All you need is a crock pot.
All you do, is wash your pumpkin, put it in the crock pot with some water at the bottom, and cook it for about 6 hours.
Take a look at the results:
It may seem pointless to even bother with this when you can so easily buy pureed pumpkin in a can and call it a day. You can easily even find canned organic pumpkin. But let me just say this, my husband makes a pumpkin pie every year from scratch, he uses fresh pumpkin and it is by far the best pie we have ever had.
It really makes a difference!
Do you have a great way to cook a whole pumpkin? Or a pumpkin recipe you can share with us?
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When I was a kid, we made jackolanterns on Halloween day. put them out with a stick up light in them (the kind we used to use in closets with no electricity). then the next morning, we’d all put our jackolanterns in the oven in a 13×9 pan and cook them at 350 for about four hours. When they are falling apart, leaning over, etc. we’d take them out, let them cool off, then take the meaty part of the pumpkin out of the shell. Of course, we cleaned them out well before making the jackolantern so there were no stringy parts. And we didn’t use a candle, which I hear makes them bad for eating. We’d just use a big spoon and scrape the pumpkin out of the shell. put in freezer bags and toss in the freezer. I never thought to use a crockpot. (of course, they didn’t have crockpots when I was a kid.) in the middle ages. lol