I went the entire weekend without making anything with pumpkin. So, today, I had to make up for lost time.
For our main course tonight, we had mashed pumpkin and potatoes. Yum. Seriously, yum. On the side were scrambled eggs - I thought we had some sausage in the freezer, but alas, I remembered that we ate them all up last week when the generator was on the fritz and they were defrosting in the freezer! So the eggs had to substitute in for tonight's protein. Of course, a little salad of tomoatoe, cucumber and green pepper rounded out the meal.
It was topped off with tonight's piece de resistance (which I hope you read with a great flourish of French chef-ery!) of chocolate pudding and bananas. The chocolate pudding, by the way, was thickened with a good dollop of ... you guessed it... pumpkin puree! It wasn't too bad - I mean, it tasted really good - a nice creamy chocolate pudding taste. But I don't think I put enough thickener in it. The recipe called for canned puree, but I used fresh pumpkin puree, which is probably quite a bit more liquidy than the canned stuff. So probably should have added more cornstarch to make it thicker. Anyway, it tasted good and was lovely poured over some sweet ripe bananas. And we could eat lots of it, because it was vegetable and fruit matter! Have I mentioned that it was yum!
I also found some really yummy sounding recipes on the Internet for stove-top custard (thanks for pointing some out to me, RK!), but some of them were a bit fussier than I had time for tonight. Perhaps tomorrow... as there's still plenty of pumpkin to go around!
For our main course tonight, we had mashed pumpkin and potatoes. Yum. Seriously, yum. On the side were scrambled eggs - I thought we had some sausage in the freezer, but alas, I remembered that we ate them all up last week when the generator was on the fritz and they were defrosting in the freezer! So the eggs had to substitute in for tonight's protein. Of course, a little salad of tomoatoe, cucumber and green pepper rounded out the meal.
It was topped off with tonight's piece de resistance (which I hope you read with a great flourish of French chef-ery!) of chocolate pudding and bananas. The chocolate pudding, by the way, was thickened with a good dollop of ... you guessed it... pumpkin puree! It wasn't too bad - I mean, it tasted really good - a nice creamy chocolate pudding taste. But I don't think I put enough thickener in it. The recipe called for canned puree, but I used fresh pumpkin puree, which is probably quite a bit more liquidy than the canned stuff. So probably should have added more cornstarch to make it thicker. Anyway, it tasted good and was lovely poured over some sweet ripe bananas. And we could eat lots of it, because it was vegetable and fruit matter! Have I mentioned that it was yum!
I also found some really yummy sounding recipes on the Internet for stove-top custard (thanks for pointing some out to me, RK!), but some of them were a bit fussier than I had time for tonight. Perhaps tomorrow... as there's still plenty of pumpkin to go around!
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