Pumpkin Heaven

1 pumpkin

                

÷ into 3 chucks

- 6 hours (of my life)

= 26 cups pumpkin puree

(this is just 6 bags of about 15; two cups per bag)
with endless possibilities and recipes :)
be excited with me...

So if you haven't figured it out already. I spend 6 hours one night chopping up and roasting the HUGE pumpkin my grandfather gave Amber and I from his garden. With great gratitude, Amber was very helpful when I needed it. She did some carving, baking, and blending to help move the process along. Although it was very time consuming and made the whole apartment smell like pumpkin, I enjoyed myself. We ended up with a freezer full of pumpkin puree that I have slowly been using in new recipes that will be posted soon. To my roommates dismay I still have one more left to cook! Yep thats right, grandpa gave Jacob a pumpkin too!! and I get to cook it! 

Here are some photo's of the night: 

I started off by chopping and removing the seeds of the pumpkin.
I did this in three different chunks because the whole pumpkin wouldn't fit in the oven at once.

Next I took one of the thirds and cut that into four pieces. 

Those pieces then went in the oven at 400 degrees for about 40ish minutes. 

 I then pulled them out of the oven and peeled the skin off.

Along with peeling the skin off I had to pull out any veins and cut of any dried or burnt edges.

I then pureed the pumpkin with beaters and scooped two cups into each ziplock bag to put in the fridge or freezer. 

I started at 6pm and finished at midnight. It was exhausting but tons of fun!!