I managed to grow 90 Baby Bear pumpkins this summer, and now I have to eat them without getting exhausted with the taste. Further complicating things is that I'm pretty lazy when it comes to cooking, and especially when it comes to dishes. Thus far I've managed to:-Cut pumpkins into cubes and boil them in water with salt and minced meat. Works even better with pepper and some rice too, but rice/macaroni also means using up less pumpkin per meal.-Cutting pumpkin into thin slices and frying the slices with oil and salt. The slices have to be really thin for them to taste good though, so this uses very little pumpkin, produces very little food, and uses a ton of electricity.So, what recipes/methods can you recommend for making different tasting foods out of all these pumpkins? Now that I've managed to grow my own food, the worst thing to happen would be growing so tired of the taste I could never eat them again.
>>22240492Most pumpkins last longer than 120 days if you store them properly.
Roasting them cubed is my go-to, roast the seeds too.
Why wouldn't you sell the pumpkins?
>>22240517Apparently some last longer too, but 2-4 months is what Deepseek said as Baby Bear's storing time after two weeks of ripening and then some hardening.>>22240522I've been thinking of trying this, cutting a smaller pumpkin in half and putting it in air fryer. I've also heard of filling the pumpkin with some other stuff before roasting, but have no idea what to do to make it taste less like pumpkin cooked every other way.>>22240542That would be a lot of work, and most people wanting to buy pumpkins would get bigger ones from the store. I did give some as gifts, but there's still dozens left to eat myself.
>>22240492batch cook something that you can freeze. pumpkin soup, or pumpkin pie filling. I wouldn't force myself to eat it all right away.
Sounds like a fun excuse to learn home canning and later die of food poisoning.
Slice, coat with oil, sugar and cinnamon, then bake.
Pumkin:QuickbreadSoupCustardPieSoft top cookies with chocolate chip Pureed with roast garlic as a pasta saucePureed with rosemary and cream pasta saucePureed with fried sage and parmisean as a pasta sauceAs a filler and presentation upper sweetened under French toastAs a addition to bread puddingAs a pumpkin shakeBattered and fried after half cooking previously.
>>22240573Why bother asking /ck/? Just ask deepseek what to cook saar
>>22240492Looking to die in the toilet I see
>>22240492There's a good turn you'll turn slightly orange eating that much pumpkin. This is a little bit of an article about pumpkins from the food website Mashed >Dr. Nicole Avena, a research neuroscientist and nutrition consultant who authored the book "Why Diets Fail," confirmed the truth behind the rumor: yes, eating a lot of pumpkin really can make your skin turn orange. But how much is too much?>As Avena explains it, pumpkins can cause your skin to take on an orangey hue because they are loaded with the pigment known as beta carotene. Pumpkin isn't the only food that can turn your skin orange, since carrots and sweet potatoes are also loaded with the stuff. Eating a whole bunch of this nutrient "can cause a condition known as carotenemia, which is when your skin may start to turn orange due to the buildup of beta-carotene in your body,"Avena cautions."It's not common, as you need to eat about 20 to 50 mg of beta carotene a day for a few weeks to see a change in skin color, but it does happen!">As for how much pumpkin is too much, Avena says that you need to eat 20 mg of beta carotene a day for several weeks in order for your skin to take on the dreaded orange hue. This is the amount you'd get from eating approximately 1 ¼ cups of canned pumpkin. She does say, though, that the amount of pumpkin it takes to cause skin to change color can vary depending on the person, telling us "Those with lighter skin will see discoloration more easily." Thankfully, this effect isn't permanent. "You can slowly get your skin color back to normal in a few months," Avena says,you just need to dial back on the beta carotene consumption.
>>22240621Cook a deboned highly spiced chicken inside oneCook several highly spiced quail inside oneCook 2 whole press em together and imagine a busty ompa loompa. Assert yourself.Try a Jamaican pumpkin soupPumpkin ice creamPumpkin muffinsPumpkin bars
Save them for future use. Learn to can with Ball jars. Pumpkin (or anything pretty much) grows monotonous over weeks and months. Spread out your consumption.
>>22240582If home farming is this productive, I'll definitely have to get a new freezer at some point.>>22240619I have used olive oil while frying them on a pan. I wonder if they could be baked in an air fryer, and while I've never liked cinnamon, at least sugar tastes good.>>22240621>QuickbreadChemical bread sounds pretty unnerving, but I have a bread machine. I could try adding pumpkin mush to the mix, but is there some way to figure out if it would burn stuck to the walls of the container before actually trying it and learning it probably the hard way?>SoupI've done that a lot. Works great with apples and minced meat. Pic related is my today's meal.>CustardLooks like something to try. I've been thinking of mixing pumpkin with eggs on a frying pan, but that looks even better.>Pie and cookiesNice suggestions, although far beyond my effort level.>saucesThese seem like how to add small amounts of pumpkin to other foods for flavor, but what I need most is ways to consume massive amounts of pumpkin and make it taste like something else.>filler/presentation/addition to breadAgain, just need to make sure it's safe for the bread machine, and I'll have at least three varieties of pumpkin bread I can make.>pumpkin shakeThis sounds good. I'll definitely give it a try once I find a lid for my mixer.>Battered and friedI've been thinking of making something dry and covered with something else kind of food for a long time. Just have to figure out what that stuff on for example nuggets is.>>22240788AI doesn't understand flavors, and will confidently suggest ten different ways to arrive to the precise same flavor. Also, I'm getting suspicious whether it actually understands storing pumpkins either.>>22240802Thanks for the warning, that's one particular risk the AI never warned about. Apparently it shouldn't be permanent, so I guess it's safe to keep pushing the limit and cut back once I know what too much is.
