Gooseberry Patch PUMPKIN Recipe Round Up Blog Hop!

Wow!  I just found this awesome blog hop on the Gooseberry Patch Blog.

Link here: http://www.gooseberrypatch.typepad.com/blog/

Please feel free to add YOUR pumpkin recipes and you can also add this blog hop to your blog in a post to share all these great recipes with your blog friends.

I am sharing this wonderful BLOG HOP with everyone at:

 Deb's Farmgirl Friday Blog Hop

& 

Fall Harvest Blog Hop!

Thanks for visiting, I hope you stop by again. I like comments.

Homemade Pumpkin Puree, The Pioneer Woman Way...

This week I decided to take the plunge and bake, puree, and freeze bags of pumpkin puree for winter pies and cakes.  To do this, I followed the wonderful instructions of The Pioneer Woman, aka "Ree Drummond".  It was so much fun and was really easy to do.  Which is good because I have more pumpkins to puree.  Please click on the link above for her recipe and website, but here are a few of my pictures.

Also- on a side note, I cleaned the pumpkin seeds and soaked them in a 5% salt water brine for 24 hours, drained them, salted and placed them on a baking sheet at 375 degrees until they were crunchy and light golden brown (it took about 55 minutes because of the brine soak).  Yum!