I really ought to know better, but every year I am beguiled by the appeal of Autumnal cheeriness that is the assortment of squashes, etc., and while they are available in their multi coloured and shaped glory, I buy a few.
Every year I end up feeding the seeds to the birds and most of the pumpkiny stuff to the worms in my compost heap.
Butternut squash I quite like in soup, but no one else in the household does. They like pie for pudding, I'm not fond. They don't much rate pumpkin pie. It's bland sweetness doesn't appeal to them.
I've just thrown the last of the pumpkin to the worms, and the seeds to the birds (I don't like them oil roasted, too greasy too heartburn making) and I can't be bothered drying them out, cracking them, then boiling them to seperate them from their skins, and then drying them again, to make the kind that I can bake with; when to be honest, I know how it's done, and if need comes to shove I can do it, but they cost pennies to buy, and there's not exactly a lot in one wee pumpkin anyway, and the birds do relish them.
So, after all that
, I still have three squashy things to use up.
To be honest, I'm scunnered with them. I just can't be bothered. Does anyone have any really good recipes that I might enjoy ?
We're (mostly, Himself eats meat) vegetarian, but that's the only caveat. Everything else I can work around.
atb,
Toddy
Every year I end up feeding the seeds to the birds and most of the pumpkiny stuff to the worms in my compost heap.
Butternut squash I quite like in soup, but no one else in the household does. They like pie for pudding, I'm not fond. They don't much rate pumpkin pie. It's bland sweetness doesn't appeal to them.
I've just thrown the last of the pumpkin to the worms, and the seeds to the birds (I don't like them oil roasted, too greasy too heartburn making) and I can't be bothered drying them out, cracking them, then boiling them to seperate them from their skins, and then drying them again, to make the kind that I can bake with; when to be honest, I know how it's done, and if need comes to shove I can do it, but they cost pennies to buy, and there's not exactly a lot in one wee pumpkin anyway, and the birds do relish them.
So, after all that
To be honest, I'm scunnered with them. I just can't be bothered. Does anyone have any really good recipes that I might enjoy ?
We're (mostly, Himself eats meat) vegetarian, but that's the only caveat. Everything else I can work around.
atb,
Toddy