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

[bluemeridian]

I wish I liked pickles more, considering people will pickle anything and it is the sort of thing that keeps well! Sadly, I barely eat cucumber sweet pickles, let alone pumpkin.

Freezing is what I'll be doing with my pumpkin at some point. I cut it up, roast it until it's soft, puree it in the food processor, and freeze it in containers. It keeps really well that way so you should be fine. :)

[ratcreature]

Yes, that's what I did tonight, roasted and then pureed it.

I like cucumbers pickled, and I also eat the pickled salad thing where you have root vegetables in juliennes (like carrots and celery root) pickled, but that's about it. Some things that are pickled I've never even tried, like pickled eggs.