What to do with that leftover pumpkin?

First of all, you scrape out the seeds (with their amazingly sticky goo) and wonder what you can do with them. Strung on strong thread or elastic, they can make good necklaces or bracelets but they are also good to eat (roasted, shelled and, maybe, salted or included in a whole-food mueseli or bread or salad). You can, of course, always save the best of them for next year and start your own pumpkin patch (if you have enough land). Each seed could pay for itself a hundred fold. Then there's the flesh which is somewhat sweet and rather insipid. Not as much character as a melon or as much goodness as a sweet potato. Still, it can make pies and soup and roasted in chunks is good with turkey or other things. Finally, the shell. Dried, it becomes quite hard. Difficult to find a use for it but, in many countries dried gourds are used for containers, spoons, dishes and many other things (including musical instruments). They might make good knee-pads and helmets for skateboarders or footballers! If nothing else, you should be sorting your trash into 'compostable','recyclable' - glass, plastic, paper - and 'landfill'. Pumpkins really belong in the first catagory. If you don't have a compost bin yourself (or a garden on which to use it), your local council ought to have a scheme for such things. Recycling and re-use are very much up-coming things. If such a mentality hasn't reached your neighborhood yet, maybe people need to be awakened!

How about making pumpkin soup/pie etc. Or slice it into slices with the skin on it and hang it up for the birds to eat

Make a lemon pie or an apple pie instead. I have no idea what you can do with it, other then put it in the compost and watch it rot away. Who knows, you may have seeds left and will be growing pumpkins next year. Oh no! NOW you will have more gourds to contend with. Pumpkin seeds are quite good for you from what I heard. And you could use the pulp for something other then pumpkin pie. I do watch Rachel Ray and she had some good ideas.

I dun understand what's so nice about pumpkins that most ple will like about it?? lol =D I personally dun like pumpkin, for its taste and smell, but i do like the look of it.. lol =D PLus, pumpkins are always so big in size, and i wonder how to most ple eat that?? hehe But why would pumpkin stink?? Please enlightened me.. lol

Some people take the seeds out for roasting. I hear they are tasty. But I can't say for myself. Never had them. In general, my left over pumpkin hits the garbage soon after the holiday.

My mom has a farm so I give the old pumpkins to her and she feeds them to her animals. Before, I use to just put them at the end of my property and let them rot or whatever wild life I have would eat it.

Well if it was rotting that is the best place for it, the trash but if it was good and showed no signs of rotting then maybe you could have cubed it and froze it and then you would be able to make pumpkin bread which is yummy!a pumpkin cheesecake,or pies at a later date.

I usually keep mine until it gets mushy then put it in the compost. The squirrels and other wildlife like it, and I usually get some volunteer plants there next year. I think I remember you travel so that is not much good for you. You can cut the top out, come Thanksgiving, and scoop out the seeds to bake.Put a block of Oasis floral foam down in it, and fill it with flowers for a centerpiece. Cook the pumpking and peel it and use in recipes.

My mother has a wonderful recipe for pumpkin muffins. She has it, I don't. Whenever we had leftover pumpkin, she'd make some really delicious pumpkin muffins that we all loved.

When we get a Halloween pumpkin, instead of carving it, we just paint the face on, and then afterwards cook it up for pumplin pie. One medium pumpkin has enough pulp to make about 3 delicious pies.

We throw our in the garden and they break up/break down over the winter and act as fertilizer in the garden the next year. My boyfriend tends to take them out into the bush and go use them for target practice.

Well, you could do what my husband is doing... ignoring it! We have 3 huge jack-o-lanterns out front, slowing becoming flatter and flatter. It got kind of warm here yesterday and they started to stink! Luckily, it's colder again and we can't smell them, but geesh! Hubby SAID he'd take care of them! Looks like I'll be doing it. Maybe I'll just scoop them up and put them in his truck so he can take them right to the dump. I'm SURE he'll do that A.S.A.P. because they'll be stinking up his truck until he does! I guess next year it would be wise to cut them up before they start to decompose and get rid of the pieces as soon as you can. Even cutting them up and throwing them in a compost bin would at least be a constructive thing to do with them. (Just make sure there are no seeds left in them or you'll have pumpkins growing out of the compost bin!) If you're just going to throw them away, I'd put the cut up pieces in small plastic bags first... tie the bags up tight! THEN put them in with the other trash. That way, they won't stink up the place so bad. Good luck!

I think it would make excellent compost, gfp. You could bury it in the ground and let it decompose! At least that way it wouldn't be stinking up your garbage, and would be going back to the earth from which it came. Rotting pumpkins sure do attract a lot of insects!

Put it into a soup, like chicken or beef and vegetable. I love soups with pumkin in them, but this Halloween I didn't even buy a pumpkin.