Finally! . . . .

. . . . canned pumpkin is back on the store shelves. It's been almost a year since I've seen any; bad weather ruined the crops.

 

First thing i did last year when i heard that news was to go out and buy two cases.

Im glad its back though!

 

Great!

There was a bad shortage last season...I couldn't make pumpkin scones.

A crisis.

 

fresh cooked pumpkin freezes very well. we bought about 20 pumpkins last year, cooked em and froze em.

edit:we scooped them before freezing

 

I wasn't paying attention and didn't know there would be such a shortage. I had found a fantastic pumpkin cake recipe and searched high and low for the right sized pan (9" square). Finally found it, made the cake twice and . . . . boom, no more pumpkin.

Guess what I'm baking today?

 

OOOHH...both of you....care to share the recipes?

 

pumpkins got too much rain and rotted in the fields last year...shouldnt be a problem this year

 

Ya know del, ive never liked fresh pumpkin. Ive tried using the "sugar pie" pumpkins too and they just don't taste right to me.

 

Pumpkin? What is this pumpkin you speak of? Could you be talking about punkin? Cuz I loves me some punkin pie!!!

 

that's the very same one!