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Recipes for your left over pumpkin mush

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 28 October, 2010 09:48

Being thoroughly Americanised by now after years of exposure to the greatest excesses of their culture, you’ll doubtless be carving a pumpkin this weekend – hopefully into one of these extreme pumpkin lanterns guaranteed to scare away the most obnoxious 10-year-old sweet bandits. But what to do with the goo inside? Here are five unusual pumpkin recipes to make sure all that orange goodness doesn’t go to waste.

Dead easy pumpkin cocktail
Pumpkin, vodka, orange juice, lemon. What could be simpler? For best effect, serve from carved out pumpkin shell, and use lots and lots of vodka.

Cute pumpkin muffins
What could be better for the morning after the Halloween party before? You wake, hungover and covered in a sticky red substance which may be make up, or may be real blood. There’s no way to tell. What you need for your banging headache and possible blood loss is something light, sugary, delicious, snacky but still filling. Thank god you planned ahead and made a batch of these muffins the day before.

Nigella’s pumpkin and seafood curry
Straightforward, delicious sounding Thai curry. Also a welcome rare outing for that bottle of Fish Sauce which has been three quarters full for the last 2 years. It’ll still be alright.

Pumpkin Fondue
Sometimes an idea comes along of such instinctive genius that just hearing the juxtaposition of the words involved sends a shiver of joy down the spine. Pumpkin fondue is one such idea. It’s fondue, but served in a pumpkin. It’s pumpkin fondue.

Pumpkin Pickle
Pickles and chutneys are way underrated, but Snipe is tipping them to be big in 2011 when no one has any money left. You heard it here first. All you’ll need to accompany this recipe is a hunk of cheese and your snack worries, (and be honest, which of us doesn’t have snack worries?) will be a thing of the past.

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