towards the end of summer all carefully cultivated and even the not-so-well-tended plots are yielding their bountiful harvests...I am proud to present our firstborn french pumpkin..."Jaune gros de Paris" - all glowing buttery roundness in his full perfection...the promise of "très beau fruit rond, très côtelé, aplati, écorce brun orangé, chair jaune" on the seed package when I chose it at the marché aux fleurs on the Ile de la Cité has been fulfilled!
I could have left him in our jardin potager a little longer to grow larger but he had actually tried to run away and was found hanging precariously on the other side of the back wall [and in fact his brother has sneaked right through the other fence to live secretly in the neighbour's garden where he is getting quite enormous!] but we decided that this is a good size to perform certain culinary experiments on...
he sat happily on display to admiring human eyes for a few days on our dining table... and then it was time...
I reluctantly cut into him, quartered one half, scooped out all his seeds and stringy pulp and baked the pieces flesh up - [the other half I baked flesh down, draining off more pumpkin juice!] - and when the pieces had cooled, I spooned out the mushy yellow flesh, to be used in various recipes...
so far, my simple pumpkin crêpes have been quite delicious, especially with some confiture d'abricots!
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