Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

[boonie stomper]

This Halloween, I got a rather large pumpkin, but didn't carve it. I'd like to eat it, but it is not the pie-making variety.

Anyone have suggestions how best to use it, short of just frying it with butter, salt & pepper?

[2big4mysize]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

if it is a true pumpkin and not a gourd your favorite winter sqash recipe would work great.

I lver to roast them with garlic onions and a bit of EVOO and then puree the stuff when it is cooked.

[boonie stomper]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

EVOO??? What is it?

[Miss Phode]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

Extra virgin olive oil.

[boonie stomper]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

OK- I'm assuming this is a true pumpkin, selectively bred for use as a jack-o-lantern, meaning its flesh is only an inch or two thick, and not as rich as a pie pumpkin. I'm thinking there's enough pumpkin even so to give half to Mom, have fried slices for 3-4 meals, and enough leftover to make soup for a week, with onions, peppers, & seasonings. And roasted pumpkin seeds for snacking on.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

you will know real soon if it is a gourd as they are verey stringy. hope you got a nice one. i love pumpkin soup but cheat and use canned for that stuff and save the real ones for oven roasting. My grandmother had her family's recipe for smoking pumpkin pieces but I never liked pumpkin as pumpkin back then.

[not2late]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

I saw a great recipe in Gourmet magazine that layered thin slices of winter squash /91/8 inch thick) with sauteed spinach, topped with cheese and baked.

Since I didn't have any spinach, I layered the squash slices with sauteed ground beef (cooked with alittle tomato and onion) and cheese. It was a really nice "lasagna"....leftovers wee great too.

[boonie stomper]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

2big & Megs - I think i'll have to tryboth of those ideas - pumpkin lasagna (without the spinach) and roasted, with hickory flavoring. If the pumpkin turns out to be stringey maybe it will be like spaghetti squash? That would be ok, too.

[Miss Phode]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

When are you going to cook it?

[boonie stomper]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

Since it will freeze tonight, I think I'll start cutting it up watching a movie, and use the ground beef green tomato stuff (I made last night for lunch today, but will be having for dinner since I had breakfast for lunch) as a base for the lasagna. mmmmm... with mozzarella cheeeeese....

[not2late]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

So how was your pumpkin?

[boonie stomper]

Re: Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin recipe?

The pumpkin was nice - I tossed the bottom to the deer, gave 3 peeled rings to DM to make soup with, had some with ground beef (w/green maters onions etc) and smoked stovetop "baked" top.


My DS & I had the most fun with the top - we turned it into a "volcano" that spit steam & broth up the stump of a stem, which resembled a mountain on a dome of orange.
Can't say much for flavor, though. It was bland, and I had to smother it in salt & pepper.