Roasting Pumpkin

Autumn is upon us, and the pumpkins are ripe. Instead of buying canned pumpkin purée, pick up a cooking (sugar) pumpkin. One pumpkin will be enough for two pumpkin pies or four loaves of pumpkin bread. Cooking pumpkin to purée is easy. I have boiled it and roasted it. Roasting pumpkin is my favorite method, and here is how it is done:

* Cut the pumpkin in half
* Remove the innards
* Set the cut sides down on parchment paper-lined cookie sheet
* Roast at 350* for approximately 30 minutes (it is cooked when you can easily drive in your knife)
* Let it cool
* Squeeze out the meat from the skin
* Mash

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