Comments on: HOWTO bake porridge in a pumpkin

By: RedSun

RedSun — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pumpkins may very well be the duct tape of vegetables. They’re used in recipes for everything from coffee and ice cream to potatoes and everything in-between.

Not a big fan of porridge myself but I love pumpkin seeds baked in the oven with ocean salt. I have loved it since I was a kid, and even now I still look forward to it. I only let myself have it once a year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a very old pioneer recipe. I’ve made these for my family in autumn for years. You can also use those small “decorative” pumpkins, for a really fun personal pumpkin treat!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m partial to the nursery rhyme about the pumpkin eating cuckold who cooked his adulterous wife inside a pumpkin.

Put her in a pumpkin shell,
and there he kept her very well.

By: Bill H.

Bill H. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hear, hear! I’m always looking for the next best oatmeal! Out with it, Doctorow!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I gotta try this!

We started growing pumpkins quite by accident a few years ago. We had purchased some pumpkins for decorative purposes on our front porch. After a while they rotted, so we tossed the remains in back of our house to compost. Next thing we knew, we had pumpkin vines all over our vegetable garden. Each year, we harvest ten to fifteen pumpkins.

We enjoy them all ways, skin and all: baked in pies, simmered in water stovetop, made into pumpkin pudding (just add condensed milk to soft-boiled pumpkin). And the seeds are delicious oven-baked with some sea salt.

What amazes me is how many folks think of pumpkins purely for halloween decoration. They display them, then throw them away without bothering to eat them.

By: Sapa

Sapa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m going to do this it’s a brilliant idea

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pretty sure I heard about this on Richard Herring’s As It Occurs To Me podcast.

By: hipdadiddy

hipdadiddy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Guuhhh.

Hate to be a hater, butâ€¦ Makes a handy package for dumping into the disposal, I’ll give it that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Get a small slow cooker and dump your oatmeal and water in the night before. Your oatmeal will be ready when you wake up.

By: MrMastadon

MrMastadon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Come on now Cory. You don’t really think you can get away with mentioning you have a special oatmeal recipe without posting it do you? Please don’t make me beg…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We love steel-cut oatmeal too. Did you know you can cook up a huge batch and then reheat servings as needed in the microwave?

By: PrettyBoyTim

PrettyBoyTim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hoist on my own petard!

By: cjp

cjp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m with you. Reminds me that it’s a great idea to hollow out pumpkins like this for my Hallowe’en bash. You know, just in case someone get queasy on all that candy.

By: gerta

gerta — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stuffing a pumpkin with cheese is the bee's knees: recipe here.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I gather discarded Halloween pumpkins, chop them up, bake them, and feed them to my dog. She digs the stuff.

I like oatmeal. I might just have to try out this notion.

By: PrettyBoyTim

PrettyBoyTim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

375Â°F is roughly 190Â°C, for all of us sensible folks who prefer SI units…

By: MauiMaker

MauiMaker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sounds good, but i dont know about all the prep time and another 45 min cooking, plus cool down, etc. I want my oatmeal NOW!!

Simple twist on regular oatmeal I found one day when I discovered I was out of milk – after cooking up a big batch…. Use Cranberry (or cran/raspberry, etc) instead of milk. It sounds weird, but its very tasty!

By: Zadaz

Zadaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The day I realized you could actually -eat- pumpkins rather than use them for art was a revolutionary day in my life. Damn they’re tasty. (Need to write up my pumpkin curry recipe soon.) They’re so frikking tasty that I want to make and eat this despite being unable to have a spoonful of porridge in my mouth without feeling ill. That stuff is entirely the wrong texture.

PrettyBoyTim: If you’re going to be pedantic, the SI conversion for 375F is 463.705556 Kelvin, not Celsius.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

PrettyBoyTim: There is nothing ‘sensible’ about using SI units
for everyday use – the Imperial System has been perfectly adequate and acceptable for hundreds of years. Leave the SI system to scientists and engineers where it should be used and
where it was originally conceived.

PS: My background is in Physics/Astronomy so I know the benefits of using both systems in their respective fields.