Recipes with pumpkin??

B-J-D

my fav pumkin soup recipe is chunks of pumkin, onion, garlic and honey drizzled with oil and roasted til jus charing then wizzing up!! you can add a little liquid if needed but we like soup you can stand your spoon up in!!

i would use the swede in any kind of slow cooked onepots

we like beetroot (after being boiled and peeled like in above post) roasted with other vegis like courgettes, onion, fenel, musrooms, peppers ect then added to cousocus, pasta or rice

hope this can help

Shysarah

Ooo how lovely...

My favourite thing in the whole world.. freshly boiled beetroot still warm in fresh bread sarnie with loads of Hellmans Mayo..
Beetroot can also be roasted but if they are big I would go for the boiling method.
Jevvers your recipe sounds amazing I shall be saving that for when I can eat cheese again

S x

Mrs_Flittersnoop

Morning! My daughter's friend's dad who is a keen market gardener and exhibitor, sent her home with the most enormous giant green gourd for me last night. It is about the size of a watermelon with a long neck, dark green and stripy. Can't find a similar one on Google.

Can we eat this thing? I always thought gourds were ornamental only but we eat lots of squashes and marrows etc. Am willing to give it a go but don't want to give us all tummy ache. Does anyone know of any nice recipes for such a monster? Trust me, this thing is ENORMOUS and will feed us for a week! He also sent her with the biggest white cabbage in the universe, I fear things are going to be very windy round here for the next few days....

Thanks!
Mrs F xx

Sambucus_Nigra

Firstly I'd ask him what the name of the gourd is. Just to be on the safe side.

What I find with rather large squashes is that they are bred for size not taste.

And, the bigger they are, the more seeds in the middle so half of it will be put straight on the compost heap.

My favourites are squash soup - chopping it up and putting a fair amount to bulk up other soups, stews, curries, chillis etc - roasted in chilli, olive oil and cumin - and of course pumpkin pie

Penelope_Penguin

Mrs_Flittersnoop wrote: »

Morning! My daughter's friend's dad who is a keen market gardener and exhibitor, sent her home with the most enormous giant green gourd for me last night. It is about the size of a watermelon with a long neck, dark green and stripy. Can't find a similar one on Google.

That's like what I've grown - the packet was butternut squash I'm going to keep the largest to carve for halloween.

One of the more sensible sized one, I'm going to cut in half, take out the seeds, wash and toast to go into granola and flapjack (saving some to grow next year ). I'll then roast some of the flesh with olive oil and seasoning. If it has some flavour, and isn't all watery, I'll make soup and cook lots of it in pasta sauces and casseroles. It makes a nice addition to roasted roots. I make a spinach and squash lasagne.

I'll find the exisitng thread, and merge this later. You'll get loads more ideas there :T

Recipes with pumpkin

judesg

Jolaaled wrote: »

thing is... i bought this pumpkin to actually eat, not for the kids to carve..and tesco didn't have any sign up saying 'just for carving...tastes rank'!! I think it's a bit misleading of tesco.

This pumpkin wasn't just bland...it was bitter and bland and really yuk...i'm not going to risk using it in anything apart from the compost heap!

hi i've just cooked half a tesco pumkin which is labled culinary pumpkin it tastes awful i might take the other half back this is the second time i have tried to cook pumpkin last year i tried another tesco one with the same result is it just tesco or do they all taste bitter i thought they were supposed to be sweet things!!!

floyd

I used 3 Tesco pumpkins last year to make pumpkin pies (each about the size of a kids plastic football, the pumpkin not the pie) and they were fantastic. I did taste the pumpkin after it had steamed and it was pretty rank, I guess it just depends on the recipe as to whether it can carry something bland, Same with marrows, they taste of naff-all hence them usually being used as a carrier for something more flavoursome like spiced mince or in a chutney

parsonswife8

I am used to eating proper pumpkins which are bright orange and have white skin. Never seen them here though.:(

I stick to butternut with butter and a light sprinkling of :)cinnamon

Here..are the ones I used to eat as a child .http://www.discoverprotea.com/gem-squash-seed/boer-pampoen-seed

thisuseridistakenagain

Hi,

If I'm honest I bought a pumpkin to carve. It was 99p for a huge one at asda but obviously I'm not going to waste any!!

I've never had pumpkin before (my mam used to carve a swede with me because nobody liked pumpkin!!)

So once I've scooped it out. I thought soup. but its pretty sweet isn't it? What should i put in there with it?

any other pumpkin ideas? its huge!!

adelight

Google pumpkin soup, I've had a few different kinds and they're all been great but don't have any recipe links i'm afraid.
The seeds are delicious toasted in the oven with paprika and salt.