What's for Dinner?

[DrakeMaiden]

Dragonlaurel -- you can also use winter squash in that soup, if you wanted.

 

[me&thegals]

Wow- 2 good recipes to try. I am going to get a bigger pumpkin than I expected. I want seeds too so a fresh pumpkin is the way to go. Thank you !

dragonlaurel--I'm sure you already know this, but be sure to get a good *eating* pumpkin, not the ones usually sold for Jack-O-Lanterns.

I've been growing enormous Amish Pie Squash and other huge varieties, about 30+ lb each since we go through so much pumpkin! Nuts--I need more mealtimes to start making pumpkin things, too!

Drakemaiden--I barged in with my own recipe, so thanks for yours!

For supper tonight: I think we will go with BLTs, but I have a *pending* menu that is growing every time I open this thread, dognabbit!

 

[dragonlaurel]

Are the smaller pumpkins at the stores the eating ones? The store had some medium size cream colored pumpkins too. I cant grow them in the apartment , so I'm stuck buying them, this year.

I love butternut squash too. I also cook acorn squash with stuffing for thanksgiving. Vegetarians gotta have some stuffing in something. Yummm. I used "Pepperidge Farm herb seasoned" but will be doing it from scratch since we make our own bread now. I like to eat less processed anyway. That Amish pie squash sounds good but there's just the two of us.

 

[me&thegals]

dragon--I just don't know. The cream-colored one sounds more promising. Maybe at the store they would know the variety? I used to try cooking with lantern pumpkins and really did not like pumpkin, until I found out those varieties have been bred for huge cavities and seeds, not taste.

If you don't think you can find a small "pie pumpkin," I would agree with what someone mentioned earlier: Using squash. Pumpkins and squash are all in the same family anyway. Butternuts are great for soups, baking, everything.

Oh, do I go on and on about pumpkins...

 

[dragonlaurel]

The smaller ones they had were 6-8 inches tall. They may have been pie pumpkins. I want a cooking pumpkin or squash but enjoy the seeds too. I think squash seeds are eaten the same way. I do.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Dragonlaurel -- if the pumpkin was in with the squash in the produce section, then it probably is meant to eat. If it was sitting outside or next to a candy display . . . . Well, you could probably still eat it, but you would want to add some sugar maybe.

Me&thegals -- The more pumpkin recipes the merrier!

 

[keljonma]

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls, I think.

Took some of my potato-garlic-carrot soup out of the freezer and made Sausage Cheese muffins to go with it instead.

ETA: recipe

Sausage Cheddar Cheese Muffins
2 c flour
2 T sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 c milk
1/4 c melted butter
1/2 lb bulk pork, cooked
1/2 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Combine dry ingredients; combine egg, milk, butter. stir into the dry ingredients. Fold in sausage and shredded cheese Fill greased muffin pans

Bake 375 for 18-22 minutes (it usually takes over 22 minutes) Cool 5 minutes. Serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers These freeze well, and just reheat in the oven or microwave.

 

[dragonlaurel]

It was in the produce section. They had the big box of normal jack o lantern type. Some whitish pumpkins on the side and the small orange ones on the shelf by the others. They just wrote prices but not labels. I think I'll just go to the farmers market instead of guessing.
Feel free to keep posting pumpkin and squash recipes. I'm good at eating them.

 

[kimnkell]

We're having chicken and dumplings or homemade chicken soup that I have been canning. Heck, maybe both. lol...

Kim

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Hmmm . . . doesn't sound promising, Dragonlaurel! I bet you will have better luck at the farmer's market.