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Get creative with pumpkin

Updated on October 24, 2012

Cooking with Pumpkin

Hardly anything goes to waste, even the roasted seeds make a healthy snack or  are pressed into delicious pumpkin seed oil
Hardly anything goes to waste, even the roasted seeds make a healthy snack or are pressed into delicious pumpkin seed oil | Source

Pumpkin is more than just food

Although fall signals the arrival of winter, I love the beautiful colours of the Indian Summer and eagerly await the arrival of pumpkins. They come in a variety of shapes and colours and if you live in a rural area, you may be lucky to come across a pumpkin exhibition like the one I saw many years ago in the Canadian Okanagan Valley. If you are a pumpkin lover like me, you will definitely appreciate the beautiful pictures of these amazing fruits. Yes, I'm not making this up, pumpkin is actually a fruit and not as generally believed, a vegetable.

Pumpkins are extremely versatile as a cooking ingredient and they can be integrated into just about any meal from breakfast to dinner. All you need to do is google “Pumpkin Recipes” and you will get about 58,200,000 results in 0.32 seconds - more than you could possibly cope with in a lifetime. So what are you waiting for, you better get cooking...

Nothing goes to waste and even the seeds are pressed into a delicate gourmet cooking oil with an extremely rich and nutty flavour. Roasted seeds offer a healthy snack solution or can be used as a crunchy garnish for salads or soups.

But the use of pumpkin is not only limited to cooking. I’ve seen some pretty creative examples which I would like to share with you.

And by the way, thanks to a reader I've found out that you can even make pumpkin cocktails - just google "Pumpkin Margarita Recipes" and you'll find enough ideas to keep you creative until at last Christmas.

Seasonal pumpkin sign

Shop sign in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Shop sign in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia | Source

Colourful pumpkin exhibition

Pumpkins come in so many different shapes and colours
Pumpkins come in so many different shapes and colours | Source
Farm stall, Okanagan Valley, BC
Farm stall, Okanagan Valley, BC | Source

Pumpkin people

Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia | Source
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia | Source

Pumpkin bird

Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia | Source

Pumpkin boat (only recommended for giant pumpkins)

Pumpkin Regatta, Windsor, Nova Scotia
Pumpkin Regatta, Windsor, Nova Scotia | Source
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Pumpkin people festival, Kentville, Nova Scotia | Source

Pumpkin Humour

Sign outside a shop (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)
Sign outside a shop (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia) | Source

Pumpkin books

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