Pumpkins and Baking

Carved a pumpkin last night just in time for Halloween—well, 2 weeks early but I like to get ahead of things and I had some free time…

Anyway, I have always liked making jack o lantern’s, and prefer to make my pumpkins especially scary. I won’t offer any step by step instructions because I’m sure you all know how to carve a pumpkin BUT here are some pictures of the process:

Since, we are on the subject of pumpkins, I thought I should also share offer recipes for roasting pumpkin seeds, and baking pumpkin (or butternut squash) pies.

I’m not one to waste food—which I am sure you already gathered from my banana bread post—so I definitely wanted to utilise my pumpkin in a few ways. I know the recipe is called pumpkin pie, but you can use any kind of squash. I used Butternut Squash because that's what I had laying around.

I was always under the impression that one should make a pumpkin pie with sugar pumpkins only. We don’t have them here in the UK (or at least to my knowledge), so I went with butternut squash instead. Tasted just as good as pumpkin and I was even able to make 2 pies with just one medium sized squash.

Recipes after the JUMP