Hello pumpkin!

I thought I'd try something from our garden for dinner tonight. Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for butternut caramelized onion galette. A galette is an open top pie with the edges folded over.
https://smittenkitchen.com/2007/10/butternut-squash-and-caramelized-onion-galette/

We started with the mystery pumpkin. It stayed green a long time. The color finally turned to a dusty peach. I think we got 3 or 4 of these guys this year. The squirrels plant them. They take a lot longer than our season to ripen. We pick them green and ripen in the house.



I made a right royal mess, peeling the pumpkins. I used 2. They looked like it was time to use them. Unfortunately, the skin is really hard and thick at this point. It took a while and I have peelings everywhere. I cleaned up the seed and will make roasted pumpkin seeds out of them. I suspect this pumpkin comes from a bird seed mix. They grow randomly every year, depending on where the squirrels take a fancy to bury the seed.

I cubed the flesh and roasted it in olive oil and kosher salt. The oven heated up the kitchen a treat. Meanwhile, some dishes got done while I waited. I also picked leeks to mix in with the onions. This it what it will look like when its done:


And so I can find the recipe again, here is the recipe for the roasted pumpkin seeds. I think the original came from the Boy Scouts.