Does anyone else make Pumpkin soup on 1st November?

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Waste not want not, so I peel and cut up my (sole) pumpkin, simmer with sweated onion and garlic, add ginger and red chilli, a chicken stock cube or two, blitz with stick blender in the pan when pumpkin is soft, add coconut milk. Delish!

A bit of swede, potato, or a lonely parsnip that needs using up can always be chucked in.

I thought the pumpkins for Halloween were not grown to be eaten?

I make pie with ours :)

Delia does a good pumpkin soup with toasted sweetcorn on top . I bloody love seasonal food , and really enjoying chestnuts and things like walnuts right in season .

Not sure if it's the same everywhere but we only carve carving pumpkins which are basically just rind and seeds, not much flesh to enjoy. A friend tried to make pie out of the rinds a couple of years ago and it tasted of absolutely nothing.

I don't like the taste of pumpkin, so we feed ours to the chickens. I like eggs 😀

Made pumpkin soup with half and then diced the other half into chunks and froze. Will add them to Xmas day roasted veggies 🎃🎅

I've got some pumpkin in the slow cooker right now. I've added carrots, an onion, a couple of carrots and veggie stock cubes.

Hopefully the added ingredients will boost the flavour as pumpkin on its own is a bit bland.

I may add some coconut milk too. I've seen that suggested a few times now so may give that a go.

I once had pumpkin and peanut soup in a restaurant. I think it was Mexican. It was delicious but I've never been able to replicate it at home.

Half of one carving pumpkin? I'm struggling to understand how there could be enough of either soup or frozen chunks to be worth their salt. There's hardly any flesh on them!

I don't do pumpkin carving anymore (haven't since the children were small), but I always have plenty of squashes and pumpkins delivered at this time of year as I love cooking with them. I roast them, make soups and curries, cook more refined dishes as well, and this year I'm going to try something new - pasta with squash!

You can get a lot of edible flesh (several lbs) from a big pumpkin. We do ours and make soup for bonfire night.

I toast the seeds then either make soup or muffins with the guts and any flesh. I love cooking with pumpkins otherwise it's such a waste.

We had one about the size of a basketball, I carved/scraped as much flesh as I could get out last night. It was at least an inch thick all round.
I've frozen it for now and will make soup out of most of it, and either mash or add more vegetables for more soup with the rest.

I made our first round of pumpkin soup a week ago and made some more this weekend. Most normal pumpkins, like you'd get at a supermarket, are fine for eating. The really massive ones grown for size are not really edible, but it will be obvious when you open it up. We grow a pumpkin patch every year of just bog standard pumpkins, carve some and use the rest for food. If the flesh looks like butternut squash, it's perfectly good for roasting, sauces, soups, pie, etc.

I've just carved a pumpkin and have about a cereal bowl-full of chopped pumpkin flesh. Not enough to make soup with according to these recipes that demand a kilo! Was going to make soup tomorrow anyway, any ideas of what else I can add to it? Want it vegetarian/vegan.

Any of your root veg would work just fine to bulk it out.

Was thinking carrots, onion, red pepper? Would you put spices or ginger root in it? Don't think I've ever made pumpkin soup before.

Yes,all your ingredients plus a teaspoon of chilli,parsnip and carrots.

Yes I would definitely spice it up nicely!

I've never seen a carving pumpkin? I just buy the ones from the supermarket, they've always had lots of flesh.

I scrape out as much as I can, and any bits I chop out when carving, and roast it in chunks. Then turn it into soup or stock, if I make stock it's good for making risotto.

I throw away the actual carved outside though, it's always no good after it's had a candle in it all evening, half cooked and a bit manky.

I bought one for 10p in Sainsbo on 1/11 one year, & as others have said they're not meant to be eaten.

Wasted a lot of time & effort , then threw the soup away.

For those worried about the "waste" just put them in your compost. Not wasted then. They're better than all the plastic shite at xmas!

I know they say the carving ones are not supposed to be eaten, but I really don’t see why not - there’s plenty of flesh on them and my pumpkin soup is very tasty.

No, I make it before Halloween. (Also curry rather than soup and use it in other dishes.

I cut out as much flesh as possible and then carve a lot out so there's even more to use and roast the seeds.

Not with nasty supermarket carving pumpkins though.

I also do this with other gourds and root veg.

I don't want waxy, left out shrivelley half a week old veg in my soup

I suspect you're probably a bit cleaner and efficient than me. I wouldn't fancy ours today.

Please share your recipe!