Uncle Beefy, save the sweets for you and me ! It is in fact a rare occasion that I post a SAVORY recipe on this blog, haha! But these tips and that spaghetti squash recipe were just too good to pass up. Let me know if you try it !

Whew. i’ve opened up this page 3 times to leave a comment but only now am I finally free enough from distraction to write. I love this post! You’ve had some wonderful culinary experiences – I’m a bit jealous. Would love to take some classes here in Lux, but have yet to figure out how. I would have *loved* this class as squash is my fav fall vegetable. I haven’t had great success cooking it myself, but my mom and dad have some great squash dishes.

My dad makes butternut squash soup and serves it with blue cheese crumbles and roasted walnuts. This was what we used to eat on Christmas eve (after my sis turned vegetarian on us )

Spaghetti squash is near and dear to my heart. I’d forgotten about it until I read your post. I adore the way my mom prepares it – she simply tosses it with a bit of butter, seasons with salt and plenty of pepper and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese. It is the best stuff in the world!

My aunt was just visiting and somehow we got on the topic of Thanksgiving food. Each year she makes pumpkin puree just as you’ve described. She doesn’t even cut the rind (skin?) off. She just hacks up her jack-o-lantern into pieces, sticks it in boiling water, scrapes off the pulp and freezes in pie size containers. I’ve always been intimated by using a real pumpkin instead of a can. But that sounds so easy I’ll have to give it a try. She doesn’t even put the pulp through a food mill.

As for pumpkin pie – my childhood neighbor always uses 1/2 milk and 1/2 egg nog in her pumpkin pie. It adds such a nice flavor.

Hmmmm. Now I’m terribly hungry for squash. I love Danish, roasted in the oven, topped with a bit of butter and S & P. That’s it.

Ah, fall. Is it not the best eating season EVER??

Jack, thanks for the wonderful comment too ! Funny how our tastes evolve over the years, right. And wow, a link for the whole pumpkin booklet – that’s fantastic. On behalf of all of my readers – thank you ! Can’t wait to hear more of your pumpkin ideas.

Jen, happy Halloween to you too ! It’s definitely not a holiday celebrated here like we did back in the US. Where in September already, every store was loaded with candy and orange this and orange that. You really have to search for any sort of pumpkin/orange/ghost decoration anywhere here, I haven’t seen one. I miss seeing trick or treaters and houses with spooky decorations. What are you doing for the holiday?

…And me too, I love those twisted pumpkins – the weirder, the more fun. I think they simply grow that way, as bizarre as that sounds. I never cooked with those though – how on earth would you cut and peel them ?!

Leigh, great to hear from you, back in SF. Glad you enjoyed London, and good luck with the final decision of where you’ll go. In the meantime, make some homemade pumpkin pie, haha!

jkiel, I never did the broth thing either, but I certainly will from now on. The pumpkin seeds we tasted were tossed with olive oil, cayenne pepper and salt. You could really do any mix of spices. Great snack idea for sure.

For your readers who may want to try out some recipes…A pdf version of our Cooking with Pumpkins booklet can be downloaded for free at this link: http://www.laughinglemon.ch/upload/pumpkins.pdf