Pumpkin 🎃

[nelsonic]

The pumpkin has been sitting on the windowsill since before 2️⃣ was born.

we were going to carve it up and make a Jack-o'-lantern Last year, but that plan fell through because we were too busy with a premature baby … 👶

What is the plan for the pumpkin now @iteles ?

[nelsonic]

Tried to weigh it on the basic kitchen scales:

got “Err”:

time to bring out the big guns: 💪

[nelsonic]

The Salter scale says it goes up to 10kg:

pumpkin is 5.34kg:

[nelsonic]

Which explains why “basic” kitchen scales, that go up to 5kg didn’t like the pumpkin 🎃…

[nelsonic]

@iteles can I open and chop-up the pumpkin into useful chunks? E.g: cubes that can be frozen and used in a variety of recipes?

[nelsonic]

Axsked @iteles via Signal:

if I don’t get a reply in the next 10mins I will proactively open the pumpkin and prepare it for freezing so that it can be used in recipes. ⏳

[iteles]

There's no plan for it! As you said, the plan was Halloween last year 😅

Yes, please open it up! I was thinking once it was open we should ask DT to carve it up so as not to waste time.

[nelsonic]

thanks for confirming the old plan is no longer in effect. 👌

Opened it:

looks good inside. 👌

going to try and roast the seeds.

“How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds”:

https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-roast-pumpkin-seeds/

[nelsonic]

Never wasting pumpkin seeds again!

These took less than 2mins to prepare then 12 mins to cook (obvs while I was doing other kitchen prep):

[nelsonic]

@iteles FYI: a couple of the seeds inside the pumpkin were already sprouting:

So I saved 22 of them for planting:

but the roasted ones are delicious:

I will try to save you a couple so you can taste them. 😋

[nelsonic]

Used some of the pumpkin to make a batch of @carolrmc’s sweetcorn soup: https://github.com/dwyl/health/issues/170

[nelsonic]

I chopped half the pumpkin into small cubes and put them in 2 large pyrex (IKEA glass) containers in the fridge. ❄️ The other half I left with the skin on. @iteles do you want to axsk DT to peal and chop it today? 💭