11/06/2015

Frozen pumpkin crescents

At the first sign of our belated fall, I went on a cooking binge. I made ground turkey and black bean taco filling in the crockpot to freeze. Then potato soup with a couple little turnips for tang, mushrooms for earthiness, and celery because Grandma said so. Most of that went into the freezer, too. A gardener's gift prompted a big batch of eggplants stuffed with lentils and almonds, but I was running out of Rubbermaid storage containers. The two dozen eggrolls had to be frozen in Ziplock bags, and the parmesan chicken casserole got shoved to the way-way back.

All good. Ready for the blizzard of '88.

But now I'm gutting the pumpkins left from autumnal decor for a work event. I need the seeds for an upcoming family nature craft session, and also crescents of pumpkin shell, Peter Peter. So far four 13-gallon bags of pumpkin shell crescents are wedged into the freezer. Three more pumpkins are out in the waiting room filling out paperwork before surgery.

So, if you are looking for Poppin' Fresh pumpkin crescents, you have reached the wrong site. If you want to wish the Pillsbury Doughboy a welcome-to-AARP happy birthday, check here.


 




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3 comments:

seana graham said...

That's a cool idea about the bird feeders. It's funny that I just read another reuse pumpkins idea here, which was a solicitation by a local state park called Wilder Ranch to bring your used and even slightly rotting pumpkins by, as they make great food for their goats, cows, sheep and chickens. I'm glad to hear of ways to reuse all those jack-o'-lanterns.

Collagemama said...

Just FYI, freezing the pumpkin pieces did not work at all.

seana graham said...

Good to know.