Is pumpkin pie nice? does anyone have a good recipe?

[virgiltracey]

We will have the flesh from two medium sized pumpkins to use up. I've never tasted pumpkin pie. What is it like?

[debka]

I made one last night to this recipe. It was simple to make and everyone enjoyed it. It wasn't very sweet though.

[Beamur]

I had it once in America and it was vile. Seems a shame not to use the flesh from a pumpkin though, so I wait with interest to see what other people think.

[WitchesBrewMakesItBetter]

Watching with interest as I promised to make North American refugees in my office a pumpkin pie for Monday but have never made, or eaten one before.

[canyou]

I will let you know I have one in the oven so will so a taste test in 30 min,

[virgiltracey]

Hmm. Doesn't look like somehting that will go down well in this house. I was imagining it to be more like an apple pie.

Any other pumpkin receipes anyone?

[parttimedomesticgoddess]

I would go to BBC Good Food page here and enter pumpkin as a search. There's soup, cake (think carrot cake) and curry, and that's just the first page. HTH x

[Prolesworth]

I love pumpkin pie :)

You can use pumpkin in place of squash in things like soup etc if you don't like the idea of pumpkin pie.

[debka]

I put the remainder of my cooked pumpkin in the lasagne I was making at the same time- no-one noticed!

[canyou]

Ok it is out of the oven and looks ok, smells like I put too much cinnamon into it.
Will try it with a up of tea but tbh not expecting much as I used a Tesco pumpkin

[ItsMeAndMyPumpkinNow]

Pumpkin pie is the food of the GODS!

Don't have family recipe to hand though, sorry. Basically it's a shortcrust pastry shell, filled with spiced pumpkin custard: about 3 cups of mashed pumpkin flesh to 1 cup of milk (unsweetened condensed milk v good), an egg or two, and lots of lovely cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. And sugar. It tastes a lot less good without the sugar.

[BehindLockNumberNine]

Is there a difference between the carving pumpkins you buy in Sainsbury and the eating ones they have in their vegetable section?

We bought two medium 'halloween pumpkins' (that is what it states on the label) for the dc to carve.

Will the flesh be edible?

Or can we only eat the flesh from smaller pumpkins found in the vegetable aisle?

[ItsMeAndMyPumpkinNow]

The flesh of carving pumpkins is edible but watery and tasteless.

If you are looking to cook with a pumpkin, get one with dark, dense flesh.

[YougreatPumpkinmousse]

this is the recipe I use and everyone loves it. We used a cup of carving pumpkin flesh and a cup of a smaller more orange squash flesh. it makes for a much richer flavour.

[canyou]

I am [hsad] it is ok but I expected it to be sweeter but DP has eaten half of one with vanilla custard so it maybe better then I think [hwink]
I used 3 cups pumpkin, 1 cup sugar, 1 and half tin evaporated milk, 4 eggs, all spice cinnamon, ginger, cloves in a pastry shell

[MindtheGappp]

Don't use fresh pumpkin flesh. It is horrible and stringy.

Use canned - you can get it in Waitrose.

[punkinpie]

I'm nice.

[YougreatPumpkinmousse]

Canyou - mine uses more sugar to less pumpkin.

Mind - I put mu pumpkin in a sieve to drain then wizz in the blender before I use it -No watery stringyness :)

[ItsMeAndMyPumpkinNow]

Fresh pumpkin flesh is tasty and easy to prepare if you just halve and seed your pumpkin, put the two halves face down on a sheet of tin foil, and roast in the oven until the skin blackens and peels off easily. The flesh will be mashable, and the flavour deeper and slightly caramelised.

[GetOrfMo1Land]

I am scared of pumpkins. You open them up, and they are all stringy and seedy, like something out of a horror film, like the Triffids.

I can't imagine wanting to eat something so sinister.

[ItsMeAndMyPumpkinNow]

mmmh, and you can wash and toast the seeds with salt and spices, and have a lovely bowl of beer nibbles.

Pumpkins are wonderful!

[SootySweepandSue]

When I lived in US I used canned pumpkin called Libby's. Works a treat.

[startail]

No, it looks amazing, but it's yucky and over sweet.

[Gigondas]

Pumpkin pie bit too sweet for my taste but pumpkin soup lovely- great recipe in Mary berry Xmas book for it

[WitchesBrewMakesItBetter]

So in summary should I use fresh or tinned? Can I buy tinned in a reasonably sized Sainsbury's? Colleagues are no use, Canadian one says use tinned, American says fresh [hconfused]

[WitchesBrewIsMyFriend]

OI! Thats MY name! dear sweet lord, I almost had a heart attack.