>>22240492I'm having crown prince pumpkin roasted in the oven.
>>22240492I made a nice pumpkin stew yesterday. Full of flavor, and not overly pumpkinny.Basically I just made boeuf bourguignon and then added pumpkin, with a bit of vinegar, mustard and celery leaves to offset the sweetness.
>>22240492>So, what recipes/methods can you recommendpeel and slice into chunks and steam them in a pressure cooker. I steam my squash for 10 minutes with a natural pressure release. Then sprinkle them with aspartame and enjoy.I eat squash all the time. The best squash is buttercup squash. It is often dry and flaky like pie crust and has a rich flavor that the aspartame greatly enhances.refrigeration destroys raw squash so I'd process the whole pumpkin at once and leave the cooked leftovers in the fridge. Raw squash goes bad in the fridge because the enzymes are still active. cooking destroys the enzymes.
>>22241528This is what a buttercup squash looks like. supermarkets are selling them right now because they're in season. Peel them with a Y-peeler. the oxo y peeler is a good one. I use a flllet knife to cut out the belly part.
>>22241427I airfry usually, slices, but cubes also work.
>>22241427>If home farming is this productive, I'll definitely have to get a new freezer at some point.for sure, part of growing your own food is also learning to preserve that food. whether it's by freezing, canning, pickling, or drying. any decent harvest will produce more food than you can eat alone before it goes bad. and that's kind of the point, the autumn harvest is supposed to last you through winter and into spring.
>>22240848Pumpkin moussePumpkin closet winePumpkin hoochGet together with a pig farmer to feed their pig pumpkins in exchange for a comparible value hunk of pork In the future.Bait a feild to attract any meat bearing critter to cook. No gun? No arrow? Throw lightly cooked cubes in the water to net turtles turtle soup with pumkin side dish. Hook a peice to a fishing pole catch a fish.Candied pumkin slices
>>22240492I'd puree a bunch and freeze it. Maybe ferment some and make some homemade booze. Idk they're squash they last a long ass time I'm sure you'll figure it out
>>22240492Are you really going to try to eat 2 pounds of pumpkin a day for months?>>22241476Sounds like good soup
>>22240492Pumpkin Casserole1 Medium Pumpkin Scoop out seeds and save them for later.Bake PumpkinTake out soft stuff from shell.Put in a giant bowl.Add 1 pkg of saltines all smushed up to powder.Add an amount of shredded chedder equal (weight must be the same) to the amount of cooked pumpkin.Mix.Pour in half inch layers in caserole dish, topping each layer with additional chedder cheese.Bake in oven at 350°F until top cheese is browned.Take out and let cool (it cooks even more while doing so).Serve up and eat.
Yesterday's meal: Pumpkin in eggs. Simple and tasted good, but needs more tightly organized placement for the pieces in the future to fit a decent amount of pumpkin in.>>22241588That's extremely promising! I have been yearning for some drier food for a while, and being able to make it in an air fryer uses way less electricity than an oven. I'll try these after tomorrow when I'll be trying pumpkin with beans.>>22242259Wine is an excellent idea. I currently have a barrel of berry wine coming up already, so I'll try pumpkin wine once that's drunk.Sadly don't know animal farmers nearby, and hunting is illegal where I live. Didn't know fish ate pumpkin though.>>22242473>Are you really going to try to eat 2 pounds of pumpkin a day for months?Yes.>>22242601That sounds delicious, but does it really use as much cheese as pumpkin? That sounds extreme.
>>22240492Fry or bakeYou fucking dumbass
>>22244112Like I said, I've fried them as thin strips and with eggs.As for baking, my experience has been limited to loading the ingredients into a bread machine and turning it on. And even then learning the hard way that different flours have different thicknesses.And for today's meal, here's pumpkin pasta soup, made of pumpkin, minced meat, and fucilli. Spices are salt, chayenne pepper, and paprika powder.
Blend them and make pea/pumpkin/chicken/beet/onion/carrot/cabbage soup.They're mostly water anyway.
>>22244110Enjoy orange skin prison, child.
>>22240492>cut pumpkin>scoop out insides>stuff with pork and cider>cook in oveneasy enoughhttps://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/268930/chef-johns-pumpkin-braised-pork/
>>22244279The seeds get really soft when boiled? I’ve only ever had them roasted
As promised, here's pumpkin with beans, spiced with salt, chili, and black pepper. I also added 2dl of rice, because there was enough room for it between the larger pumpkin cubes.>>22244366I do have beets and frozen peas too, so I'll try cooking pumpkin with them the day after tomorrow's airfrying test.>>22244786Apparently it isn't permanent, so I'll cut down if I start turning orange. Better find where the limit is than to eat less pumpkin than possible.>>22245079A lot of recipes seem to use pumpkins as containers for other foods. Does the food inside really flavor the pumpkin so much it's not just a bowl of soup and a mostly normal pumpkin? Also, instructions often tell to oil the skin of the pumpkin before baking, so is the skin edible too?>>22245352Baby Bear has hulless seeds, so they have been edible just like that. It's a good thing too, because otherwise there would be much more scooping and processing to do than just peeling and slicing.
