On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:50:38 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-12-29 11:18 a.m., wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2019-12-29 wrote:
>>>
>>>> My wife's sons had two giant pumpkins ot their front entrance as
>>>> decorations. They were going to trash them but my wife said she'd
>>>> take them for deer food. Yesterday I hacked up two forty pound
>>>> pumpkins and we tossed them out in the yard. This morning most was
>>>> gone but still some for tonight. Would have been a shame to toss them
>>>> in the trash when the critters could enjoy them... we saved some seeds
>>>> for planting.
>>
>> Since my wife spends Christmas with her sons and grands these were
>> Lung Guyland punkins... they hadn't had a hard frost yet so these were
>> in great condition. In fact they were difficult to cut up even with
>> my 12" carbon steel chef's knife. Iwas considering pies for a minute
>> but we can buy pies a lot easier. I always have a relaxing *quiet*
>> Christmas cat sitting. When the grands were small they wold visit for
>> a couple of days but now they are teens and get bored here, plus they
>> are noisy and messy.
>
> I wouldn't bother making pumpkin pie from scratch again. I did it
>once. I cleaned out the pumpkin, cut it into chunks, baked it scraped
>the flesh and put it in the food processor to puree. It tasted good but
>still had a stringy texture. I didn't mind but my wife was turned off by
>the texture. It is so much easier to open a can and avoid the complaints.

Canned pumpkin is excellent, it's actually butternut squash,