Pumpking Thread for Sarah

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Not just a choice in a J. Crew Catalogue, pumpkings are here to stay, at least until they get so rotted and nasty that you have to put them out on the curb.

PUMPKINGS!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Superb! Although sadly I did not make my pumpking pie. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my gosh thank you Tracer Hand! Gosh I love pumpkings. I'm generally suspicious of food that works so well in both sweet AND savoury manners but PUMPKING WINS! The pumpkin curry they have at Wagamama, a nice pumpkin stew or soup and then you have pumpkin PIE! I still haven't made my pumpkin pie but I've got in a STASH of happy pumpkin puree from the happy shop.

They're a BUGGER to cut into though which is sadly why I have not bought a whole pumpkin yet this year. Butternut squash is a lot easier to peel and slice and dice but it's NOT THE SAME.

I wish that there would be more seasonal brand additions in pumpkin flavour. Pumpkin kit kats!!! I'm going to check out Starbucks for pumpkin kawfee.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My landlady made "pumpking risotto" last Thursday. It was NUMMERS. Ha yet another new-world fancy-pants bastardization of classic Italian cooking that kicks ass! (The other being: tomato sauce)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Has she got any tips for the slicin' and thee dicin' of tha pumpking? I remember slaving over them last year.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Buy a can of butternut squash.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Butternut != pumpkings by a long shot!

Also if you want a nice pumpkin curry with big hunks of the pumpkin in it you can't use bloomin' puree. Unless there's tinned DICED pumpking about but I've not seen it!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Pumpkin rissoto (Risotto A Zucci or some such nonsense) is very, very Italian. And nummy.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but I am a purée purist and I believe that pumpkins were unknown in Spain until Chistopher Columbus's discovery of Thanksgiving in 1492.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my fave pumpking product may be toasted seeds with loads of salt! (and - some other crucial spice? Cumin?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked raw pumpking seeds until I saw they were about nine kabillion calories each and I'd be better off with a pie the size of my FACE! What is up with that??

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Each seed contains an entire pumpkin fetus

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaah, look at their lickle pumpking faces....

(Morning after, look at my lickle pumpking faeces).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

MOVING ON (as would the pumpking seeds I guess), no pumpkin coffee in my nearbyb emporia! I wonder why I'm convinced it exists? No pumpkins in BAGELMANIA either although num num scrambled eg bagel look'd nice.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

pumpkin COFFEE?! surely that is pumpking mentalism?!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly but it should exist! Perhaps I am confusing it with gingerbread coffee which I can't find anywhere either. I can't believe pumpkin cream cheese goes by without naysay but pumpkin coffee which sounds relatively normal gets the gasps!!

Unless I am insane.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the pumpkings have finally got to you.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather they come directly to me rather than via the medium of CREAM CHEESE!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the thread where I extoll the genius of the Krispy Kreme Pumpkin Spice Cake doughnut.

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, so far this fall I've made pumpkin pie and pumpkin curry soup. And had pumpkin ice cream TWICE.

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have a problem with the name 'Krispy Kreme'.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I raosted some butternut squash with chilli and garlic on Saturday, does that count?

― chris (chris), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I have butternut in the fridge. What should I do with it?

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hints for getting into pumpkings!! Chris were it nice? I can't believe we are in ROASTING SEASON and I've done bugger all in the oven so far - admittedly this is my own fault for leaving the roasting tin several houses back...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It was lovely yes, simply peel and chop into decent sized chunks, toss iwth oil, salt, pepper, sliced garlic and roughly chopped chilli. Put in a hottish oven and turn wwehenever they look like burning. Chewy on the outside, smooth on the inside, sweet with a chilli kick.

― chris (chris), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Cabbage, if you have leftovers you can shove it in a blender with some stock for k-delish soup.

I bet you polished it all off though :)

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

natch

― chris (chris), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I told you! I told you! LOOK! Pumpkin coffee!!

In a giant PUMPKING HAMPER!

I so want this.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed gave me a v nice recipe for roasting a pumpkin which I may well try out tonight! It is basically, stuff some bacon in hollowed out pumpking.

Roast it.

(Do you have to peel it?)

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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