Pumpkin

I like pumpkins. I like selecting them. I like trying to lift as many as I can at one time to make me feel like Popeye. I like carving them. Mostly, I like to eat them. In pies, drinks, cakes, breads, muffins, soups, etc. This year, I decided to give making my own puree a shot. Here's what I did. Be impressed.

  

Step 1: Top off. The pumpkins top, though if you're feeling slightly warm, you can remove your own as well.

Step 2: Make your Mother-in-Law remove all of the stringy bits, aka the nasties. Then, scrape the insides of your pumpkin and separate out the meat from the seeds.

Step 3: Bag them and place them in the fridge, then go straight to Google because you are not sure what comes next.

Step 4: Per Goggle, place the meat on a foil covered baking sheet and cook at 350 degrees until it becomes what they called "fork tender." which means really soft. I think. 

Step 5: Look at it.

Step 6: Place your soft pumpkin stuff into a Food Processor that is straight from the 1950's.  Then, take this outside as your child is finally napping and NOTHING needs to ever change that. Line up your shot perfectly, like I did, with your husbands old riffle for added warmth and color.

Step 7: Come back inside and start bagging up your "way to go, you actually nailed it" puree into baggies, containing 1 cup each for easy measuring out later.

Step 8: Look at it. Be proud. Then place it in the freezer and google Pinterest recipes like I currently am doing as I have yet to sign up for that site out of some kind of weird spite that is really, really hard to explain. But it's definitely ok to lurk on it from time to time and get ideas.

(And yes, our pumpkin in the background was not so much carved this year as it was more-so drilled. I wanted to take it out back and shoot it repeatedly for this effect, but the drill idea won out. Looks pretty good at night, I must admit. And also, another yes, that artwork on the fridge from my son does indeed feature two little purple colored DeVore children. We have no announcements to make yet at this time, but his urging for a sibling is being received loud and clear.)