Front Porch to Pie Plate

Mr. Mr. was the only one who did not carve his pumpkin for Halloween.  Soooo, we decided to make a pumpkin pie out of it.  I wasn't sure how to prepare the pumpkin for the pie so I did a little research.  I came to understand two ways to do it. Bake it in the oven or boil it. So we decided to do both.

Mr. Mr.'s Pumpkin

Slice Pumpkin in Half

Scoop out all of the seeds

All clean!

One half of the pumkin baked in the oven for 1 hour

One half of the pumpkin boiled for one hour

Scoop out baked pumpkin from the shell

We tried mashing it with a potato masher

but we were not very successful

It was too lumpy

We decided to puree it in the blender, much better.

We made two pies with the same recipe and
ingredients then poured into pie pan.

Baking the pie in the oven

This is the pie that the pumpkin was boiled

This was the pumpkin that the pie was baked.

Overall they both tasted good, however the pie that was from the pumpkin that was boiled had a more creamy and pumpkin flavor. Yum!

Here is the recipe that I used http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/mrs-siggs-fresh-pumpkin-pie/detail.aspx

If you have a lingering pumpkin left on your porch

 from halloween give it new life as a pie.