Is it possible to cook pumpkin for pumpkin pie with out cutting it in half and cooking it with the skin? Because intead of destroying the pumpkin I want to make a Jack-O-Lantern, make it into a pumkin pie, then make pumpkin seeds with the seeds.
Is it possible to cook pumpkin for pumpkin pie with out cutting it in half and cooking it with the skin? Because intead of destroying the pumpkin I want to make a Jack-O-Lantern, make it into a pumkin pie, then make pumpkin seeds with the seeds. Even if it is hard to cook the pumkin without cutting it in half is it still possible?

Best reply by Michele:

Get a separate pumpkin for your jack o’lantern.

First of all, the pumpkin you get for pies is a “pie pumpkin” (small baking pumpkins)…they are different than the big huge pumpkins you see sitting outside the grocery store to carve as jack o’lanterns (those are not tasty and make poor pumpkin pies).

You CAN bake the seeds from either pumpkin, however (and from acorn squash too, if you ever desire to!)

As for baking the pumpkin…the easiest way is to cut it in half, seed it and bake it. It would be very hard to scrape out the raw flesh and bake it without the skin.

You can get cheap pumpkins closer to Halloween and at Farmers Markets.

I hope this helps!

EDIT:

The answer I guess you are looking for is that if you were to buy a pie pumpkin and turn it into a jack o’lantern, can you then bake it off as a pie? I wouldn’t…after leaving a pumpkin out with a candle in it, I wouldn’t cook it. You want to bake a fresh pumpkin, not one whose flesh has been exposed to the air for a day or two. You can’t get the fresh flesh out to bake when it is raw and you have carved it for a jack o’ lantern either. So, the answer is no.

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Is it possible to cook pumpkin for pumpkin pie with out cutting it in half and cooking it with the skin?

it’s like… not only do i not really know how to cook… i feel like the planning and shopping is hard to figure out / balance out too. and finding time for it all.
how did you guys start out cooking/menu planning?

Best reply by dragonrider707:

KIS…Keep it simple. It depends on how many you are cooking for but start out by going to a cooking site and finding some easy recipes. Find 7 of them…one for each day and write the ingredients on a piece of paper and use it as a shopping list for your weeks groceries. Make sure you dont double up on things…if one recipe uses 2 eggs and another uses 1 and another uses 4 dont go buying 3 dozen eggs. Just buy 1 dozen and use what you need. Once you learn how to make a few meals this way you can start to modify the recipes by adding or taking away things you like or dislike. For example if you are making a stew you might like to add mushrooms but you might not like carrots very much so you can leave them out. After a while you build up a repertoire of things you can cook and it’s not so hard to figure out what to buy at the supermarket because it is all in your head.

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For a beginning cook, why does cooking and meal / menu planning seem like such a daunting task?

heyyya i want to start cooking for my family. I was looking for good websites that have great websites. I already know about bettycrocker.com so don’t tell me about that website. And good books i meanrally good books nawt those little ones that are really hard to understand. please and thank you

Best reply by Robert S:

There are lots of recipe web-sites, do a search.
Yahoo Lifestyle has a cooking series “Cheap & Easy”
You could also watch the Food Network for technique.

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