My poor, poor kids. First, we waited until the last minute to take a trip to the pumpkin patch. Then we brought home ONE pumpkin. And then that one pumpkin sat on our kitchen table until three days after Halloween. Un-carved. Neglected.
Necco was desperate to carve our lone pumpkin. Every night, for several nights in a row, she asked, “Can we carve the pumpkin tonight?” Finally it was time, and we carved.
Come to find out, Necco didn’t care so much about the pumpkin as she did about the pumpkin seeds. I could have cut the thing in half and she would have been happy.
I, on the other hand, had been eyeing the pumpkin for a week thinking about all of the great pumpkin desserts I could make out of it. Pumpkin pudding cake, pumpkin bread, pumpkin roll, pumpkin cookies. A few years ago, I discovered the most amazing thing. Chop a pumpkin up into chunks, boil the pieces, and then blend them -rind and all- to make the simplest, best pumpkin for all of those classic desserts. Pooh to that canned stuff.
Sadly, the pumpkin was carved (the boys handled the carving details. I am not a carver. I’m a seed-scooper). It is now sitting out on our front porch, lonely.
The seeds turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.
So what do you do with your pumpkins? Are you a carver, a scooper, a spectator, a painter….or a non-pumpkin person?
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