is that with our warm temperatures, some of the seeds were sprouting when we opened the pumpkin. Here are the photos:
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| I think the kids look scarier than the pumpkin, right? |
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| Sprouting! Can you believe it? |
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| I cooked this with just a half inch or so of water. |
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| Happy Halloween! |
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