[CH] another pumpkin
Mary McGee Wood (mary@cs.man.ac.uk)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:14:41 GMT
Don't forget pumpkin is excellent in many savoury recipes, including
chillies. Here is my favourite dinner party main course:
One whole pumpkin, 8 or 9 inches in diameter
One big pot of red bean stew - tomatoes, red beans, corn, onions, etc.
well flavoured with garlic, chiles, and red wine, not too sloppy
Carefully cut a "lid" out of the top of the pumpkin, keeping the knife
angled or horizontal so the lid will stay on later. Scoop out the seeds
and fibrous stuff leaving all the flesh (as if you were making a jack
o'lantern). Stand the pumpkin in a lightly oiled baking dish, one which
looks good enough to bring it to the table in, and spoon the stew into it
(it should be full up to the top). Put the lid back on. Bake it in a slow
oven for an hour or more - you want the flesh to cook through but the
sides not to collapse. Bring it to the table and serve with a large sharp-
edged serving spoon, cutting some of the pumpkin flesh off the sides
with each spoonfull of the stew. Serve with jacket potatoes and a good
dark green winter leaf veg like curly kale.
Mary
(between Manchester and the Peak District)