Pumpkins!

Who doesn't love this time of year?!  Pumpkins, Halloween, Scarecrows, Vineyard visits on cool sunny days with friends, Thanksgiving around the corner!  


Wanted to share with you some interesting stuff I found on a the varieties of PUMPKINS!  Last week I sat with 2 friends of mine (Jack & Lucy, 5th graders) and we carved pumpkins.  We had a blast, cleaning and gutting them, rinsing the seeds, and baking them.  It was all so much fun, and the pumpkin faces came out awesome!  I saw them again a few days later and they had a new pumpkin at their house, a grey one!  It was so neat looking that I wanted to learn more about all the different varieties....THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS!  The source I used was, http://www.hauntedbay.com/thelab/pumpkin/pumpkinvarieties.shtml  I found this site the most useful off my basic pumpkin variety search because of all the pictures they included.


Here's the scoop on the grey pumpkin they had:

Jarrahdale
(Ghirardelli)

Flattened like Cinderella but with a light blue/grey color. Deeply ribbed. This pumpkin is an Australian heirloom variety and was developed as a cross between the Blue Hubbard and the Cindarella. The flesh is golden yellow with a mild, only slightly sweet, flavor. Some say this is the best pumpkin for pumpkin pies.

I was fascinated when I read that it was the best for pumpkin pies!  Who knew?!

There's also,  WHITE pumpkins!  These include, Baby Boo, Casper, Lumina, and White Ghost.  The whites are generally not recommended for cooking, more for decoration, with the exception of the White Ghost.  The whites though are more for decorating and/or painting.  Their skin is extra thick as compared to your typical orange pumpkin so their not the ideal carvers.

Happy Fall! :D