Economic worries? Put those Halloween pumpkins to good use!

Hello Friends

Well on election day this is perhaps not the best timing for me to have chosen: Sorry in advance. But then again, Halloween does not come every day, and neither does the opportunity to have a healthful and tasty five or six dinners costing about $5 for all of them combined!

Sound too good to be true? Hardly. Those pumpkins left over at the store just may be, literally, a golden opportunity knocking on the door. In fact, they may even be on clearance sale: Even cheaper than $3.50 apiece? Oh my god.  (Your jack-o-lanterns, presumably, are either molded through or else thrown out anyway).

If people say that the sugar pumpkins are the only good ones to eat, in my opinion they are wrong. Larger (not giant-sized) and medium-sized pumpkins can (in my practical experience) be good food for any of the below, and this is only a partial list:

Canning

Freezing

Curries with apples and onions

Baked with beer and cheese

Casseroles

Pies

Baked with honey, cinnamon, ginger and cloves

Soup made with a roux of chicken stock/flour and added chicken broth plus a dash of curry and, of course, the steamed/diced pumpkin

Seeds can be toasted and salted, or used to propagate new pumpkins: Hand them out as seeds of hope to your neighbors!

Pass a pumpkin or two or three on to your local soup kitchen tagged with a card, bearing a message of hope and plenty!

The list goes on and on: Use your imagination!

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