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WHat do you mean?

could I boit them then fry then?

Could I make alternative shepheards pie?

pumpkin mash, that sort of thing

I think boiling would add too much liquid were you to then fry.

Whatever floats your boat, Evil One.

Boil them, then fry them if you like.
Weirder things than that are done every day.
There are people who fry tofu.
There are people who put batter around a scoop
of ice cream, and then drop it into hot oil momentarily,
for a baked Alaska.
The strangest, to my mind, is the boiling of miscellaneous
scraps of meat in broth until it congeals, then frying
slices of it. This is called scrapple, and Philadelphia
is famous (infamous?) for it.

I thought scrapple was more of a southern dish? and that it had lots of fat in it, with cornmeal to sort of thicken the whole mess up so that it would be solid enough to slice?

Maybe they do it differently in Philly...

I was using a scrapple recipe from Paul Prudhomme's
cookbook of regional American dishes. Prudhomme
gave Philadelphia as the place where scrapple was popular.
Yes, cornmeal and fat are probably present in ample
supply in the recipe.

My Mom has made a lovely pumpkin soup. She has actually grown her own pumpkins down on Bequia by planting seeds the year before! Nice to have your own harvest on a Caribbean island!

I love growing !

I tried growing pumpkins, but the at them!

damn them fiendish squirels!

scrapple

Are you sure they were squirrels, Mr. C.?
I've never known squirrels to bother pumpkins.
Mice and rats (and maybe groundhogs) are happy
to molest pumpkins and pumpkin vines, but not squirrels.

I've seen squirrels inside pumpkins nibbling away ...

They seem willing to eat just about anything that they can chew... Were they eating the pumpkin meat, or the seeds?

lucky things!

If there were squirrels inside the pumpkins,
they were probably after the seeds.

But they're certainly not averse to chewing up electric wires either.

I experimented with growing the pumpkins on a trellis (and it works!). The squirels gnawed the stems so that the pumpkins fell and broke open on the slate path. Then they ate the seeds. I figured it out when I was walking past the window and saw a pumpkin fall and the flick of a gray tail.

Stupid rodents. They eat French Fries in Denver too!!!!

They're just mad here!

Pumpkins on a trellis!
I'm impressed Mr C!