Pumpkins
PHOTO and recipe: Seminole Pumpkin Harvest
Harvested these beauties this past week from two plants that I planted in some compost on a tree- and weed-covered lot next to our house. There are plenty more small ones on the vines so these will keep producing until frost inevitably hits Lehigh. The amazing thing about this plant is that the original plant can be cut and the vines will continue to grow if they rooted. We were also growing one in a pot, cut the plant at soil level, removed the pot and the plant is still growing!
Roasted Seminole Pumpkin Recipe
Harvested these beauties this past week from two plants that I planted in some compost on a tree- and weed-covered lot next to our house. There are plenty more small ones on the vines so these will keep producing until frost inevitably hits Lehigh. The amazing thing about this plant is that the original plant can be cut and the vines will continue to grow if they rooted. We were also growing one in a pot, cut the plant at soil level, removed the pot and the plant is still growing!
Roasted Seminole Pumpkin Recipe
- Preheat oven to 400º convection or 425º regular
- Wash pumpkin
- Cut in half (or smaller, make it serving sized)
- Scoop out seeds (and save for next year, see my jar of fermenting seeds in the photo)
- Scrape inside clean (I use a spoon)
- Coat flesh with olive oil (I use a cooking brush)
- Place on a baking pan flesh side up (parchment paper down first helps with clean up)
- Bake until a fork can easily go through the flesh
- Serve as is (we eat with a spoon discarding the peel)
Seminole Pumpkin Soup (our favorite)
- Roast Pumpkin (see above)
- Allow to cool enough so you can handle easily
- Using large spoon scoop out the flesh and place in blender (do not exceed half full with flesh)
- Add chicken stock to cover pulp and continue to add chicken stock until the volume is doubled
- Half flesh and half chicken stock works best in my blender
- Liquefy pumpkin flesh and chicken stock (we add garlic, onion, salt and pepper to the blender mix)
- Reheat via microwave or stove-top
- TASTE and season
- Serve HOT
