Crafty? Who me?

I am not so crafty, but there are some things that I have done and I am pretty proud of, so I am going to occasionally post some tutorials for the benefit of my lovely audience. (hehehe)

SO, in October we went to a pumpkin patch and we got a lot of pumpkins. A few were for decoration but two big ones were for consumption. The last few years I have become fond of pumpkin cookies and pumpkin rolls but those cans of pumpkin are so expensive, especially around the holidays, so I made my own from a pumpkin...image that.

Here you are...HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PUMPKIN GUTS...

#1...Aquire a pumpkin. (We like cheap pumpkin patches.)

#2...Cut pumpkin into large chunks and spoon out any seeds and stringy stuff. Place on cookie sheet.

#3...Place in oven, cook at 325 for a while...until you can make an indent in the crust with your finger. I think it was at least 20 minutes if you only have one cookie sheet in at a time.

#4...Remove from oven. Place on clean dish cloth to cool.

#5...Once it's cool, cut off the crust. Then cut the pumpkin into piece small enough for your food processor or blender. Blend.

#6...Measure your pumpkin guts.

#7...Here is my load. It doesn't look as magnificent in the photo as it really was. I cooked 2 large pumpkins and got over 30 cups of pumpkin guts. You can keep this in your freezer for at least a year.

Next year I am going to can pumpkin. I wanted to do it this year, but found out that you can't can pumpkin guts but you CAN can pumpkin cubes.