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- Cait Johnson
- February 7, 2001
- 8:20 pm
- 12 comments
There’s almost always some pumpkin left over after you’ve made the pie. Here are some great ideas for keeping that mineral and vitamin-rich antioxidant goodness from going to waste.
Creamy texture, earthy taste, and good nutrition that you and your kids will love! Creative ways to use up that pumpkin:
1. Add 1/2 cup cooked or canned pumpkin to the cooking water for rice, millet, or quinoa.
2. Add some cooked or canned pumpkin to white sauces: they will turn a beautiful color.
3. The flavor and nutrition of soups, stews, broths, and pasta sauces will all benefit from adding 1/2 cup or more pumpkin.
4. Combine pumpkin with any or all of the following for a super sandwich spread or icing for muffins, toast, bread, cakes, or fruit breads. (Use more cream cheese to stiffen if you’re making icing rather than sandwich spread): cream cheese; maple syrup , honey or brown sugar; applesauce; allspice, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, ginger.
5. Pumpkin may also be mixed with any of the following to make great open-faced sandwiches: grated cheese; mashed cooked beans; chopped dried figs, raisins, cherries, or cranberries; chopped nuts; toasted pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.
Read more: Food, All recipes, Entrees
By Cait Johnson, Assistant producer, Care2 Healthy Living Channels.
Cait Johnson
Cait Johnson, MFA, is the author of six books, including Earth, Water, Fire, and Air: Essential Ways of Connecting to Spirit, Witch in the Kitchen, Celebrating the Great Mother and Tarot Games. She has been a counselor for more than 20 years, and teaches workshops on seasonal elemental approaches to self-healing, conscious eating, and soul-nurturing creativity.
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I love pumkin. Do you have some pumkin cake recipe?
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Yummy! Thanks for the recipe.
Yum! I'll give this a try. Who knew?
Winter squash can substitute for pumpkin in most recipes.
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I love pumpkin, but due to allergies would need to use soy or other cream cheese substitutes - has anyone tried using them like this for icing?
Love these ideas, thanks!
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