A pumpkin's not just for Halloween.....

[Poledra]

I want to whine - had decided to make lovely pumpkin risotto for tea tonight. Went to the two 'farm' shops near me and neither of them had any pumpkins or squashes. That was bad enough, but one of the assistants looked at me and said 'Halloween's been over for a couple of weeks, so we don't have any'. I'm sorry, I didn't want to carve it, I wanted to eat it - is this so difficult to understand?? Surely squash are an autumn vegetable? Now we're having pasta instead but I really wanted risotto [grumpy]

'I'm sorry I dont want to carve it, I want to eat is'

ROFFLE

pumkin is a new world product that has never really fitted into the old world.

this is want my friend from the US tells me.

yes i do find it unusual as everyone in australia eats them and you can get so many yummy varieties. its such an easy veg to grow and keeps forever.

and yes i do own a lady Flo pumpkin recipe book which I have used a lot.

We've had squashes and pumpkins in our Riverford vegbox for the last few weeks, when there hasn't been one, I've just ordered one from their extras list. They do butternut and crown prince squash, which has a lovely blue/green skin but bright orange flesh. Unfortunately supermarkets will only really stock them as 'novelty' items, even though they have a relatively long season. So forget them and get a vegbox, it's much more in tune with what's actually growing right now.