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Waaaayyyyy! Pumpkin is great! And squash in general. I made my signature pumpkin cupcakes already, and experimented with a pumpkin-sage risotto (soooo awesome) and toasted pumpkin seeds with smoked salt (also delicious). I'd love to try making pumpkin ice cream - I was always a big fan of pumpkin soft serve at TCBY when I was a kid. I like pumpkin pie but have never had a SPECTACULAR one. Heck I don't even think I've ever had a homemade one. I might have to do something about that.

I'm planning on making a pumpkin gingerbread (the actual bready kind) with my extra can of pumpkin. I doubt I'll get to it in time to lug it up to my family's for Thanksgiving but...oh well, more for me then! :D

I also didn't realize until this year that pumpkin and dark chocolate is an "unusual" pairing. My cupcakes always have ganache frosting and I've made phenomenal pumpkin chocolate chunk cookies on many occasions that everyone loved (and no one questioned). I think it's a perfect pairing but have uncovered a few people who are nearly militantly against it! So weird.

In the WAY camp here. I like it sweet in cheesecake, mousse and roll form but I don't have a lot of love for pumpkin pie. I love it savory -- simply roasted, in curried pumpkin soup or in gnocchi. I tried a sage-pumpkin gnocchi at a local Italian bistro this fall and really want to try to make it sometime . . .

Way! Warm pumpkin pie with whipped cream melting on top - I wait for it all year. Also, LOVE pumpkin cheesecake. Soooo good!

@mskitty203087~~Warning....this website is addictive. I had to leave for a long while and just came back. Stayed up way, way to late reading. Serious Eats Rocks!

@dhorst ~~ I've missed you, too! Jerzee enticed me back. Join us on FB pretty please with pumpkin mousse on top?

Another use for pumpkin....buy ay can of already prepared pumpkin pie filling, pour it into the llllittle hole of ay store bought angel food cake (a cook's best friend!), frrrrrost with ay super simple blueberry pie filling, then press corn nuts around the sides for ay pretty li'l decorative edge. Pop onto a pretty li'l pullllate and insert huge candles, but don't lllllight or you could set the cocktails on fire! This is my newest holiday super simple easy dessert for happy homemakers. Cocktail time lllllladies!

Pumpkin pie is a tradition on Thanksgiving. I have a great recipe, posted below. That said, I have decided not to make it this year. I like to change things up, and not make the same dishes year after year.

1 pie pastry
1–15 oz. can pumpkin filling
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup light cream
7 oz. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. table salt
2 tsp. finely grated fresh ginger root
1/4 tsp. ground cardamom
4 tbsp. dark rum

Equipment
pie weights, pennies, or 1 lb. dried beans
10” pie plate
10” pie edge shield

Position oven rack in middle position and preheat to 375°F.
Roll out the dough to 12” round. Line the pie plate with the pastry round, flute the edge with your fingers. Line the pastry with aluminum foil and fill with pie weights. Blind bake the crust for 8 min. Remove weights and foil, pierce the bottom of the crust several times with a fork, and continue baking 5 min. or until pastry is set and dry. Cool on a wire rack.

Mix remaining ingredients to make filling. Place pastry–lined pie plate on oven rack. Carefully pour filling into crust. Cover edge of pastry with pie shield. Bake @ 375°F. for 50 min., or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool pie on a wire rack for 2 hours before serving.
To serve, garnish with whipped cream.
Cover and refrigerate leftovers. Will keep 2–3 days in the refrigerator.

I LOVE Pumpkin. I always tell myself every year that I need to eat it more often through the Fall and not just for Thanksgiving.

Thanks Perk! : )

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Don't think I would.

I've read reports of missionaries/explorers in various places stating that the locals where they were posted/had travelled claimed to have eaten human flesh, and that it was delicious, but. . . you know, it was so common for many cultures (particulary Western ones) to consider others (particularly non-Western ones) to be completely lacking in either sense of humour or humanity, that the locals who allegedly reported this may have been pulling the missionaries'/explorers' legs, without the latter being aware of this.

My point is that there is no evidence we taste good (although most tastes are acquired), and there would be no way of knowing (without having actually having eaten human) that a synthetic product actually had the flavour and consistency of human (and I cannot imagine eating another human being, but then again, I've never been in the sort of situation where I'd need to make this decision). It also seems like the sort of thing Marilyn Manson would go for in a flash (especially if it were called, say, 'Pam', instead of 'SPAM') and make a big production of, which would make the entire act of eating human-like meat kind of embarrassing ;)

I wish one of you folks who is interested in trying human would contact me. Flightlinek (at) hotmail.com. Maybe we can work out some kind of arrangement.

Hi everybody!! First time here. Saw the pumpkin discussion and had to chime in. WAY!!! In a BIG WAY!! Just wait for this time of year and pumpkin spice latte and creamer. Hope we don't go to culinary hell for use of canned pumpkin but the quality is good and it's so much easier you have time and energy to make all things pumpkin. Gotta say pie is my fave!! Happy Thanksgiving!

I love it. I've stocked up on Whole Foods 99-cent puree cans! Lately I've been making some killer quesadillas with sauteed curried onion, spinach, and pumpkin. Yum!

I love Ben and Jerry's Pumpkin Cheesecake ice cream!! And pumpkin bread and pumpkin whoopie pies. But no so much pumpkin pie, I'll take squash pie instead.