We didn't carve all of the pumpkins we had for Halloween this year. Left over was this gorgeous
fairy tale pumpkin. Other web sites mentioned that it was a sweet cooking and canning heirloom pumpkin. The first thing I noticed when cutting it open was the shockingly bright orange flesh inside. The second surprise was that some of the seeds inside had already sprouted! I think the warm October weather helped them along. The flesh was still firm and tasty so we processed the pumpkin anyway.
Matthew and Melissa are good helpers. They did all of the squashing and cranking.
We got 25 cups of "pumpkin guts" out of it and have made several delicious pumpkin pies (one of which we ate for Thanksgiving). The rest is stashed away in the freezer.
The kids saved some of the seeds and now we have half a dozen pumpkin plants growing by a warm sunny window.
Matthew and Melissa are good helpers. They did all of the squashing and cranking.
We got 25 cups of "pumpkin guts" out of it and have made several delicious pumpkin pies (one of which we ate for Thanksgiving). The rest is stashed away in the freezer.
2 comments:
awesome! i didn't even think about saving seeds! Doh!
very nice! I had great hopes for our pumpkins this year, but all we got was one 6 inch one... the weather did not cooperate:(.
Tell Matthew that James loved his cub scout picture! (James can't wait to be a cub scout)
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