According to one of my cookbooks, Kent or jap pumpkins grow to between 1 and 2 kilograms in weight. Yet this pumpkin, which we picked on Thursday, weighed well over 5 kilos (close to 11 pounds).
As is so often the case, the pumpkin vine was a 'volunteer'. It grew out of the worm castings I spread around our new plum tree not long after it was planted last winter. Naturally, none of the pumpkin seeds I intentionally planted have been so fruitful.
So far about half the pumpkin has been used, transformed into an enormous pot of pumpkin soup. Some will be roasted to accompany tomorrow's roast chicken.
And the rest? I haven't decided, but am thinking perhaps a pumpkin pie or pumpkin scones or spiced pumpkin and raisin cookies.
What is your favourite way to eat pumpkin?
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