Channeling My Inner Martha

I think most of you know that food does not come nearly as ready-made here as it does in America.  As a general rule, this really doesn't bother me.  I mostly cooked from scratch when we lived in the US anyway so it's really usually not a big deal. One thing I hadn't ever tried to do though was cook my own pumpkin.  I had been lazy and got people to send canned pumpkin in the mail.  Well, this year I decided it was time to hone my domestic skills and just get on with the pumpkin cooking.  I love using pumpkin, we can get them here all throughout fall and winter and they are cheap so I really have no excuse.  

So, I got some tips from my awesome mom-in-law, had Drew by me a pumpkin and got busy.  I am happy to say everything worked wonderfully and my batch of pumpkin muffins were a hit!

Here's how I did it, if any of you feel like honing your skills as well...

Yeah, pumpkins here look different than in the US but the taste is the same.  This one cost around $2.


I then cut the skinny part off, cut the fat part in half, scooped out all the guts and laid them on my silpat on top of a cookie sheet.  Doing it in a jelly roll pan or a broiler pan would be much better because then you wouldn't make a huge mess in your oven, but I don't have a pan like that that will fit in my tiny oven so I had to make do.


Roast at 350 degrees for around a hour.


Then all you have to do is scoop out the yummy goodness!  I divided mine into 1-cup portions then placed them on a silpat, froze them overnight and then put them in a ziplock bag.  I got seven cups out of this pumpkin.  Not bad for $2!

I did squeeze some water out when dividing them up but it wasn't too much.

I'm excited to have yummy pumpkin goodies all throughout the fall and winter!  It is a bit time-consuming but worth all the effort.