Any uses for pumpkin guts?

[Lady Henevere]

We will be hollowing out a bunch of pumpkins for a Halloween party this year. Other than saving the seeds, do any of you have good ideas for using the stringy goop from the inside of the pumpkins? Thanks.

 

[deb4o]

Do you have chickens?

Mine love all that stringy junk.


Or compost,
thats about all I do with it.

So group any other ideas?

 

[urban dreamer]

I second chickens. Good natural worm control! Becareful with compost or you'll have punkins growing in it!

 

[TanksHill]

I give mine to the chickens as well.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

all the poultry will love them or keep a bunch and plant next year!

WifeZilla had a recipe for spicy roasted seeds... might want to check it out. i cant remember where i saw it but you could search on pumpkin seed recipe and see whatcha get

 

[Wildsky]

I roasted and salted the seeds a few years back, and my son has been whining for more ever since then.

 

[BarredBuff]

The chickens love them.

 

[FarmerChick]

roast the seeds for yourself
save some seeds to grow ur own pumpkins next year

and my goats eat all the guts and everything else I throw out there, they chew the rinds if I cut them up in small chunks

zero waste

 

[kcsunshine]

Yum! I had some pumpkin pickles this weekend. Never knew you could make pumpkin pickles. I've found a recipe and I'm gettin' me a pumpkin.

 

[ORChick]

Yum! I had some pumpkin pickles this weekend. Never knew you could make pumpkin pickles. I've found a recipe and I'm gettin' me a pumpkin.

When I moved to Germany many years ago I wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner for my new friends. There were all sorts of problems finding what I needed, including the turkey (!), and I had to compromise on some things, but that first year I almost missed out on the pumpkin pie entirely. The only pumpkin/squash that I could find was pickled! Nothing fresh in the markets, certainly none canned plain. Luckily I met a woman who had access to the PX at one of the army bases, and she helped me out. The following year I saw a house with a field of pumpkins, pulled together all my courage (and all my German language skills ), knocked on the door, and asked if I could buy one. No problem (and very cheap), but they looked at me like I had two heads. I don't know if they raised them for pickles (lots of pickles!), or to feed a pig, but I'm pretty sure they weren't making pumpkin pie . Things have changed since then; I have seen a number of recipes for winter squash in German publications, so they must be available. But I have still never eaten pumpkin pickles