You Can’t Always Get What You Want

I’ve been having so many successes in the kitchen lately, I guess this was bound to happen.

So, as you know, I’ve been sick. And this weekend, Sailor Boy has come down with my illness as well, so we spent most of today coughing in harmony and wanting to go back to bed. Poor Rio. Now she’s got two sick parents who do not want to take her out on walks. But I bought these two pumpkins to make pumpkin puree with, so I thought, I’ll just do this really quickly and it will be fine. So I threw on a DVD, cut up the pumpkins, cleaned out the seeds, and put them in the oven while we had breakfast. But as soon as breakfast was over, I knew I needed to go back to bed. So once the timer on the pumpkins dinged, I took them out and thought, I’ll do the scraping and the mashing later.

Right?

Wrong. Just so you know — if you don’t scrape and mash roasted pumpkins right after they get out of the oven, in a few hours they will be cold, dried up pumpkin husks. What a disaster. The last time I did this, the puree turned out great, so it’s not the recipe (though I’ve had some seriously bad luck with Pioneer Woman recipes recently — or maybe i just don’t like winter squash — because I don’t like either her butternut squash puree OR her baked acorn squash recipe and usually I’m a big PW fan).

Bleh. I hate to waste pumpkins. At least I’ve still got the seeds.