Negative Space: pumpkins
- Cream of coconut jack-o-lantern soup
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If last year’s jack-o-lantern soup wasn’t gruesome enough, try mixing your pumpkin’s disgouged facial parts with coconut and ginger.
- Cream of Jack-o-Lantern soup
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Use the body parts of your hallowe’en pumpkin to make a tasty, if disconcerting, pumpkin soup.
- Pumpkin cornbread
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Pumpkin cornbread allows you to take your pumpkin leavings straight to the oven without any further preparation other than grating them.
- Pumpkin rarebit soup
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Pumpkin rarebit soup from Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest is a very nice way to use up those pumpkin parts after carving your pumpkin.
- Salted, roasted, pumpkin seeds
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As we continue our quest to use all of Jack’s body parts, it is time to progress to his innards. Here is a simple, delicious use for your Hallowe’en pumpkin’s seeds. Jack’s got guts, I’ll say that for him!
More Information
- A 375 Year Old French Recipe for Pumpkin Soup
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“This is one of the first recipes for pumpkin soup where we can be sure that the pumpkin they’re referring to is a new world pumpkin. This cookbook was written by François Pierre de la Varenne, who’s credited with leading the shift away from highly spiced medieval and renaissance foods into what we would call French haute cuisine.”
