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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 9:51 am Post subject: Pumpkins!
Loads of 'em, on the market and even the supermarkets, the ones on the market here are at least locally grown. A great opportunity to pick out pumkin and squash varieties you haven't tried yet, or just to make the most of the ones normally sold for carving (and while they're not the tastiest varieties they're still capital eating).

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 10:23 am Post subject:
I buy mine from a local stand outside someones house I made an excellent pumpkin soup, plus pumpkin pie last year and also roasted the seeds. Will wait towards the end of the month before i buy

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 10:24 am Post subject:
Put a bit of smoked paprika in when you roast the seeds.

gnasher

Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 332
Location: Dorset

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 12:23 pm Post subject:
i'll be getting mine after halloween when they are all half price.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 12:51 pm Post subject:
good idea my pumkin crop failed due to last year's promiscuous plants!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 1:13 pm Post subject:
Never used them. Those small ones, that look like a single portion, eg about the size of a softball, anyone got a recipe to use them, ideally whole? Can I just top them, hollow, fill with something, re-lid, and roast, or something?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 1:13 pm Post subject:

alisjs wrote:

good idea

my pumkin crop failed due to last year's promiscuous plants!

Pumpkins/squashes/courgettes are always complete tarts. If you're seed saving you have to be really quite cunning!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 1:27 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Never used them.

Those small ones, that look like a single portion, eg about the size of a softball, anyone got a recipe to use them, ideally whole?

Can I just top them, hollow, fill with something, re-lid, and roast, or something?

Yep. There's an HFW recipe using cream and gruyere which is good if stunningly rich.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 1:28 pm Post subject:
Hm. I have double cream and dolcelatte. Bet it would be even richer...

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 3:31 pm Post subject:
You want the cinammon, nutmeg, double cream, condensed milk, sugar and butter option I think... I have succumbed - how do I store it until next week as I have just thrown down a mine will be spookier challenge...

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 08 11:09 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

alisjs wrote:

good idea

my pumkin crop failed due to last year's promiscuous plants!

Pumpkins/squashes/courgettes are always complete tarts. If you're seed saving you have to be really quite cunning!

Oh don't go and scare people, it's really quite easy. All you have to do is get used to what the flowers look like. Tape a female flower shut the night before it would normally open (otherwise it'll open up before you can get to it, I can almost promise you). Then you find a male flower from the same plant, or another that you want to pollinate it with, rip off the petals so you can really stick the anthers (bits that hold the pollen) into the female flower and get as much pollen on there as you can. Then tape the flower back up so nothing can get in there with a foreign pollen. All you have to do at that point is mark that fruit so you know which one you controlled the pollination of. (I would either scratch a design into the fruit itself - looks real funky when it grows large - or put a very loose ring of tape around the stem)

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 08 7:54 am Post subject:
Sex in your house must be a real blast.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 08 9:52 am Post subject:

Slim wrote:

See, thats like I said, really quite cunning

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 08 12:16 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Sex in your house must be a real blast.

That's about the only sex that goes on...

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