Beyond Pumpkin Pie
By: Nancy | October 23, 2008 | Category: Home and Family
Our Kids.gov manager Arlene shared her fantastic apple pie recipe with us in the comments section of my birthday post last week. And that got me to thinking: The apple pie's all gone and now I'm craving pumpkin. 
So for fun I did a search on USA.gov for pumpkin recipes and was not disappointed by what I found among federal, state and local government and nonprofit websites. So for your culinary pleasure, here are some of my favorite discoveries:
Think pumpkin and you probably think "pie." You can get the standard recipe on any can of pureed pumpkin. But here are two new ones to try:
- Pineapple pumpkin pie, a diabetic-friendly recipe from South Dakota's Department of Health. With just two tablespoons of sugar in the crust and two more in the filling, the pineapple and juice make up for the rest of the sweetness.
- Crunchy pumpkin pie from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. It's made with skim milk and just a bit of oil in the crust. The crunch is right there in the crust, full of oats and almonds.
If you have celiac disease and can't tolerate—or don't want to use—regular flour, Ohio State University's extension department suggests harvest pumpkin bars, using soy flour for the crust.
Pumpkin cheesecake from South Carolina? That sounds good about now, as do pumpkin orange cookies from Alabama's Tallapoosa County Extension Office.
Kids get such a kick out of cooking. How about saving the seeds from their jack-o-lanterns and toasting them up with one of the creative mix-ins suggested by the kids in Michigan's Saranac Community School District?
Pumpkin's good for more than just desserts. The Vegetarian Resource Group offers recipes for pumpkin and lentils, stuffed pumpkins and more. I've hollowed out pumpkins but never filled them!
In the mood for something light, like soup? King County, Washington has a spiced pumpkin soup recipe and my home base, the state of New Jersey has pumpkin bread and pumpkin-mushroom soup recipes for you to try.
Aiming to eat not so light? Take a peek at the Pentagon Channel's pumpkin and sweet Italian sausage fettuccine. Yes sir, that's good eating!
Which of these recipes are you tempted to try?
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