Anyway, I saw an ad on TV for big orange pumpkins and so when we went grocery shopping this week I picked one up. I can't remember how much they are at home - especially since a lot of my pumpkin buying was done in Inuvik where things like that are notoriously expensive. These pumpkins were $26/ea which is not too bad since I'm actually going to be cooking it not carving it/throwing it away (even though I wanted to carve it SO bad when I was cutting it! It felt weird to cut it in half instead of cutting the top bit off to scoop the insides out that way).
So my plan for today is to roast up this pumpkin (it's bigger than it looks in the picture - half of one cut in threes barely fits on our cookie sheet), blend it and freeze it in 1 or 2 cup portions to save for pies and other yummy things.
Another bonus in finally finding a pumpkin?
The seeds! yum! (I might have to go buy another pumpkin this week before they disappear again!)
Temperature: +12C
Sunrise: 6:24am
Sunset: 7:46pm
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I had to check the currency conversion - I hadn't realized the US and AUS dollars were nearly on par. Don't throw something over the ocean at me when I say we paid $6 for our pumpkin yesterday...
Yeah it's the big news story over here (it's great for us sending money home!)
Wow! $6 is cheap! I figured $26 was expensive but oh well. I think pumpkins in Inuvik were like $50 each :-/
You got one, that's the important part! It might have been imported too, they wouldn't have ripened yet there would they? They ripen in the USA in Sept. Early fall.
That is an excellent pumpkin. Well worth the price.
I'm pretty sure they were Australian. I wonder if I kept the sticker...
It was an excellent pumpkin! It made enough cooked pumpkin for TWELVE pies! I made two last weekend :-D yum. Definitely worth the investment to have all that pumpkin squirreled away in the freezer for the year. It's only sort of a shame that Glen and his family don't like pumpkin pie ;-)
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