Pumpkinlicious

Friday, November 19, 2010

Several weeks ago we made a trip to the pumpkin patch to pick our favorite jack-o-latern material. My over zealous husband, who was excited to spend his first holiday with the family since being back, told Manuel to pick not one, but two unnecessarily big pumpkins.
Turns out, we're not real big fans of carving pumpkins around here so we ended up with 5 pumpkins that weren't carved, including one that was big enough to become our new home. The thrifty side of me could not stand to see those pumpkins turn into pumpkin bowling material so, I spent an amazing amount of time slicing, steaming, and pureeing these pumpkins!

A slice of the monster pumpkin! (this is only a slice of a half of the pumpkin)

The mountain of chunks

My wonderful food processor

That is a lot of puree (one of many pans)

Now I know that the experts say that the bigger pumpkins have less taste, but honestly I didn't notice a difference. It wasn't stringy, it has the same texture, taste and color as pumpkin pie pumpkins. So, my labor might not have been in vain. We've already enjoyed some

That's a look of approval if I've ever seen one!

Pumpkin yogurt

and the all time fav...

Pumpkin Milkshakes!

I'm sure I'll have many more pumpkin recipes to try, as we might be enjoying this pumpkin for the next year. What's your favorite pumpkin recipe?