Leftover black bean and pumpkin soup (so yum!) and spinach and turkey roll ups.
And while we're at it, let's talk about pumpkins. Because it's fall and I'm talking about seasonal vegetables and pumpkin is the ultimate fall veggie. Pumpkins look like this
Okay, not really. One time my school teacher aunt asked her first graders to draw a fish and one of them drew a fish stick. No kidding.
Anyway, pumpkin is a vegetable (along with beans) that I will make an exception to my no-vegetables-in-a-can rule. And really, for no good reason, because like other hard winter squashes, you can easily cook it by cutting in half, roasting cut-side down, and then just scooping out the insides. But in a can is even faster and easier, and thankfully pumpkin's many nutrients are still mostly in tact when they come from Libby's instead of fresh from the patch.
Pumpkins are a super excellent source of beta carotene. In fact, one mashed cup of pumpkin offers you 245% of your daily recommended value of Vitamin A!
I am the only member of my family who will eat a pumpkin pie. This is traaaagic, because it means on Thanksgiving Day, I will have to eat a whole pie myself.
My non-recipes for pumpkin is that I basically just add it to everything this time of year. Pumpkin pancakes, muffins, cakes, breads, etc. I just make my normal recipes (for example, The Pancake, though just a plain ol' flour, sugar, milk, egg, butter, baking powder pancake will do) and then dump in some pumpkin puree. Little Henry ate three big pumpkin pancakes this morning!
Okay, not really. One time my school teacher aunt asked her first graders to draw a fish and one of them drew a fish stick. No kidding.
Anyway, pumpkin is a vegetable (along with beans) that I will make an exception to my no-vegetables-in-a-can rule. And really, for no good reason, because like other hard winter squashes, you can easily cook it by cutting in half, roasting cut-side down, and then just scooping out the insides. But in a can is even faster and easier, and thankfully pumpkin's many nutrients are still mostly in tact when they come from Libby's instead of fresh from the patch.
Pumpkins are a super excellent source of beta carotene. In fact, one mashed cup of pumpkin offers you 245% of your daily recommended value of Vitamin A!
I am the only member of my family who will eat a pumpkin pie. This is traaaagic, because it means on Thanksgiving Day, I will have to eat a whole pie myself.
My non-recipes for pumpkin is that I basically just add it to everything this time of year. Pumpkin pancakes, muffins, cakes, breads, etc. I just make my normal recipes (for example, The Pancake, though just a plain ol' flour, sugar, milk, egg, butter, baking powder pancake will do) and then dump in some pumpkin puree. Little Henry ate three big pumpkin pancakes this morning!
2 comments:
That adding pumpkin to everything - What a good idea!
I love pumpkin! I have pumpkin bread in the oven as I write this.
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