A couple of days ago Josf, our neighbour who has an allotment, gave us a present of this huge chunk of pumpkin (it weighed in a 4.5 kilos). Three days later, while I was still looking at it my fellow blogger Caroline at Bibliocook (www.bibliocook.com) put out a recipe for a Spiced Pumpkin Soup. Heartened I told her I was going to give it a try. She suggested that I should make some Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese Topping with the remainder (a recipe she had put up in her blog about a week ago. Nothing ventured…………

First job was to cube all the pumpkin, peel it and roast it in a hot oven for 40 mts.

The soup, spiced with cumin, turmeric,coriander and garam masala was a real winner

The Muffins were also excellent, (this time spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg (in France known as Quatre Epices)

And they were even better iced, (although I did have a bit left over)

Thanks Caroline. Both recipes are on her site.
www.bibliocook.com.