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| An edible pumpkin about to be cooked in my kitchen a few years ago. |
Thanksgiving is coming, and thus pumpkins have turned from a decorative/scary item into a food. Pumpkins that are grown for jack-o-lanterns generally have flesh that is stringy and watery — including, both big and small decorative pumpkins. Small edible pumpkins are the ones you buy if you want to cook them — the stores label them as “pie pumpkins.” They would also make good pumpkin soup, roast pumpkin, or pumpkin stew. I assume that canned pumpkin also comes from this cultivar, though certain other types of squash are also used (legally) in canned pumpkin.
Decorative pumpkins wouldn’t poison you, but just wouldn’t make good food. After the holiday, the giant pumpkins in our neighborhood (as far as I know) are picked up by the same truck that brought them. I have no idea how the disposal is done, but I assume they go to some composting center.
Pumpkin Decorations
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| The pumpkin wall on Halloween night. It goes on much longer than this. (Alice’s photo) |
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| The pumpkin wall on Sunday. Some pumpkins remain, others are gone. |
Cooking pumpkin and squash
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| A pumpkin pie web image search. |
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| An old spice container with pumpkin pie spice that my mother always used. |
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| Making soup in my kitchen this week: a squash that’s equivalent to pumpkin. |
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| Stereotyped Thanksgiving image with pumpkins. |
Our Leaders Enjoy A Meal?
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Presidential banquet, starving masses. (Image from the Guardian)
Thinking about Thanksgiving forces me to consider how some Americans are being abused,
deprived of ways to buy food, and kicked around by our leaders. |
Blog post © 2025 mae sander
6 comments:
I love pumpkin bread and soup but not all the pumpkin variations. I think my favorite is just seeing them as they are -- used as table decoration or in the yard. And of course, at Halloween! They're just pretty. My oldies end up in the depths of the backyard. I hack open a side so the critters can get at it. By spring it has usually been eaten -- or degraded!
I've been thinking about some pumpkin baking, and now I really must do some. My mother had that same jar of pumpkin pie spice.And wow, that line of carved pumpkins is big...I can't believe how far it must go. Hugs-Erika
Ingo once made pumpkin - it was no decorative one yet... ugh. I didn´t like it. His Grandma´s I liked neither... Would give yours a try but you´re too far away (I´d only try a tiny bite)...
Have fun using yours!
Hello,
I have used the pumpkin puree, sad to hear it may not be pumpkin at all. I love the photos of the carved pumpkins on the wall. Take care, enjoy your day!
I like most things made with pumpkin. I have made a delicious pumpkin soup too, and different recipe from yours, but yours looks interesting. We didnt grow any pumpkin this year, just butternut and candy roaster. Usuwe have a pumpkin volunteer in the garden but not this year.
I agree about the abuse of the needy this year. Heartless to use them as a pawn in this political game.
That pumpkin wall is so cool. Love it .... and pumpkin pie too.
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