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.

This version is literally a sticker from a Tesco's pumpkin - a long time ago. I make it most years.

Should say that I make the soup on the 30th Oct when we carve the pumpkins though. Once you get rid of the stringy stuff (a stick blender is good for this) scoop out as much flesh as you can before carving. It helps the light to shine through the skin.

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Just to add to my pp, I’d never buy an ‘eating’ pumpkin anyway - IMO they’re pretty tasteless ‘fillers’ and need a lot of flavouring to perk them up.

Made some soup today with about 400g pumpkin, two parsnips, three carrots, onions, chili, cumin seeds and turmeric, blended. It is quite nice, good colour too.

I don’t really have one - just chunks of pumpkin simmered in as little water as possible (to allow for coconut milk later) with plenty of previously sweated chopped onions, a couple of chicken or veg stock cubes, a couple of cloves of crushed garlic, plus a good teaspoon or so of red chilli and ginger pastes (if I don’t have the fresh equivalents, which is most of the time. I usually use the Asda jars.)

When the pumpkin’s really soft, blitz with stick blender in the pan, taste and adjust seasoning/spices, add the ‘cream’ part of coconut milk, or the cream from a pack.