Colowyo - grudgingly settling in :P

[lorihadams]

You can cook up one of those big pumpkins too! Cut the top off and scrape out the insides and roast it in the oven in a deep pan cause it may fall apart on you. My mom did a "red warty thing" last year and it was incredibly good!

As for the pumpkin butter

*cook your pumpkin, take off the skin and puree the insides
*put the puree in a crock pot or large stock pot with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, brown sugar and a little honey to taste
*Cook on low for 3-4 hours to desired thickness stirring often so that it doesn't stick on the bottom
*you can either put into jars and process them in a boiling water bath 15 minutes to seal or freeze it (I have made a small batch and frozen it in pint jars--just allow 1-2 inches of head room for expansion)



Edited to add----you can also start with applesauce and make apple butter!

 

[colowyo0809]

You can cook up one of those big pumpkins too! Cut the top off and scrape out the insides and roast it in the oven in a deep pan cause it may fall apart on you. My mom did a "red warty thing" last year and it was incredibly good!

As for the pumpkin butter

*cook your pumpkin, take off the skin and puree the insides
*put the puree in a crock pot or large stock pot with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, brown sugar and a little honey to taste
*Cook on low for 3-4 hours to desired thickness stirring often so that it doesn't stick on the bottom
*you can either put into jars and process them in a boiling water bath 15 minutes to seal or freeze it (I have made a small batch and frozen it in pint jars--just allow 1-2 inches of head room for expansion)



Edited to add----you can also start with applesauce and make apple butter!

question, again once its unfrozen do I then need to can it?

 

[lorihadams]

No, freeze it in a pint jar and when you are ready to use it put it in the fridge to thaw for a day or so. If you can't eat a whole pint jar in 1-2 weeks then use half pint jars.....we can go through a whole pint jar of it in one sitting here....you can put it in pancakes too!


Geez, I'm gaining weight just thinking about it!

If you want you can just freeze the puree without the spices and thaw it out and add it later. You can freeze it in freezer bags too. You want to do some plain to add to soups and stews or pancakes or bread or....dang this is making me hungry!!!

 

[lorihadams]

Oh, and if you don't want to use the brown sugar you can substitute honey or molasses.

 

[colowyo0809]

No, freeze it in a pint jar and when you are ready to use it put it in the fridge to thaw for a day or so. If you can't eat a whole pint jar in 1-2 weeks then use half pint jars.....we can go through a whole pint jar of it in one sitting here....you can put it in pancakes too!


Geez, I'm gaining weight just thinking about it!

If you want you can just freeze the puree without the spices and thaw it out and add it later. You can freeze it in freezer bags too. You want to do some plain to add to soups and stews or pancakes or bread or....dang this is making me hungry!!!

question, if you are making pancakes with it do you subsitute it for the water/milk?

 

[colowyo0809]

So, we will be taking a road trip
william has stage 3 lung cancer and while my mother told me it was up to us if we come up or not, she did say that they would like to see both of us before he starts chemo, since then he'll be too sick to fully appreciate it. so, we are making plans now. also, we are going to have to take some food with us since eastern montana isn't necessarily big on gluten free anything. *sigh* this trip is needed but damn! I hate that ten-twelve hour drive!

In other news, we went out and bought an electric fully enclosed space heater and a food processor, both at *shudder* walmart. my insides started twitching the moment we walked in and went by the mcdonalds. I'm getting to really hate going into large box stores.

 

[lorihadams]

Me too....I try not to go but find I'm there once or twice a month. Blech!

As far as the puree goes....no just add it to the batter. You may want to do it before you add the water/milk so that you don't get it too liquidy for your taste.

My son loves pumpkin pancakes and muffins....we add raisins to the batter if we are making muffins.....YUMMY.

Be careful on your trip!

 

[valmom]

Sorry to hear about your mother's BF. Seems as I get older, there is a lot of that sort of thing.

Remember, if you ever have problems, it ain't nothing a maurading self righteous Matthew can't resolve! (except for the small problem of breeders being able to marry but not non breeders. stupid rule. its like when they had whites only clubhouses or men only bars or or something stupid like that. pah! however, one nice thing is we don't share taxes! )

Well, don't move to one of the states where we are legal! We have to file 4 income tax forms- one each for federal taxes, one joint for state taxes, and one more "fake" federal joint that gets filed for the state that calculates what we would pay if we filed federally joint. It gets expensive since the fake one has to be every bit as "real" as a real federal joint. That, and the medical that gets deducted if we are both on the same employer supplied health care gets expensive. They take that out of pre-tax dollars because it isn't deductable like for federally married couples. Thank goodness we both have our own insurance now! Immediate savings there.

 

[colowyo0809]

so, update
We are heading up to montana the 22nd and back home on the 25th. its a good 10-12 hour drive but we will do it anyways. they did a bone scan and a cat scan today, doing another scan and a brain scan on wednesday.
so, apparantly my partner got ahold of SS and posted how happy he was about making pear jam lol, this is what comes of leaving myself signed in to anything

 

[Blackbird]

Did you get those squashes cooked?
I cooked a scrumptious buttercup squash today and roasted the seeds.