For dessert this Thanksgiving, we made pumpkin pie from pure pumpkin puree. It took about 15 minutes to prepare the pumpkin before baking it for 90 minutes, then removing the flesh allowing the baked pumpkin to drain for several hours. Sure it’s more preparation than opening a can and scooping pumpkin into a crust, of course, [...]
For the past few years we’ve seen an heirloom pumpkin revival, a sprawling showcase of wild gourds at orchards, farm stands and farmers’ markets. More and more Fairy Tales and blue Hubbards are debuting on doorsteps or at dinner parties, these beauties standing out amongst a family of round, tall, flat, warted, grey, white, [...]
