Thread: Mini pumpkin ideas?

Ken added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on 8/3/2010
in writing
> Everyone,
>
> This year, I got several mini pumpkin volunteers with many pumpkins on
> them. The oldest is just barely turning orange. Does anyone use
> these for food instead of just decoration? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Ken

Use them as you would any squash, but be prepared to add a lot of sugar
with second-generation squashes. Just my guess.

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On Aug 3, 10:09*am, Ken <threeriversguy_2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> This year, I got several mini pumpkin volunteers with many pumpkins on
> them. *The oldest is just barely turning orange. *Does anyone use
> these for food instead of just decoration? *Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Ken

Depending on how big they can get, cut the tops off, clean out the
inside and either use them for a soup bowl or
stuff with a tasty filling and bake.

On Tue 03 Aug 2010 10:44:20a, DanS. told us...

> Ken added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on
> 8/3/2010 in writing
>> Everyone,
>>
>> This year, I got several mini pumpkin volunteers with many
>> pumpkins on them. The oldest is just barely turning orange.
>> Does anyone use these for food instead of just decoration? Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>>
>> Ken
>
> Use them as you would any squash, but be prepared to add a lot of
> sugar with second-generation squashes. Just my guess.
>

Unless, of course, you're preparing them as a savory. My first
inclination, however, is to bake them in the same manner as I do
acorn squash; split, buttered, sprinkled with brown sugar and spices.

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Wayne Boatwright

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:38:38 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Unless, of course, you're preparing them as a savory. My first
> inclination, however, is to bake them in the same manner as I do
> acorn squash; split, buttered, sprinkled with brown sugar and spices.

I've never made that stew/chili (whatever it is) in a pumpkin, but
they seem like they'd be perfect serving bowls for it.

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On Aug 3, 9:09*am, Ken <threeriversguy_2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> This year, I got several mini pumpkin volunteers with many pumpkins on
> them. *The oldest is just barely turning orange. *Does anyone use
> these for food instead of just decoration? *Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Ken

Everyone,

Thanks for the replies. Keep 'em comin'.

I was thinking maybe hollow them out, make a filling of ground meat,
sausage meat, rice, tomatoes, etc. Or cube them and use them in vegie
stew. The first one is just barely turning orange, so I have several
weeks to figure it out. The biggest these get is probably about four
inches (ten cm.)

As a by the way, I discovered deer won't eat mini pumpkin plants.

Ken