Is Squash a Fruit orVegetable?How toDistinguish Squash Types You Didn't?
Fall decorating is in full swing now that October is here.I love decorating my house with pumpkins, leaves, and fall flowers.Every year, my husband and I take our daughter to buy pumpkins on the first cool weekend of fall.
When I went to the grocery store this week, I found a lot of fun and funky pumpkins for sale.Can pumpkins and squash be eaten?If you cooked a pumpkin, what would happen?
The process is safe and delicious for most of the time.If you follow a few basic rules, you can eat almost any squash or pumpkin.You can prepare some of the squash you run across here.
The pumpkin is called a fairytale because it looks like a pumpkin coach.The pumpkins are sweeter than your standard carving pumpkin.They would make delicious pumpkin pies.Cook this pumpkin by quartering it, placing it on a cookie sheet, and cooking it in the oven for one hour.
Miniature pumpkins can be eaten.As they age, the pumpkins will grow bitter.If you want to get the best results, eat the pumpkins within two or three weeks.If you want to make a winter side dish, cut them up and cook them in the oven.
Squash with a few extra bumps, colors, and strange shapes is called a Decorative Squash.Check the exterior skin texture before buying squash.The skin might be a gourd.Gourds are bitter and not very appetizing.The squash has soft skins like traditional squash.
There is no difference between strange-looking pumpkins and the traditional pumpkin, and you can cook them just like regular pumpkins.Cut the pumpkins into pieces and cook them for a side dish.You can cut the pumpkin in half or quarters and bake them in the oven.Place the pieces on a cookie sheet and bake them for an hour.Adding butter and seasonings to a pumpkin puree will make it taste better.
There are a few things you need to watch out for.Children should not put squash or pumpkins in their mouths before washing them.Farmers use pesticides on their skin.Don't buy pumpkins that are too shiny to eat.Farmers add wax to pumpkins to make them look better.If you keep pumpkins out for more than a few weeks, they will rot quickly.Within a few days, your pumpkin can turn into a stinky mess.
Thanks!I don't like buying food and not eating it.I can decorate and then eat them.It's a good thing!
I took from your statement that there must be a few that aren't really good and those that fall outside of the "most" category just really bad tasting.It's a good thing.
How would one identify a squash?I found an enormous squash plant growing in my forest, but I don't know what variety it is.
If you want to see which matches best, look through seed catalogs.Since your squash was wild, it could be an heirloom squash, so don't forget the heirloom seed providers and Seed Savers.
If you want to plant a squash from the seeds, you should remove a few before cooking.People forget that cooking kills seeds.Just rinse the ones you want to keep, dry them off with a paper towel, then store them.
I wish I had done that with the turban squash I bought.The suckers are EXPENSIVE.I roasted the whole thing after forgetting.I don't think so.
My husband found a new looking plant in the garden that he didn't plant.I knew what the bounty was when I saw it.There are pumpkins and squash.They grew on their on after someone threw out some last fall.I picked a full bucket.They are all shapes, sizes and colors.Some are squash and some are pumpkins.How do I save them until fall?It is still July.Is it possible to dry them in the sun?I want to be able to give away some of them.Any suggestions?
Thanks for clearing up a lot for me, I took several websites to find some that were similar to common sence.
Pumpkins are toxic if they taste bitter and can kill you.Be careful.
A tiny pumpkin was purchased last year.I have small seeds on the vine.How do I know if it is a vegetable?
I am not a boy special of the pumpkin in a white specialty pumpkin so big and November and can I cut them now that it is March and cook them?