Today I warily cooked up the first of our four very large hubbard squashes from the garden. I was told from a pretty reliable source that hubbards were NOT good eating. So I was a bit concerned about what I had undertaken.
After finally getting the thing cut in two, I was pleasantly surprised to find large seeds perfect for roasting. I really shouldn’t have been that surprised, since it’s basically just a big, blue-gray pumpkin.
While it was baking in the oven, I cleaned the seeds and got them ready to roast in the oven using my favorite “sugar and spice pumpkin seed” recipe. Yum!
It baked up very nicely and after running it through the food mill, it remarkably resembled pumpkin.
So I reasoned that if it looks like pumpkin, has seeds like pumpkin, is textured like pumpkin, smells like pumpkin and tastes pretty similar to pumpkin why can’t I use it like pumpkin.
Our first test was Zack’s preschool recipe for pumpkin muffins. (see link http://carriesbestrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/11/pumpkin-muffins.html ) Warm out of the oven they tasted pretty good! Next test: pumpkin pie…
1 comment:
I would love the cinnamon and spice pumpkin seed recipe!
~Misty (using Brian's account because I'm too lazy to sign out and back in, ha ha)
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