Journal jawtheshark's Journal: Ask Slashcooks 41
Now, perhaps you don't know this, but I'm the guy that is responsible for the food on the table each evening. I don't mean that in the way "I earn the money" because my wife earns more than I do, I mean it in the way: "I stir the spoon in the pot".
I've become pretty good, but well, I stay to my standard recipes. (Which is pretty much "I try to cook what my mother cooked") So, if I get pumpkin, I make soup. It's pretty much the only thing Europeans do with pumpkins. (I think...) So, after too much pumpkin soup, I got this 2.6kg pumpkin and I do not want to make soup with it. There you guys come in. I know you Americans have a thing for pumpkins and have 1001 different recipes for it. I'd like to make something like pumpkin pies, or pumpkin muffins... What ever, as long as it's not soup!
Yeah, I could google, but why would I if I've got so many people willing to help, eh?
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I would make.. but wait.. I'm not an American. Shit.
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Okay, all other nationalities are officially asked too now... Happy?
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He's Belgian... I bet he's going to fry it ;-))
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I am from Antwerp, after all.
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I only know about pies and bread (Score:1)
That's interesting. I am an American, but I don't think I've ever had pumpkin soup. The only think they make out of pumpkins is pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, and you can only find pumpkins in the store around Halloween. This must be one of those stereotypes, like "Chinese people know Kung-Fu." This time, it's "Americans have all kinds of pumpkin recipes." It's because of thanksgiving, isn't it? They don't celebrat
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You want 'pie' or 'sugar' pumpkins. Sadly you can only find even the pie pumpkins from about mid-October to mid-December. This despite the fact they keep just as well as any other winter squash. Most people haven't a clue what to do with fresh pumpkin so the vast majority end up getting carved for Halloween or as pies.
As for
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Alton Brown just did pumpkins (Score:2)
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Hm (Score:2)
Anyway, I think that the vast majority of pumpkins sold in the US and Canada are carved into jack-o-lanterns on Halloween and then thrown out. Maybe the pumpkin seeds get roasted and eaten.
Ah, there's an idea. this recipe [fabulousfoods.com] for roasted pumpkin seeds looks pretty much like the way we do it around here (the oven temp is in Fahrenheit there, btw
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I'd never heard of pumpkin soup before, btw.
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I'm not a pumpkin person (Score:1)
One thing you can do is dry out/roast the seeds and eat them. But as to the non-seed part I've got no ideas.
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look for African recipes (Score:2)
I'll see if I can find a recipe later on, though you'll probably find lots of cool recipes if you did a search...
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