Harvest supper tonight
@sallypup (61136)
Centralia, Washington
November 21, 2023 8:29pm CST
We've had our four garden pumpkins sitting on the front porch. Hubby brought the smallest pumpkin into the kitchen and started to clean its seeds and inner goop out. He did it the way a person does for a Halloween Jack O Lantern.
I took the round top part, the part that has a stem handle, and baked it. The pumpkin baked up quite tender.
We had chunks of the pumpkin with a spoon of hummus, Swiss chard and some canned garbanzos for protein. I've always heard that Jack O Lantern pumpkins were only good for decoration but this one tasted fine to us.
Hubby is going to cut up the rest of the pumpkin and bag it in chunks and freeze the chunks for later. Three more pumpkins to go and one of them has to weigh forty pounds. No sense in buying yams and such until we eat all this pumpkin- wonder if we'll get that done before Spring?!
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@celticeagle (167025)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Nov 23
A lot of meat there. You will probably eat them up before spring.
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@celticeagle (167025)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Nov 23
@sallypup .......I used to take carotene pills to help with my tan.
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@celticeagle You got sick of eating carrots?
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@celticeagle Let's see if I turn orange before Spring.
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@RasmaSandra (79886)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Nov 23
My mom used to make marinated pumpkin salad and it was very good, If I want pumpkin I buy a pumpkin pie, Enjoy the pumpkin. Happy Thanksgiving to you,
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@RasmaSandra (79886)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Nov 23
@sallypup she made a mix of water, vinegar, sugar, added 2 cinnamon sticks and cut up chunks of pumpkin and boiled it. The boiling was for about half an hour until the pumpkins were tender but not going to mush. Then let them stand to cool and the pumpkin chunks could be eaten with other things.
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@RasmaSandra Interesting. Thanks. This recipe kind of reminds me of the recipe for wilted lettuce.
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@RasmaSandra Thanks. What was in the marinated pumpkin salad? Marinated with what? Cooked or raw pumpkin?
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
22 Nov 23
Enjoy your harvest.
Do you freeze it whole or while cut?
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@Missmwngi We cut up pieces then freeze them.
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
22 Nov 23
@sallypup I once had a pumpkin go bad. It did not occur to me i can do that.
That's why I have asked. Now I know
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@Missmwngi Cut up pieces takes up less space in the freezer. You could also can it or dry it.
@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
22 Nov 23
I freeze produce from my garden also. It means healthy food available during the winter months when the price of produce is high here. Also I think home grown is always better, as I'm eating it.
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@sallypup (61136)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Nov 23
@Fishmomma I am with you on those prices. Produce is expensive so we've decided to eat what we have rather than buy something from the store.
@snowy22315 (180768)
• United States
22 Nov 23
Good for you...nice healthy non, wasteful meal.
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
22 Nov 23
It's good that the pumpkins won't be wasted. Wishing you and your hubs a great day and a great Thanksgiving.
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@allknowing (136480)
• India
23 Nov 23
Strange that pumpkins that are used for Jack O Lantern cannot be cooked. In what way are they different? Good that you used tem.
