a pumpkin related question

[ratcreature]

Can you freeze pureed pumpkin okay? Because buying a whole pumpkin is much cheaper than buying pumpkin segments per kilo, I now have to deal with something of a pumpkin surplus, and it would be convenient if it was possible to freeze it in manageable portions once I pureed it. Last year when I bought a whole pumpkin I just had two very much pumpkin-themed weeks, but this year I'm wondering whether I couldn't freeze some. (I don't use my freezer much beyond storing vegetables I bought frozen, so I have no experience with freezing fresh vegetables.) I like pumpkin pie, and also soup and such, but not necessarily all pumpkin all week, and you can't buy pureed pumpkin in cans here (at least I have yet to see it offered anywhere), so if it froze well, that would solve two problems.

Also, I need to dust more diligently (or at all really *embarrassed look*). I'm working on a painting and dust motes keep sticking to my wet paint. Yikes.

Comments

[kyriacarlisle]

Here via network as well - yes, absolutely: all the winter squashes are very freezable. If you ever eat pumpkin or squash in chunks, those will freeze, too; start by freezing them on a cookie sheet or plate, then bag them (so they'll stay separate).

[ratcreature]

I rarely eat it in chunks, and my freezer isn't very roomy (really just a freezer box below the fridge), so I think I'll stick to pureed pumpkin in bags, but it's good to know that it freezes okay.