{"id":338,"date":"2010-10-27T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-07-19T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T19:41:56","slug":"wondering-what-to-do-with-your-pumpkin-flesh-here-are-two-recipes-for-pumpkin-rice-or-pumpkin-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/wondering-what-to-do-with-your-pumpkin-flesh-here-are-two-recipes-for-pumpkin-rice-or-pumpkin-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Rice and Pumpkin Soup Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s that time of year when we’re all scooping out the flesh of our juicy pumpkins and wondering what to do with them. Here’s a couple of our favourite recipe\u00a0ideas…..<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Like many of you I have a bookshelf full of cookbooks. I love cookbooks.\u00a0 A good cook book is my ideal Christmas present.\u00a0 I can curl up by the fire on Christmas day whilst the Children are watching a movie and lose myself in a book full of delicious sounding foods.<\/span><\/p>\n I especially like the books with a bit of a story to tell. Explanations on basic techniques for example, or in the case of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Everyday book<\/a>, learning lost techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n A couple of times, when I’ve been\u00a0feeling a bit cheeky, I buy my hubby a cook book too (which is a bit like buying myself an unofficial present.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The first time I wasn’t sure of the reaction but as he’s a big fan of\u00a0Rivercottage<\/a> I took the risk\u00a0and bought him the Everyday cookbook mentioned above.\u00a0 To my slight surprise he absolutely loved it – told his friends about it (it seems that men don’t just talk about football!), and\u00a0loves choosing\u00a0and cooking recipes from it. One of his top 5 recipes of all time\u00a0comes from this book – Beef with Soy Sauce and Ginger, and some of our friends that he’s cooked it for loved it\u00a0too!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, instead of the noodles recommended with this dish, he tried out another recipe from the second cook book I bought him:\u00a0Pumpkin Rice from\u00a0Caribbean Food Made Easy by Levi Roots<\/a>.\u00a0 This is\u00a0a great alternative to\u00a0the usual soups and roasting methods we’ve used in the past for\u00a0the pumpkin flesh as the flavours are very delicate. This is the recipe as written by Levi in his book.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n