This has been the *Summer of the Garden*
You all.. it grew crazy - and I traded a few zucchini for PUMPKINS!!
This is my first time ever trying to make Pumpkin Puree. I use pumpkin a lot - in Stews, Chilis and... IN PIE!!!
I asked my neighbors how to do it - and!! I did it!!
I even saved the pumpkin seeds.. more on that later!
I let them cool about 10 minutes and peeled away the skin.
One was easy, the other.... it made me work for it!!!
I had a few little burnt pieces, so I did not use those.
I placed the pumpkin pieces in a bowl that I could use my Hand Immersion Blender in . ( affiliate link)
I learned (on accident) that you don't want to use the immersion blenders in a metal pan.... it scraped the non stick finish ( sigh)
Then I blended, and blended - and really - it wasn't that hard...
See???? it wasn't hard at all!!!
Then!!! I had all of this!!
I started to look at Pumpkin pie recipes and they say you need 2 cups per pie - I was going to store them in Ziploc bags... but I got a wild hair!!
Look what I found!!
You just put the pumpkin in these cubes - they are 2 CUP Cubes!!
I am so ready - you freeze them and pop them out , then put them in the bag. SO much easier when it comes time to defrost. I won't have to squeeze the bags!!
And they are pre measured - so you don't need to dirty a measuring cup as well!! WIN WIN!!!
I am so excited!!! So excited in fact, that I have 6 more pumpkins to do - and we will have food all year. Okay - maybe not all year, but heck fire!! We will have variety in our veggies!!
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