Bake a Pumpkin Recipe

FS is a scavenger through and through. So, during October, people often buy pumpkins to decorate with by carving them and making them into jack-o-lanterns like so:

Meanwhile, FS roams about the campus finding those unneeded pumpkins left out to die on a kitchenette table or on the floor of a kitchen or was used by the dining hall as a decoration. For FS would never use a pumpkin to decorate, when she could possible be eating it.

In dedication to Fall, below is a pumpkin recipe.

Baked Pumpkin

Pumpkin

Utensils: knife, aluminum foil

Optional: salt for pumpkin seeds 

Ready your aluminum foil

FS reuses aluminum foil. She uses it and then washes it with soap and water.

Ready your pumpkin by scrubbing the outside with soap and water.

Examine the visible water droplets coating the pumpkin.

Cut around the top of the rind.

Cut around the steam.

Cut in half.

Note: use a large, sharp knife for this.

Scrape out insides into a bowl. Save for later.

Place pumpkin halves face down so that the skin and rind faces you.

FS saved space at the top for another rack to bake pumpkin seeds on.

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour on the lower middle or middle rack.

FS is the kind of forgetful creature who remembers not the temperature settings of the things she makes. Ergo, take a picture of it!

Yay for pumpkin baking!

Meanwhile, sort the pumpkin insides for all the pumpkin seeds.

Wash pumpkin seeds.

FS's roommate in action. For love of food!

Spread across aluminum foil. Sprinkle salt all over. Bake on a top or bottom rack along with pumpkin for about 10-15 minutes. Remove. Cool. Enjoy.

Meanwhile, for the pumpkin itself. After baking, the skin is very soft and slides right off the pumpkin meat. FS is particularly judicious and will scrape off every bit of pumpkin flesh from the skin. Cooked pumpkin flesh is very soft and a little fibrous. FS then stored the cooked pumpkin in the freezer.

But, you may ask, what you will you do with it FS?

Which is where FS replies, Make pumpkin pie of course! Or pumpkin pie filling. FS is lazy so FS made up a recipe using banana for creaminess and sweetness, a little milk, and a dash (or many more dashes...) of cinnamon. FS also made pumpkin pancakes.