Halloween Pumpkins.

[sandyRoe]

I saw some mums with their children buying pumpkins in Tescos today. Apart from making lanterns what are they used for?

[janbee]

Don't like marshmallows. It's like eating a pillow stuffing.

[jennyjoan]

Sandy ironically we had pumpkin soup with a dash of curry oil? yesterday in Grace Neill's Donaghadee yesterday. Really nice but nothing beats a bowl of home made vegetable soup with stepped/boiled peas (mmmm).

Do have a bag in my freezer which I will give to my visitor maybe tomorrow as we have eaten/ate at the Titanic.

[sandyRoe]

Jennyjoan, when things were going well we'd have a boiling chicken in the soup. Not so well, it would have been a bit of shin.

[jennyjoan]

Oh Yes Sandy - mother used shin too but never thought there was much taste from it.

[janbee]

Yes it was either a flank of mutton or shin bone as stock for the soup.

[BlackadderV]

Not a whole chicken, surely. A carcase, yes, with loads of meat on it.

[ummmm]

I really like pumpkin. Soup, curry, roasted. Lovely.

[sandyRoe]

And you couldn't make soup without 'soup mixture'. It was mostly barley with a few split peas and lentils.

[janbee]

split peas, peas , lentils and pearl barley (or Pearl Bailey as my Dad ALWAYS said and thought he was funny EVERY time!)

[janbee]

It was broth mix wasn't it?

[sandyRoe]

Iw was a whole chicken. They weren't very big but the soup would do for two or three days. It would be bulked out with boiled spuds.

[sandyRoe]

That's it, broth mix. I'd forgotten the name of it.

[Tuvok]

In Scotland it should be neaps not pumpkins

[chaptazbru2]

I had pumpkin pie once, I thought it was slimey !

[atalanta]

I love roasted pumpkin, but it is a bit fattening. Don't use the orange ones - get a chunk of green one, peel it thickly, cut into cubes and roast like parsnips. Use dripping if you can. They taste a bit like parsnips, too. Yum.

[B00]

Useless fact for you...

Pumpkin Pie is my cat's pedigree name :-)

[sandyRoe]

If it's a Pedigree you should have called it Chum ☺

pedigree chum, geddit?