How To Cook A Pumpkin Or Squash

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 pumpkin or 1 squash

Recipe

• 1 the easy way: wash outside of fruit, cut in half, scrape out seeds (save for roasting into snacks) and that stringy stuff, place halves face down on a cookie sheet.
• 2 bake at 300 (or so) until "meat" is tender; discard shells/skin.
• 3 use meat as called for in pie or cake recipe.
• 4 or mash or blend meat until very smooth (add a bit of water), heat in a soup pot, and then ladle into clean hot jars, seal with canning lids, and process in hot water bath or pressure cooker. label & use for pie filling or cake recipes.
• 5 the hard way: cut fruit into spears, remove seeds & stringy fibers, then using a paring knife or peeler, remove skins. cut into large chunks and cook down in a soup pot to make pie filling or roast with other autumn vegetables (balsamic vinegar & sea salt make a nice marinade!).