Well, for our family anyway. I went with the pumpkin pie in the end - and we had pumpkin soup for tea yesterday. There's still more than half a pumpkin in the fridge - any suggestions for using it up very welcome! Double cream proved to be the problematic ingredient for the meal. Why is that, when every recipe for pumpkin pie seems to call for it? I ended up buying Devon Double Cream that had come all the way from England in two tiny bottles costing $4.89 each. So about five quid for 10 fluid ounces of cream. Don't Canadian cows produce cream? The nearest Canadian alternative was whipping cream which contained a load of unnecessary additional ingredients, and which probably would have separated when heated. Maybe nobody actually makes pumpkin pie here...The pumpkin soup was OK, and the pumpkin pie was fine, but I wouldn't go out of my way to make either again. Pumpkins look very jolly as decorations, and are obviously essential in that role for Hallowe'en, but I can't help feeling that the early settlers ate them because they had little choice. I don't often make puddings, so next year I think I'd rather have a lemon tart or something else that I'd really enjoy for Thanksgiving, rather than keeping to tradition with the pumpkin option.
Pumpkin update: the BBC reports that the UK pumpkin crop suffered due to the poor weather this year. Perhaps I should send Mike over with a suitcase-full to sell at a ridiculous profit when he takes his mum home later in the month...
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