Pumpkin side dishes ?

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Any clever ways of serving canned pumpkin? It is such a nutrient dense low calorie veg and I like
to eat it several times per week. I just looked it up on the USDA website and it contains all the
amino acids plus so many vitamins, good fiber (2.7 Gm per 1/2 cup) for very few calories. Tonight I
served it with salt, pepper, equal sweetner and cut up raw apple for texture. I've mixed it with a
baked sweet potato and also with carrots and also frozen squash. The flavor is rather bland so I'm
looking for tasty ideas.

It's very good in/with curry IMO.

Naomi D.

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: Any clever ways of serving canned pumpkin? It is such a
nutrient dense
: low calorie veg and I like to eat it several times per week. I
just
: looked it up on the USDA website and it contains all the amino
acids
: plus so many vitamins, good fiber (2.7 Gm per 1/2 cup) for very
few
: calories. Tonight I served it with salt, pepper, equal sweetner
and
: cut up raw apple for texture. I've mixed it with a baked sweet
potato
: and also with carrots and also frozen squash. The flavor is
rather
: bland so I'm looking for tasty ideas.
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I recently made Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip cookies that tasted quite nice! They stayed kind of moist...
but really good.
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Any clever ways of serving canned pumpkin? It is such a nutrient dense low calorie veg and I like
to eat it several times per week. I just looked it up on the USDA website and it contains all the
amino acids plus so many vitamins, good fiber (2.7 Gm per 1/2 cup) for very few calories. Tonight
I served it with salt, pepper, equal sweetner and cut up raw apple for texture. I've mixed it with
a baked sweet potato and also with carrots and also frozen squash. The flavor is rather bland so
I'm looking for tasty ideas

Oh, yes. Pumpkin cheesecake, if you're so inclined - let me know.

However, my favorite is with cinnamon, splenda, nutmeg and cloves, warmed up, and served with a
little whipped cream. Oh, my.

You can also do a a sugar-free, crust-free pumpkin pie - just follow the directions on the back of
the can of pumpkin for a pie, but leave out the crust, and add splenda instead of sugar. It's
quite good.

Last but not least, I like it savory, with curry powder, garlic, and a little butter or olive oil,
baked through.

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Quoted message said:

Any clever ways of serving canned pumpkin? It is such a nutrient dense low calorie veg and I like
to eat it several times per week. I just looked it up on the USDA website and it contains all the
amino acids plus so many vitamins, good fiber (2.7 Gm per 1/2 cup) for very few calories. Tonight I
served it with salt, pepper, equal sweetner and cut up raw apple for texture. I've mixed it with a
baked sweet potato and also with carrots and also frozen squash. The flavor is rather bland so I'm
looking for tasty ideas.

Spice it up with nutmeg (fresh grated only, please), cinnamon, maybe even a smidgen of ground clove,
salt and freshly ground pepper

Buy some egg roll wrappers and make some ravioli. Serve with a brown butter sage sauce - yummy.
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On 19 Feb 2004 13:28:56 -0800, [email hidden] (trudiefrur)

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Any clever ways of serving canned pumpkin?

Google on

"canned pumpkin" recipe

for a flock of references. Here's one:

aliciasrecipes.compumpkin recipes.htmOpen ↗

('though my pop-up blocker dinged like a car alarm)

Looks like with canned pumpkin you're pretty much restricted to bread, muffins, pies, etc. There's
an Afghan recipe for fresh pumpkin I've had that is very good:

afghan-network.netrecipe34.htmlOpen ↗

For more reicpes than you could ever use, try:

pumpkinnook.comcookbook.htmOpen ↗

I have a black bean soup recipe that has pumpkin in it, and it's very good. Email me if you want it.

I had really good baked baby sugar pumpkin as a side (eaten like an acorn squash, with butter and
brown sugar and maple syrup inside). Only problem is, you have to make it when the sweet little
sugar pumpkins are peaking. Unless...someone out here knows how to get 'em year round? -j Half the
people you know are below average. -Steven Wright