Min, pumpkins have so many varieties, maybe you just need to find a different one? I grew up on Queensland Blue, but as soon as I tasted Butternut (which we call a pumpkin here) I never ate it again. My other favourite is what we call Jap - hmm just looked it up and it is a squash too: a Japanese squash called kabocha. Maybe I am with you, and don't like pumpkins!

Edit: But PS here is a run down of so many types! http://www.allaboutpumpkins.com/varieties.html 

Last edited by JoyYamDaisy (Wed 26 Sep 12 12:42am)

In autumn and winter I like to cook pumpkin and porro cream!

My memory is a sieve Frizz, but I think I gasped at the price a couple of weeks ago. I bet all this water means they haven't been able to keep well. Just found my docket from yesterday: Jap at $3.59 a kilo (I bought a piece without checking the price - oops!). That is expensive! I'll eat my pumpkin risotto with due reverence!

Porro is a vegetable, sweeter than a onion, is long,white inside and green outside. I think in english is leek.
I cook the cream in this way: in a saucepan I put oil. After one minute add sliced leeks and I cook for 5 minuts. Then I ampdd sliced pumpkin and I add water. It must be cooked untill the vegetables are soft. I add salt and pepper and than cream.
Now I whip and I cook for 10 minutes. At the end if you want you can add extravergin oil and parmesan.
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