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Cut pumpkins into smaller pieces. Pumpkins can be composted whole, but they break down faster if you cut or smash them into smaller pieces. You can use a kitchen knife or cleaver to break your ...
Every Halloween, thousands of perfectly edible pumpkins are sacrificed to the carving gods, only to be dumped and forgotten once the trick-or-treaters leave. Chef Mike Davies thinks it’s a waste ...
How do you protect your pumpkin from bugs this Halloween? Kaleigh Werner asks experts the five best tips to make your pumpkin last
Kabocha is hard on the outside with knobbly-looking skin. It is shaped like a squat pumpkin and has a dull-finished, deep-green skin with some celadon-to-white stripes and an intense yellow-orange color on the inside. In many respects it is similar to buttercup squash, but without the characteristic protruding "cup" on the blossom (bottom) end.
3. Kroger. Crust: 6 out of 10. Filling: 5 out of 10. Size: 40 ounces. Price: $12. If you have a Kroger-owned grocery store near you, its pumpkin pie will do in a pinch, but homemade would be better.
The Cucurbita pepo group includes other pumpkins, winter squash, summer squash, acorns, and ornamental gourds. [2] It is a fruit which is sensitive to frost. The pumpkin plant has unisexual flowers and vines and large leaves. [3] The Connecticut field pumpkin is similar to winter squash, which was grown by Native Americans in the pre-Columbian era.
[13] [14] Pumpkin "pies" made by early American colonists were more likely to be a savory soup made and served in a pumpkin [15] than a sweet custard in a crust. Pumpkins were also stewed and made into ale by colonists. [4] An early appearance of a more modern, custard-like pumpkin pie was in American Cookery, a cookbook published in 1796. [16]
Per Britannica, pumpkin is technically a type of berry called a pepo, which is a fruit that has a hard outer layer and no dividing chambers. (And for the record, squash is also technically a fruit.)