The ugly, retarded pumpkin

[threemeninaboat]

I found an odd heirloom pumpkin. He only developed one side, the other was flat, about the size of a normal pie pumpkin (~5 cups chopped). He was pinkey brown tan with shades of pea green. I bought him because he looked so odd. Today, I noticed he began to get mottled brown spots, like an old man. Time to eat him.

I sliced him open and he smelled like a musk melon, the sugars oozed out his slices. The sweetest pumpkin I've ever smelled. The pulp was dark red-orange, but the flesh was very soft and a pinky yellow.

He's going into a pumpkin apple curry soup, and I'm freezing the other half. It smells amazing.

His developed side had some great seeds, so I'm saving them to plant in the spring.

You did good little guy. I hope your children grow just as strange and sweet.

......

Here's a neat website about rare pumpkins:
http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Squash-Winter

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

That was some very, very, very good soup.

[petrona.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of pumpkin apple curry soup. Is that a Colorado thing?

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

Nope.
Pumpkin soup is a pretty international thing. (as are pumpkins) There are types of pumpkins in Africa and Asian and many other places.

Mine went something like

1/4 onion
2 c chopped pumpkin
1 clove garlic
1t salt
Sautee in 1/4c butter and 3T EVO until carmelized
Add 1T curry powder, cook 1 m
Add 2 medium sized peeled and chopped apples
cook 5 m
Add 4c chicken stock
Add 4 oz coconut cream
Cook till mushey.
Mash. (or blender, but I didn't want to use another instrument)
Add 1 cup heavy whipping cream.
Serve.

[petrona.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin soup I know. My mom used to make it a lot. It's the other ingredients that I found surprising. So many flavors in one soup. It's got to be pretty incredible tasting.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, you peel the pumpkin.

Some pumpkins are easily peeled with a potato peeler, but this one was so lumpy I used my cleaver.

But I use my cleaver for most knife-work

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

and defrosting the freezer, and assailing coconuts, and chopping down big weeds and extracting the eyes from sheep heads...

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I used a rock pick for the coconut.

[gows.livejournal.com]

Wow . . . that sounds amazing. Were I not in such a sluggish mood, I definitely would have come over for some.

(Save me some seeds? she asked, hopefully.)

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I'll start all three plants (in january) and see what we get!