I woke up this morning with pumpkins on my mind. It is still snowy out, as is evidenced by our strange blizzard last night. I don't know why I am craving a fall vegetable but I guess it is what it is and I don't have any preserved pumpkin left. In a matter of months, about 6, we will hopefully be bombarded by a crop of these fairy tale pumpkins. They are like something out of Cinderella which is probably why they have that name. In 6 months we will have as many toasted or candied seeds as we like, and we will bake pumpkin bread with chocolate chips, and preserve more this year so we don't run out like last year.
FYI, I was hoping to find some recipes for canned pumpkin butter. I always forget that pureed pumpkin is not supposed to be canned even in a pressure cooker. Bummer. I guess I will just continue to can the cubed pumpkin. Perhaps I will search for a pumpkin apple butter recipe that might be acceptable for canning. I will post if I discover one.
