Pumpkin Pumpkin

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awesome pumpkin thing mrs F and i just tried:

• cut top off small pumpkin; scoop out seeds and seedy stuff
• stick a decent whack of butter in it, plus salt and pepper
• put top back on pumpkin
• microwave for five minutes
• open up, scoop yummy warm buttery pumpkin flesh off the walls and enjoy

my mom used to make the most amazing stuffed pumpkins. i should ask for the recipe.

i want to eat some pumpkin

now that i remember though, it was so much work last time i cooked one. it was impossible to cut and peel. do you roast it first, then scoop out the flesh?

I am obsessed with Japanese pumpkin (kabocha). It's surprisingly easy for me to replicate the way I had it in
Japan. I think I will be eating it all fall.

This is like pistachio pistachio.

What do you do when Halloween comes around and you have to make a jack o'lantern? I don't think you roast it. I never saw my mom roasting the pumpkin before scooping the gunk out before making pumpkin pie.

No, definitely no cooking the jack o'lantern. Although roasting it a little while after carving might give it some extra horrorshow zing, depending on what the design is.

bam i am talking about the flesh you eat, not the seeds and stringy gunk!

Ohhhhhh. haha

I have half of a jacaima/calebeza in my fridge. Is this different from kabocha? Can I eat it with the skin or should I cut it off?

The flesh might be moister/denser than kabocha, but they are both winter squashes so whatever you do with the kabocha skin you can do the same with the calebeza skin.

i made up a pumpkin pudding recipe this morning that is not so different from jaq's pumpkin custard above:
mix 1 can pumpkin, 2 eggs, tablespoon or so finely minced fresh ginger, 5 ground up cloves, pinch of allspice, pinch of nutmeg, pinch of cardamom, a few shakes of cinnamon, ~1/4 cup of dark honey, half can of coconut milk. put it in a small baking dish and bake on 375 for 40 minutes (or until the middle is set). this was great! i like the little pieces of ginger, much better than using dried ground ginger.

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I put olive oil on a bakin g sheet - 400 degrees oven for about 15 minute

salt it up

Wait until they are quite brown for some serious delight

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Also great are roasted delicata and butternut seeds imho

We do pumpkin seeds with salt / olive oil / cumin

sometimes we've mixed it up by using Cavender's Greek seasoning, Old Bay, some other concoctions. Keep coming back to the orig trig.